Mozarts

Arias of agony for Mozart’s enemy: PATRICK MARMION reviews Amadeus 

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Amadeus (NT at Home, via YouTube) Verdict: Music to my ears  Rating: Amadeus is an epic tale of glorious self-pity. Many will know it best from the Oscar-winning film starring F. Murray Abraham as Salieri — the Court Composer to Emperor Joseph II in 18th-century Vienna. Salieri was supposedly toxic with envy of the effortless … Read more

Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos can help to reduce the number of seizures in patients with epilepsy

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Listening to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos once a day can help to reduce the number of seizures in patients with epilepsy, study shows Researchers from Canada tested the piece on 13 volunteers over three months They then repeated the experiment with a ‘shuffled’ version of the 1781 sonata Only the original composition had the seizure-reducing, … Read more