About
About The Mozart Portal
Founded in 2025, The Mozart Portal is a digital home for everyone who loves Mozart. Our goal is to build a trusted, beautiful, and inspiring gateway to his life, his works, and his enduring influence.
The portal is created and maintained by Intuitive Data, a small studio devoted to making complex information simple, beautiful, and a pleasure to explore. That philosophy shapes everything here — from the complete Köchel catalogue, presented as a clean and searchable database, to our opera guides, where you can follow each act's story and read the libretto in the original alongside translations, and on to our articles, features, and curated recommendations.
The Mozart Portal is designed to immerse you in Mozart's world and mood.
We're building the portal step by step, but the aim is clear: to become the most comprehensive and inspiring online resource for Mozart enthusiasts anywhere in the world.
The person behind it
The Mozart Portal was founded by Morten Espelid, a Norwegian Mozart enthusiast — not a musicologist. He holds no degree in music, and on a good day he can play a couple of Mozart pieces on the piano.
He first discovered Mozart's music during the pandemic lockdowns, on long walks in the forest, and was struck by how perfect and natural it sounded — as though every note belonged exactly where it was. Curiosity took over, and he began reading everything he could find about the composer.
When he went looking for a single place that captured both the facts and the atmosphere of Mozart's life and work — and couldn't find one — he decided to build it himself, for Mozart lovers everywhere. What he brought to it was his own obsession: a love of data, and of presenting information in an inviting, well-ordered way.
On The Mozart Portal, our aim is to gather as much reliable information about Mozart as we possibly can, and to make exploring it genuinely exciting.
Use of AI
To do this at scale, we make extensive use of AI — including in the drafting of articles, as well as for translation, language refinement, and structuring content.
There is a vast amount of scattered information about Mozart online: much of it valuable, but hard to navigate, compare, or trust. Using modern tools such as AI together with open cultural data, we collect, organize, and present this material clearly and consistently, all in one place — for a broad, multilingual audience.
AI is an instrument for accessibility and clarity, never a substitute for musical insight or historical accuracy. Every text is reviewed, curated, and checked against primary sources by a human editor before publication. Where the facts are contested, we say so; where popular myths have taken hold, we try to correct them.