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 entered the world on the 21st of January 1952 in Toronto. This Canadian musicologist began his formal education at the University of Toronto…
- Daniel HeartzDaniel Heartz entered the world on the 5th of October 1928. He grew up in a time that would shape his future approach to music history.
- 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-AusgabeThe Neue Mozart-Ausgabe began its life in 1956 when Bärenreiter-Verlag published the first volume. This massive project continued until 2007, spanning over…
- 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 was born on the 24th of December 1968 in Leicester. His path through higher education took him from Cambridge to Boston University and…
- 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 Rosen was born in New York City on the 5th of May 1927. His father Irwin Rosen worked as an architect while his mother Anita Rosen acted and played…
- 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…