As well as the Walter instrument, Mozart used a piano by Franz Jakob Späth, but we know from a well-known letter to his father Leopold, of 17 October 1777, that Mozart's favourite instrument at ...

New research may have revealed what Mozart really looked like, using cutting-edge facial reconstruction technology based on the composer’s skull. A team of scientists might just have solved one of the ...

So Mozart had to write a new aria — “Al desio ... a stately processional with a dark timbre that foregrounds low wind instruments — contrabassoon and a kind of low clarinet known as a ...

Pianos from the time of Beethoven and Mozart form part of a collection here that was lovingly put together by a piano tuner ...