Mozart/ Armida Quartet - String Quartets 5 In Stock Stoltz is the word for

Stoltz is the word for "one-man-band-home-recording-pop-songs of idiosyncratic character

post-Romantic works influenced by Chopin and Liszt

She is Professor of Keyboard Studies at Temple University where she has taught historical keyboards and performance practice for the past twenty years

Going beyond the 'documentary' aspect

Mozart/ Armida Quartet - String Quartets 5 In Stock Stoltz is the word forBoredom (in German: "long whiling") is apparently what drove Wolfgang to compose one of his string quartets at the inn at Bolzano. And yes, he was doing well, as father Leopold assured Mozart's mother in a letter dated 28 October 1772. How can we even imagine what boredom must have felt like for a 16 year old genius? At any rate, it would be too Romantic to imagine that Mozart was writing an emotional diary with these string quartets, a sort of