See also past announcements that were featured on our homepage
- New Mozart manuscript discovered in the Bibliothèque nationale de France
- New Mozart catalogue – J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians have recently published a new illustrated online catalogue devoted exclusively to Mozart. It contains detailed descriptions of rare first and early editions of music by Mozart as well as iconography including paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and medals. The final section of the catalogue offers published facsimiles of musical manuscripts and scholarly books. (January 21, 2025)
- Neue Köchel Catalog now available – Edited by MSA honorary member Neal Zaslaw. Includes world premiere performance of newly discovered work for strings, ‘Ganz kleine Nachtmusik,’ K. 648. (November 9, 2024)
- “Sigismund Neukomm in Brazil – A Concert Commemorating the Bicentenary of Don Giovanni’s First Performance Beyond Europe, in Rio de Janeiro on 20 September 1821,” Don Juan Archiv (September 20, 2021) – includes video
- “94 Seconds of New Mozart – The Allegro in D major for Piano, K. 626b/16, is heard for the first time,” press release and video, Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation (February 10, 2021)
- “Three New Mozart Letters in Salzburg,” press release, Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation (October 16, 2020)
- “In dialogue with Mozart: composer’s violin brought back to life [Christoph Koncz records Mozart’s violin concertos on Mozart’s instrument],” The Guardian (October 9, 2020)
- “Mozart goes Mambo in Havana [Sarah Willis],” DW (Deutsche Welle) (June 26, 2020)
- Mark Swed, “The extraordinary consequence of Mozart’s love letter between violin and viola [Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364],” Los Angeles Times (September 16, 2020)
- Selina Mills, “The forgotten female composer fêted by Mozart and Haydn [Maria Theresia von Paradis],” The Spectator (September 9, 2020)
- Marcos Balter, “His Name is Joseph Boulogne, Not ‘Black Mozart’,” New York Times (July 22, 2020)
- Suanshu Khurana, “The girl who sings Mozart, in sargam [Symphony No. 40, K550],” Indian Express (July 11, 2020)
- “The Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg acquires Mozart’s rare travel letter to his wife Constanze from the Charfreÿtage [Good Friday] 1789,” press release, Mozarteum Stiftung Salzburg (April 16, 2020)
- Peter Olszewski, “On again, off again: Opera at Angkor [Mozart’s Magic Flute and the Cambodian Ramayana] on again,” Khmer Times (January 3, 2020)
- Anja-Rosa Thöming, “Musik der Herrnhuter: Vielsprachig klingt der Jubel noch süßer [Music from Herrnhut: Praise sounds sweeter in multiple languages (on Sarah Eyerly’s research into Mozart in American Moravian missions)],” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (January 1, 2020)
- “Remembering Daniel Heartz (1928-2019)” (MSA, January 2020)
- John Purser, “Scottish friends in high places: Mozart’s links to Scotland” [on Pietro Fabris 1770 portrait of Mozart at Scottish National Portrait Gallery], The National of Scotland (December 30, 2019)
- Sam Lefebvre, “Mills College to Sell Shakespeare First Folio, Mozart Manuscript Amid Budget Woes,” KQED.org (December 11, 2019)
- “A Lock of Mozart’s Hair Returns to Salzburg” [along with three original documents], press release, Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg (December 10, 2019)
- “Mozart childhood portrait sold for €4m at Paris auction,” BBC.com/news (November 28, 2019) – see Christie’s listing here
- “Early Mozart manuscript [K. 164, nos. 5-6] sold for £318,400 at Paris auction,” ClassicFM.com (November 20, 2019) – see Sotheby’s listing here
- “Mozart’s Mass in C minor [K. 427] – A new approach to a grand work, starting from the place where it had been performed for the very first time,” press release, Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg (August 5, 2019)
- Zachary Woolfe, “Who Played Mozart When He Was New? [on Hyperion recording The Jupiter Project: Mozart in the 19th-century Drawing Room],” New York Times (July 19, 2019)
