Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is not unusual for musicians to talk about their instruments as though they were temperamental spouses. But ...

The violin and viola that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played himself are in the United States for the first time ever. The instruments come out of storage only about once a year at the Salzburg Mozarteum ...

Mozart never made it to America: getting seasick crossing the English Channel put an end to any of his seafaring fantasies. But America was frequently on Mozart's mind. In fact, his closest ...

A rare violin believed to have belonged to Mozart during his Vienna years has been presented in Türkiye for the first time.

Christoph Koncz has used gut-stringed baroque instrument to record Mozart’s violin concertos When he first dared ask the keepers of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s violin if he might be allowed to try it ...

Jordan Hall was packed on Monday night for the first mainstage concert of the Boston Early Music Festival, an evening of Mozart’s chamber music. The performers were all accomplished period instrument ...

Mozart wrote five violin concertos, all but one of them in the same year—1775, when he was nineteen. The Concerto No. 1 was written two years before, possibly. Musicologists are unsure. Are they great ...

Playing Mozart's music on Mozart's own violin is like reaching through 250 years of history to commune with the legendary composer, says Christoph Koncz. Koncz, the principal second violinist of the ...

What’s the difference between a viola and a trampoline? You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline. Those damn viola jokes! Though usually good-natured and funny, they nonetheless belittle a ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 Bruno Weil, Conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Lena Neudauer, Violin German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern Concerto for Violin ...

Nine-year-old Freya Chen, a violinist, is one of the youngest students at Juilliard Pre-College. The instrument she currently plays is a half-size, which led her to a unique opportunity: to perform on ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1, Movements: Allegro moderato Kremerata Baltica Gidon Kremer, Violin Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 4, Movements: ...