Curated playlist
Mozart scholars
- Friedrich SchlichtegrollMozart's first biographer never met him. Friedrich Schlichtegroll published it in 1793, two years after Mozart died.
- Biographies of MozartTwo scholars dated Mozart's manuscripts by handwriting and by paper watermarks. Their results nearly always agreed.
- Cliff EisenCliff Eisen studies where Leopold Mozart's works end and his son Wolfgang's begin.
- Daniel HeartzDaniel Heartz devoted a 1969 book to Pierre Attaingnant, a French Royal Printer of Music.
- Franz Xaver NiemetschekFranz Xaver Niemetschek wrote the first full-length Mozart biography, yet may never have met him.
- Neue Mozart-AusgabeOne editor of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe used a pre-war photograph because a Mozart manuscript was out of reach.
- Stanley SadieStanley Sadie grew a nine-volume music dictionary into twenty volumes. The 1980 result needed a new name: The New Grove.
- Simon P. KeefeSimon P. Keefe wrote four Mozart books on his own between 2001 and 2017. He also edited eight more volumes.
- Alfred EinsteinAlfred Einstein said Mozart's last three symphonies were never played in his lifetime. Later evidence showed otherwise.
- Hermann DeitersHermann Deiters translated a Beethoven biography into German before it existed in English.
- Otto JahnOtto Jahn gave away his entire Mozart manuscript collection. It went to Ludwig von Köchel for his catalogue.
- Charles RosenPianist Charles Rosen wrote his first book because a record sleeve note embarrassed him. It won a National Book Award.
- Georg Nikolaus von NissenA Salzburg tombstone calls Georg Nikolaus von Nissen only "The husband of Mozart's widow."
- Ludwig Ritter von KöchelThe KV in Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, KV 551, stands for Köchel-Verzeichnis.