Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Biography of Mozart
Biography of a genius who wrote his name in the history of music. Mozart was a musical maestro who had his own unique style of composing music and presenting to the world...

Sole Picture Unearthed of Composer's Widow
The newly discovered black and white image is the only photograph ever taken of Constanze Mozart, the widow of the Austrian composer and genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Mozart More of a Prince Than a Pauper
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived a solidly upper-crust life and was among the top earners in eighteenth century Vienna, a new exhibition claims.

DNA Detectives Discover More Skeletons in Mozart Family Closet
Scientists reveal results of tests on skull unearthed by Viennese gravedigger.

Mystery of Mozart's Skull Nears Solution
The century-old mystery as to whether a skull found in an Austrian basement is that of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be solved over the weekend when experts reveal the results of DNA tests.

Requiem for a Budget
Next year's celebrations in Salzburg of Mozart's 250th anniversary are likely to be drowned out by the ongoing row over the EU budget, says Nicholas Watt.

Scientists Dig Up Family Skeletons
It has been a mystery for more than a century - is a skull in an Austrian basement really that of arguably the greatest composer of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? Over the weekend a group of archaeologists began to answer the question by digging up the remains of Mozart's close...

Austria indignant as Mozart makes shortlist for best German of all time
Voting for the "best German of all time" got off to a shaky start yesterday after the Austrian ambassador to Germany complained that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose name appears on a list of eligible candidates, is Austrian.

Which Wolfgang is which?
Everyone from Hitler to Nasa has used him. As the Barbican mounts a festival of his music, Peter Conrad wonders what Mozart means now.