Mozart and money

This episode of The Mozart Minute was first published on Oct. 23, 2015 at wosu.org/classical101.Mozart's 1778 stay in Paris was pretty much a total…

It's an interesting irony – Mozart composed his Symphony No. 33 (K. 319), with its vivacious opening and beginning-to-end loveliness, before a backdrop of…

Mozart's 1778 stay in Paris was pretty much a total washout. Instead of making his name there as a composer, he was rebuffed and ignored. His mother died.…

In February 1783, Mozart was a happy newlywed, an expectant father and a brilliant composer in the dawn of what he knew could be an illustrious career. In…

The angel of death visited Mozart in December 1791. Then the angel of debt besieged Mozart's widow for years to come.Mozart's sudden and untimely death…

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be," said Polonius to his young adult son, Laertes, in Shakespeare's Hamlet.Personalities being what they are, Mozart was…