The subversive practice of a canonical composer.
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He was falsely cast as Mozart’s murderer and music’s sorest loser. Now he’s getting a fresh hearing.
Turns out Mozart’s middle name and popular moniker, Amadeus, might have originated as a joke. Here’s the back story.
When the Canadian Opera Company opened the doors to its new opera house in 2006, the gala concert included “Ode to Joy,” the last movement from Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.
Author looks at 70 composers from Beethoven to Britten, also dismissing alcoholism claims
On a cold Berkeley morning early in December 1968, I cut class and joined a queue on Telegraph Avenue, waiting for Discount Records to open. The line wasn’t as long as the one I’d joined for the Beatles’ White Album