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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Throughout the three pieces, the musicians masterfully used dynamics, balance, and style to create a truly electric ...

The Suzuki method meets Mozart and Canada goes classical with the latest CD releases. There is even a touch of the TodiFest. Violinist Takako Nishizaki, long a staple on the Naxos label, is the ...

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 ...

How do you transport the priceless violin that Mozart used to compose his many masterpieces? Pop it in your hand luggage, apparently! We’re told that music philanthropist Marife Hernandez hosted a ...

Next week, an outstanding new recording of the complete Mozart violin concertos hits the shops. Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer is joined by Kremerata Baltica – an ensemble he founded – and Simon Bates ...

Joshua Kosman is the Chronicle’s former classical music critic. He retired in 2024, after covering classical music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1988, reviewing and reporting on the wealth of ...

The violin that Mozart used as a child left today for a state visit by Austrian government members to China, where a seven-year-old girl will play it for President Xi Jinping. "#Music is a common ...