VIENNA, Dec 29: Mozart is still generating hits-- millions of them, in fact. A jubilee year of celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth ended on Friday with a flourish-- as a harpsichord player tapped out a posthumous premiere of a previously unknown tune, a new online database of all of Mozart’s works got its 20 millionth page view.
“The interest exceeded even our boldest expectations,” said Ulrich Leisinger, head of research at the International Mozart Foundation, which added two extra Web servers to handle “hits” after it launched the 24,000-page Internet catalogue earlier this month.—AP
