Mozart is Music

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Mozart is the musical Christ. Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music. I find consolation and rest in Mozart’s music, wherein he gives expression to that joy of life which was part of his sane and wholesome temperament. Ludwig van Beethoven I have [...]

Preclassical

There was a time when silence was heard, when trees were in harmony with the grass and the song of flowers, when the afternoons were gardens of fragrances and twilights threaded their velvety harps near to the weary eyelids of the day, when the moment lasted an eternity and the longing, the reverie, the melancholy would [...]

Mozart Magnus

Mozart Magnus – Wolfgang Amadé Mozart‘s Official Weblog. „Really? Shocking! Unbelievable! Surely not! Cannot be! It’s not possible! I’m humbled! Grateful! Excited!  Thank you! I bow!” A winsome bow from our part, Herr Mozart! Alas, we seem to have arrived too late to talk to you, ask you a question, or more… and we have [...]

Mozart Forever – Nexus Radio

Nexus Radio - an excellent online radio, offering auditions from the works of the great classics: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, wonderful musical parts that can be recorded by the listeners! Nexus Radio is an application which allows access to over 11.000 radio stations in the world and more than 15.000.000 songs of the most diverse genres. From [...]

Dreaming with Schubert

Reverie, sensibility, contemplation have disappeared from our time… From our century, poets and composers have vanished, together with the sublime music and the poetry as pure state of the creative spirit… This is why we keep returning, again and again, to the musical soul of the times in which sensibility and human spirit were not [...]

200 years since the birth of Robert Schumann

The passing of time makes us lose touch with the purity of the great creators. On June 8th the world celebrates 200 years since the birth of one of music’s most wonderful children: Robert Schumann. Unfortunately, the lives of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann have barely overrun 100 years… Wolferl has lived 35 years. The delicate Schubert 34. [...]

Happy Birthday, Dan Iordachescu, at 8o years!

Happy Birthday, Dan Iordachescu, for the 80th anniversary, on June 2nd!  The baritone with a golden voice, extraordinary sensibility and exceptional musical intelligence, a thorough stylist and interpreter, the artist who has “one of the finest baritone voices in the world”, as Kenneth Wright from the BBC London said in 1967, while Hannoversche Presse wrote, [...]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, humanity’s most wonderful child!

If you read his Letters, Mozart will be your friend for life; his kind face will show itself in moments of trouble, and when you are miserable you will hear his merry boyish laugh and blush to give way to dark moods as you think of what he himself so courageously endured. Let us recall his [...]