Christoph Koncz has used gut-stringed baroque instrument to record Mozart’s violin concertos When he first dared ask the keepers of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s violin if he might be allowed to try it ...

Mozart wrote five violin concertos, all but one of them in the same year—1775, when he was nineteen. The Concerto No. 1 was written two years before, possibly. Musicologists are unsure. Are they great ...

Playing Mozart's music on Mozart's own violin is like reaching through 250 years of history to commune with the legendary composer, says Christoph Koncz. Koncz, the principal second violinist of the ...

Oh, not much to see here, just the violin that Mozart composed countless works of genius with... This is the holy grail of violins Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart liked to have a good number of instruments ...

The violin and viola that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played himself are in the United States for the first time ever. The instruments come out of storage only about once a year at the Salzburg Mozarteum ...