Janissary band music (mp3), from the Turkish ministry of culture: Nothing we can tell you about Turkish music says it quite as loud-and-clear as these sound clips.
Mozart ProjectAbduction page, with history, synopsis, and sound clips.
Scott Cantrell, “Abduction on the Orient Express: the transcontinental journey of a Mozart masterpiece.” Opera News, 1/1/2003
W. Daniel Wilson, “Turks on the Eighteenth-Century Operatic Stage and European Political, Military, and Cultural History,” Eighteenth-Century Life, 2 (1985): 79-92.
Conspiracy theories are debunked by this article, which provides evidence that illness—not murder—was the cause of Mozart’s death.
Books
Robert Spaethling, Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005)
Mozart’s revealing letters lend insight into his personality and his relationships with family, friends and employers. A beautiful new translation!
