Paumgartner

Boss of the mammoth project: Austrian Musicologist Bernard Paumgartner, 67, Mozart biographer, scholar, conductor and president of Salzburg's famed Mozarteum school.

Shaggy, energetic Conductor Paumgartner first divided Mozart's total output into eight categories, selected works from each as representative of a special genre or period in Mozart's life.

Paumgartner himself has been a Salzburg institution for 40 years.

As a man who has made a profitable career out of his love of Mozart, Paumgartner views the bicentenary jubilee with a wary eye.

The big symphonies are being recorded by Amsterdam's splendid Concertgebouw Orchestra, smaller ones by Paumgartner's own Camerata Academica orchestra; concertos are assigned to Dutch artists, who may be excellent but are rarely the top Mozart specialists.