- “At Salzburg Festival, Two Bold Directors Claim Their Stages [on Die Zauberflöte and Pique Dame]” – New York Times (August 12, 2018)
- “Critic’s Notebook: Lincoln Center Still Has Mostly Mozart, but What Is It?” – New York Times(August 3, 2018)
- “Franz Beyer, Who Revised Mozart’s Requiem, Is Dead at 96” – New York Times (July 26, 2018)
- “Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation presents a lost letter by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart” – press release, Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg (July 5, 2018)
- “Rolando Villazón named Artistic Director of Salzburg Mozart Week” – press release, Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg (June 30, 2018)
- “Ingmar Bergman’s Magic Flute to be released on DVD/Blu-Ray April 23” (Gramophone, March 9, 2018)
- “Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival Expands to Fill a Void” (New York Times, March 5, 2018)
- “Interlude in Prague: An exclusive look into recreating the sumptuous world of Mozart” [new film by John Stephenson] (Independent, May 9, 2017)
- “Two precious Mozart treasures for the collection” [Nannerl portrait and 1799 autograph letter]” – press release, Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg (April 20, 2017)
- “This Author [Lyanda Lynn Haupt] Gained Insight into Mozart’s Starling by Adopting Her Own” (Here and Now, April 13, 2017)
- “Review of Schikaneder by Stephen Schwartz at the Raymond Theater in Vienna” (London Theatre, January 27, 2017)
- “Mozart 225 review – all of Amadeus in one big box” – Guardian (January 1, 2017)
- “Giant 200-CD ‘Mozart 225’ Box Set is a Surprisingly Hot Seller” – Billboard (December 6, 2016)
- “Involuntary or malicious misidentification? A ‘rediscovered’ flute concerto ‘by Mozart’” – press release, Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg (December 2, 2016)
- “240 Hours, 22 Pounds: A Mammoth Mozart Box Set Aims at More Than ‘Complete’” – NPR (October 27, 2016)
- “Can Opera Become an Agent of Change?” [on various recent productions of Mozart operas] (Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, July 15, 2016)
- “Review: Mozart Reimagined in a Violent, Racist World [Così fan tutte, Aix-en-Provence]” (Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, July 1, 2016)
- “All letters by Leopold Mozart to his daughter Maria Anna online” – press release, Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg (June 23, 2016)
- Mozart Reviews: a new review of Sylvia Milo’s The Other Mozart, by Sara Sheftel (2016)
- “Mozart and Salieri ‘lost’ composition played in Prague” – BBC News (February 16, 2016)
- “Lost Mozart composition for Nancy Storace rediscovered” – press release, Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg (January 19, 2016)
- “Les Mystères d’Isis – Purists May Hate it But This Magic Flute Reboot is Fun,” CD review by Andrew Clements,Guardian (November 4, 2015)
- “Mozart in London Festival Weekend,” Event review by Hannah Templeton, BSECS Criticks (February 25, 2015)
- “Tom Service’s “The Joy of Mozart” (BBC Four),” Television review by Hannah Templeton, BSECS Criticks (January 26, 2015)
- Classical piano pieces by such composers as Beethoven, Mozart and Chopin likely sounded much different when the masters first performed those works than they do today. Pianos themselves have changed considerably — but so, too, has technique. To read more, see http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/science/playing-mozart-piano-pieces-as-mozart-did.html [July 2015]
- “A Sibling Rivalry Played Out Over Keyboards – ‘The Other Mozart’ at Here Arts Center,” Theater review by Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times (June 30, 2014)
- A newly [2014] discovered autograph bifolio of Mozart’s Sonata in A major (K. 331, the one with the “Alla Turca” finale) — High-resolution scans of the autograph: http://mozart.oszk.hu/index_en.html
- “Did Mozart have Tourette’s syndrome?”— Aidin Ashoori and Joseph Jankovic, “Mozart’s Movements and Behaviour: A Case of Tourette’s Syndrome?”–Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry [November 2007]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2117611/