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A 9-year-old couldn’t help but exclaim “wow” after hearing a Boston orchestra play Mozart, and it was all caught on the concert’s recording.

The story hit just the right note with those who heard it. But whose young voice was it that touched the hearts of both orchestra and audience alike at a concert of the Handel and Hayden Society at Symphony Hall in Boston Sunday?

It was the “Wow!” heard ’round the concert hall — and now they know who said it.The Handel and Haydn Society has located the young boy who captured the hearts of concertgoers and delighted the Internet when he let out an audible “Wow!” after the orchestra finished a piece by Mozart during a Boston Symphony …

The country’s oldest orchestra, Handel and Haydn Society, reached the end of Mozart’s “Masonic Funeral,” when a child exclaimed, “Wow.” The group is looking for the child to give them a recording.

A performing arts group has found the child who was literally wowed by a recent classical music concert. The Handel & Haydn Society had just finished a rendition of Mozart’s “Masonic Funeral” at Boston’s Symphony Hall on Sunday when a youngster blurted out: “WOW!”

America’s oldest performing arts group is looking for a child who was literally wowed by a recent classical music concert.

Earlier this month, we recorded the Handel and Haydn Society’s season finale for WCRB In Concert, where it will air in the fall — and we caught this unforgettable moment on tape.

Seconds after the Handel and Haydn Society stopped playing Mozart’s “Masonic Funeral Music” at the Boston Symphony Hall on Sunday, 9-year-old Ronan Mattin was so swept away by the music that he loudly exclaimed — for the whole auditorium to hear — “Wow!”

David Snead, CEO of the Handel & Haydn Society orchestra, tells As It Happens host Carol Off the moment a child issued an audible ‘Wow!’ during a performance of Mozart’s Masonic Funeral is proof that classical music can touch the hearts of anyone, young or old.

A little boy with autism from New Hampshire was so moved by the music at a classical concert this weekend that he uttered an enthusiastic ‘wow’ as one song came to an end — and his word of wonder could be heard all over the auditorium.