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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Violin Sonatas Nos 17 - 28 Renaud Capuçon, Violin Kit Armstrong, Piano Variations, '(La) bergère Célimène' Renaud Capuçon, Violin Kit Armstrong, Piano (6) Variations, 'Hélas, j'ai perdu mon amant' ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sonata for Keyboard and Violin No. 6 Alina Ibragimova, Violin Cédric Tiberghien, Piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Sonata for Keyboard and Violin No. 7 Cédric Tiberghien, Piano Wolfgang Amadeus ...

It is hard for Mozart’s violin concertos to win attention for themselves, living as they do in the gigantic shadow cast by Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Mozart’s own sublime Sinfonia Concertante for ...

A private benefactor has gifted a violin played by Mozart when he was in Vienna to the Salzburg Mozart Foundation. Created in 1764, the violin is thought to have been made by Venetian luthier Pietro ...

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 ...

The violin that Mozart used as a child left Austria on Friday for a state visit to China by Austrian government members. There, a seven-year-old girl will play the storied instrument for Chinese ...

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