Essays About Mozart

Mozart’s Grace

by Scott Burnham Perfection, revelation, incarnation, grace, redemption. Such metaphors resonate throughout the history of Mozart reception. We probably should not be surprised at their ubiquity, the ease of their fit over the past two centuries. Mozart’s seemingly infallible musical… Read More

That Mozart Autograph . . .

… fetched almost $1 million (£578,500 = $972,285, hammer price plus buyer premiums) at the Sotheby’s sale in London on 20 May 2014. In the same sale, the autograph of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Second Symphony sold for over $2 million (£1,202,500 = $2,021,042). Read More