Letters had to be written home. By the time he was 20, Mozart had spent half his life on the road. The letters home—Wolfgang’s own or his appendices to his father Leopold’s sober accounts of ...

As well as the Walter instrument, Mozart used a piano by Franz Jakob Späth, but we know from a well-known letter to his father Leopold, of 17 October 1777, that Mozart's favourite instrument at ...

This rare peek into the composer's personal life comes from a letter written by his father Leopold Mozart to Wolfgang's mother and sister when the would-be composer was still a young boy of 14.