Mozart’s Symphony No. 36, known as the “Linz,” was tossed off in four days in 1783 when the 27-year-old composer arrived in the Austrian city and needed a new piece for his host, Count Thun-Hohenstein ...

Building a Library: Richard Wigmore compares recordings of Mozart's Symphony No. 36 in C major, K425, known as the Linz Symphony, which was written in just four days during the Mozarts' stopover in ...

Richard Wigmore compares recordings of Mozart's Symphony No. 36 in C major, K425, known as the Linz Symphony, which was written in just four days during the Mozarts' stopover in the Austrian town of ...

After a trip to Salzburg to introduce his newlywed wife to his father (which did NOT go well), Mozart returned to Vienna and along the way made a stopover in Linz, Austria, where he wrote a new ...

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Now that concert halls around Singapore are setting the stage for the return of live performances, music lovers can mark their calendars for physical concerts once again. Fans of classical music can ...

For those who know it, Padua probably conjures up images of the vast Basilica di Sant’Antonio – place of pilgrimage to the saint’s tomb (and, for that matter, his preserved vocal cords) – or one of ...

Symphony No. 35, "Haffner" Il Pomo d'Oro Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 Il Pomo d'Oro Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor Symphony No. 36, "Linz" Il Pomo d'Oro Maxim ...