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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 on January 27th, and we will observe the occasion this Sunday with lots of music from this most remarkable of child prodigies, musicians, and composers in all of music, who — in a short life — produced a body of work that has delighted listeners for nearly 265 years now.

Last week we heard from some composers who, through luck or prescience, were able to escape the authoritarian regimes of 20th-century Europe. This Sunday we’ll hear music from seven who were not so fortunate.

In the years before World War I, Paris impressario Sergei Diaghilev commissioned three ballets from Igor Stravinsky. We’ll look at the Paris ballets over the next three weeks on Mozart’s Attic, and we’ll begin with The Firebird this Sunday with the others to follow.

We’ve been working our way through the Beethoven piano sonatas over the past few months, and this week we’re up to Number 14, the famous Moonlight Sonata.It was written in 1801, and that was a big year for the thirty-year-old transplant to the big city of Vienna. Audiences were taking notice, and patrons were commissioning works. There was a troublesome ringing in his ears, but maybe that would go away.

Evreybody’s heard of Beethoven and Brahms, but most composers never attained that degree of fame. This week we’ll look at music by some of those whom most people have never heard of. We’ll do it with a sampling from about 600 years worth of work from composers who haven’t — or haven’t yet — become household names.

It’s only natural that there should be an affinity between various genres of music, and that includes classical and more popular formats — musical comedy, for example, or jazz. This week, we’ll look at some composers and songwriters who have shared more than one limelight. The names will all be familiar but the selections might be somewhat extra-curricular. Or maybe not. It depends on your point of view.

In 1955, the 22-year old Canadian pianist Glenn Gould arrived at the Studios of Columbia Records to record the — not much better known — Goldberg Variations of J.S. Bach. Sixty-six years later, the recording is still in print. It launched Gould’s career, and in 1981, he book ended that career with another recording of the same work. It was to be his last recording.

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Jacob remains the most popular name for boys born in the U.S., as it has been since 1999. Meanwhile, there's good news for fans of the King: Elvis is back in the top 1,000.