250 Years old and still kicking! Well...at least his music is. Today, all around the world there will be a celebration. Many a concert, school children learning, and a whole lot of us just sitting back and listening to what we have.You can check out some info on Mozart over at the BBC. They've got some audio you can sample and some interesting facts about the man and his music. For more of an academic look regarding anything Mozart, check out the Mozart Project.
Of course, if you're like me, you'll run out and buy the CD "Dead Winter Dead" by Savatage, which includes the awesome track, "Mozart and Madness". This is also the CD that originally had what later became Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) which has boomed in the last few years. You know the one...it's played on every football game when they go to commercial at Christmas time and used in almost every commercial! Anyway...it's a great CD and it's not filled with Christmas music at all.
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Also worth visiting is www.mozartforum.com. Some of the posters have clearly devoted their life to the music. I don't know if they got any smarter as a result.
You'll also find lots of links to tributes at Arts and Letters Daily:
http://aldaily.com/
They are to the right of the link to "clitoral satisfaction." (I kid you not)
Enjoy (no pun),
Ed
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