6). To make his portrait of 18th-Century Composer Mozart accurate, Critic Turner pondered anew the numerous letters of the Mozart family. When the portrait was finished, it showed Mozart ...

It’s not just Mozart’s music that’s dramatic: It’s his letters, too. At age 26, the legendary composer wrote to his close friend Baroness von Waldstätten to say that he will need to get ...

A long-lost letter by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been found in the archives of a prominent French family. Unlike the new piece of Mozart music that recently turned up, this handwritten note ...

Of the more than 700 handwritten Mozart family letters that have been preserved, just fragments of a handful of her letters remain. Letter writing was expensive, so they used as little paper as ...

Letters had to be written home. By the time he was 20, Mozart had spent half his life on the road. The letters home—Wolfgang’s own or his appendices to his father Leopold’s sober accounts of ...

The thrill of uncovering something long thought lost has a certain magic. Whether it’s a rare artifact, a piece of forgotten history, or even an artistic treasure, the discovery can reignite ...

A letter showing Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a "complete panic" over his love life is set to go up for auction at Christie's in London next month. Written by the composer in the ...

LONDON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - A military letter from King Henry VIII and a sheet of music written in Mozart's own hand at the age of 17 are among lots being offered at auction house Christie's ...

A letter showing Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a “complete panic” over his love life is set to go up for auction at Christie’s in London next month. Written by the composer in ...