Three Websites for Delving into Mozart

Since today, January 27,  is the anniversary of Mozart’s birth in 1756 (in Salzburg, Austria),  I thought it would be fitting to share three sites where you can hear more of his music as well as learn more about his music and the world he lived in.

Classical Music Archives: Mozart

At the Classical Music Archives you can hear hundreds of his compositions in MP3, MIDI and WAX (a special kind of Windows Media Audio.) Guests can listen to up to five pieces of music per day. This limit is removed for paying subscribers, who can also can download the music files to their own computers. To hear Mozart’s first minuets, scroll down the page to Nannerl’s Notenbuch. To untangle the complexities of audio file formats, read their “How to Listen to Music on the Internet”

Mozart Project

The Mozart Project presents the milestones of Mozart’s life in a time line showing concurrent world events. Europe, teeming with political and cultural activity throughout the eighteenth century, greatly affected Mozart’s development. You’ll also find an annotated catalog of Mozart’s life work, cross referenced chronologically as well as by category. Not merely a listing of compositions, it offers a detailed insight into each work and its creation.

Salzburg: Mozart

the house where Mozart was born

Tour Salzburg, the City of Mozart’s birth, from your easy chair. Stop along the way to visit his birthplace on Getreidegasse, and Mozart’s residence in Makart Square. The site offers a short biography as well as details on the two Mozart houses, now maintained as museums by the Mozarteum Foundation, and is sponsored by the Salzburg Tourist Board.

Happy reading and listening!