Mozart Archive

No composer understood wind instruments better than Mozart, so the solo lines in the Sinfonia Concertante are composed with a fine feeling for their special qualities: the oboe’s expressive, penetrating voice; the clarinet’s liquid fluency …

In the tightly constructed opening movement of the Trio KV 502, everything is based on a single theme—a very Haydnesque procedure but not so often a Mozartian one. It’s a lighthearted, rather nonchalant melody. (A …

The Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, was completed on 9 March 1785 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The concerto has three movements: I. Allegro maestoso – In common time. The tempo marking …

Mozart completed Piano Concerto No. 27 on January 5, 1791, during the last year of his life. It was his last piano concerto and his last public performance. Overall, this concerto utilizes a basic musical …

When Mozart’s Requiem in D minor was completed in 1792, it was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg. He was the man who originally commissioned the piece to form part of a Requiem service in …