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Víkingur Ólafsson: re-envisioning ‘Mozart & Contemporaries’ in Cambridge

Por: The Boston Globe Life November 30, 2022

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CAMBRIDGE — Whenever a child takes piano lessons, it’s only a matter of time before that child confronts the ghost of young Mozart. The true details of the composer’s own childhood are quite impressive, and the apocryphal stories are even more so. When I was a young pianist, the biggest whopper I encountered was the assertion that Mozart wrote the melody that English speakers know as “” at the age of 9. (He was around 25, and it was... + full article



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