Conductor Ian Page has embarked on a 27-year project to play Mozart’s music, in order, 250 years after it was written. He has reached 1776, when Mozart was 10 and his music was already breaking new ground Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756‑1791) is probably the most famous composer of all time. But how much do we really know about him, and how do we separate reality from myth? After all, even the name by which we know him is inauthentic: he was baptised Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart – Theophilus being the Greek form of Gottlieb, his godfather’s name, meaning “beloved by God”, and although Mozart referred to himself as Wolfgang Amadé throughout his adulthood, he was never known as the Latinised “Amadeus” during his lifetime. We have a partial appreciation of his music, too, as fewer than a quarter of his works are regularly played and a large proportion of those are mostly neglected. Mozart seems not to be interested in writing tunes but plays with the orchestra as if it were a new toy Continue reading...
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