Curated category
Mozart scholars
- Friedrich SchlichtegrollFriedrich Schlichtegroll published the first biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1793, just two years after the composer died.
- Biographies of MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on the 5th of December 1791, aged 35, after a short illness. Within days, people who had known him began talking, writing, and…
- Cliff EisenCliff Eisen has spent decades probing a deceptively simple question. How do we know a piece of music is genuinely by the composer whose name it bears?
- Daniel HeartzDaniel Heartz was born on the 5th of October 1928, and he spent decades reshaping how scholars understand the music of eighteenth-century Europe.
- Franz Xaver NiemetschekFranz Xaver Niemetschek was born on the 24th of July 1766 in Sadská, Bohemia, into a large, musical family. He would grow up to write the first full-length…
- Neue Mozart-AusgabeH. C. Robbins Landon once insisted that the Vienna Philharmonic use the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe for a series of recordings of Mozart's symphonies.
- Stanley SadieStanley John Sadie spent the better part of three decades turning a nine-volume reference work into a twenty-volume monument that reshaped how the world…
- Simon P. KeefeSimon Patrick Keefe is an English musicologist, author, and Mozart expert. His official biography includes one unexpected detail: he is a life-long fan of…
- Alfred EinsteinAlfred Einstein was born in Munich on the 30th of December 1880, and he would spend his life navigating two worlds: the careful, evidence-bound discipline of…
- Hermann DeitersHermann Deiters entered the world on the 27th of June 1833 in Bonn. His father Peter Franz Ignaz Deiters worked as a lawyer and politician there.
- Otto JahnOtto Jahn was born in Kiel on the 16th of June 1813, into a world where the boundary between classical scholarship and musical biography had barely been…
- Charles RosenCharles Welles Rosen was born on the 5th of May, 1927, in New York City, the son of a Russian-Jewish immigrant architect and a semiprofessional actress who…
- Georg Nikolaus von NissenGeorg Nikolaus von Nissen's tombstone in Salzburg does not mention his diplomatic career or his years of research. It calls him simply "The husband of…
- Ludwig Ritter von KöchelLudwig Ritter von Köchel was born on the 14th of January 1800 in Stein, Lower Austria, and today his initials appear on nearly every piece of music Wolfgang…