Mozart's response to the idea of making church music was a little like the average child's reaction to being told to eat his spinach. And much fuss has been made over just how much Mozart hated having ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Claude Vivier was barely older than Mozart when he was brutally murdered in his Paris apartment 28 years ago.

A giant monument to this city's religion, power and wealth, Dom zu Salzburg awes visitors with its turquoise domes and towering facade. Built, burned and rebuilt multiple times in the past millennia, ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Audio By Carbonatix Editor’s Note: Jay Nordlinger spent the middle two weeks of August in Salzburg, Austria, working at ...