Exploring Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his music all month long!
Exploring Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his music
Start off the new year with the inspiration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!
Check out what's in store!
CPR Classical Presents: Mozart and Now with the Colorado Symphony
Light the candles and cue the birthday song. Mozart turns 268 on January 27! Celebrate Wolfgang’s birthday with CPR Classical and the Colorado Symphony January 26-28 at Boettcher Concert Hall.
The Great Composers
The Great Composers dives deep into the lives behind some of the greatest music ever written. Host Karla Walker and conductor Scott O’Neil look at the world through the eyes of these gifted artists.
CPR Classical and Colorado Symphony tests your Mozart knowledge, Jeopardy-style
Think you know Mozart? Take our quiz and discover more from CPR Classical and Colorado Symphony.
Celebrate Mozart’s Birthday With A Quiz On His Life
Test your knowledge of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with this quiz!
Where did Mozart’s musical talent come from?
Where did Mozart get his musical talent? History has long pointed to his father, Leopold. Leopold was a violinist and authored an authoritative textbook on violin playing.
Mozart’s death: sorting out fact from fiction
An ancient cemetery is a good setting to sort out fact from fiction around Mozart’s death.
A party at the Mozart house included music and air rifles
Anyone with children living at home can relate to wanting more space as the family grows.
Mozart’s favorite (and only) form of transportation
Today you can travel from Salzburg to Vienna in under three hours. When the Mozart family undertook that trip, it took three weeks!
The mystery of Mozart’s C Minor Mass
The origin of Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor is somewhat of a mystery.
What nationality was Mozart? Austrian? German? Actually, neither.
What was is like to walk the streets of Salzburg when Mozart was growing up there? In the old part of the city, it’s remarkably similar.
Mozart and the American Revolution: A timeline of Mozart’s life in history
Mozart died just shy of his 36th birthday in 1791. But in his short life, he wrote a remarkable amount of music that changed the course of music history.
