Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Mostly Mozart

There's viral movement in the online music world that's coming from an unlikely place -- the hallowed halls of the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, a Mozart foundation based in Salzburg, Austria. In honor of the composer's 250th birthday, last week the foundation made all of the prolific composer's compositions available online, for free. The site says it's had more than 400,000 hits in the site's first 12 hours of live time, and more than 12,000,000 after four days. It's now increased server capacity to deal with demand. Who said classical music was dead?