The saying goes, a picture paints a thousand words. But in one letter to his wife, Mozart鈥檚 words paint a picture of the effect his wife鈥檚 portrait has on鈥�

In the final year of his life, Mozart composed his piano variations on the aria Ein Weib ist das herrlichste Ding 鈥� "A Wife Is the Most Glorious Thing" 鈥撯€�

As Christmas nears, you might be finding yourself wrapped up in the spirit of the season, searching for that perfect gift for each and every one of your鈥�

This episode of The Mozart Minute was previously published on May 29, 2015 at www.wosu.org/classical101.More than 200 years after its premiere, Mozart's鈥�

Mozart's first son, Raimund Leopold Mozart, wasn't born alone. Instead, you might say he was one of a set of triplets. In 1829, while traveling throughout鈥