A few weeks ago i got a lucky suprise from my parents and they took me to a Mozart concert in princeton on his 250th birthday, and it was just an amazing show. Now after watching Amedeus, for some reason his life is just so interesting and compelling to me, am i just weird or does anybody else think of him in some similiar fashion?
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
meh, his work stands alone. I've read a few biographies, but I haven't seen Amadeus yet. I have gotten the impression however that it is quite far from "the truth." There is of course a huge tendency to point and say: "how odd he was!" Given that we feel comforted by explaining his incredible skill by alienizing him as a total wack-job. Maybe, maybe not. The music though? Magnifique.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
The same thing happened to me, especially when I first saw that movie. The movie is not v ery historically accurate though, but the director presented interesting theories involving his death. The movie is worth watching because it's DAMN GOOD. So I bought it on DVD. I wish I had some sort of extensive biography of him in a way...
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I love Mozart, but I really love Bach even more.
I was born to the Brandenburg Concertos. They're still one of my favorites. Posted by Rudolph (Member # 3236) on :
dvorak. mozart is wonderful though. and vivaldi. yeah
Posted by Scythrop (Member # 5731) on :
And Chopin.
Can't forget Chopin...
Posted by Steev (Member # 6805) on :
If you really want to know about Mozart as a person I would NOT recommend the movie "Amadeus". Not only is it historically inaccurate in many ways it's also a completely 1-dimensional characterization of him.
Terrible Movie.
Instead check out the book, "Mozart's Women: The Man, the Music, and the Loves in His Life" by Jane Glover. Amazon.com link Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
Last weekend, we did a birthday concert, playing the double piano concerto and the overture to Cosi Fan Tutte. The double piano concerto is a neat piece, if you get a chance, I think you'd like it. Most mozart kind of washes over me, but a few years ago, I played "The Grand Partita," the piece featured in Amadeus when Scalieri walks in and says, "an oboe from heaven," or something like that. It's a nice piece.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
I, uh, actually really like "Amadeus." I don't necessarily like it for the historical accuracy, but rather for the story itself. And oh, the performances.
Good thing I just got done watching it Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
For a wonderful music about classical music, see Immortal Beloved. It is not about Mozart, but is one of the best treatments of music I have seen.
Kwea
Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :
I dunno about Mozart, but that Falco guy, woohee.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Terrible? But the movie was stylish. Worth seeing for the Don Giovanni part alone Dang, I love that part of that opera! All those gorgeous deep male voices! Gah! It's the best
What about Rachmoninov? Tchichosky (sp) Brahms? Mendelsohn (Especially his Heberdies overture, why are so many classical things hard to spell?) And Janacek with his Intimate Letters! I love Intimate Letter's third movement. Mmmmmmmm And Faure! His music has a nice texture to it.
Posted by Steev (Member # 6805) on :
OK, let me qualify that. If you're looking for a fictional but entertaining movie that has a lot of Mozart's music in it then by all means watch "Amadeus".
Just don't expect to walk away from it with any real sense of who Mozart was.
A move about Mozart's music? Fine. A movie about Mozart? Terrible.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Amadeus is probably one of my favorite films of all times and peoples.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
We went to a brass concert tonight. My favorite number was from Mozart's 4th horn thingee.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Is that it's offical name?
I haven't heard of it...is it new? Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
That's strange, dkw, I heard the Chicago Symphony do the fourth horn concerto about three weeks ago. If you get a chance, I think that the Third horn concerto is lovely.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
quote:Originally posted by Synesthesia: ...Mendelsohn (Especially his Heberdies overture, why are so many classical things hard to spell?) ...
I absolutely adore Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave). I love it to the utmost extreme of loving classical (okay, Romantic) music. Woo!
And I totally know what you mean when you say it's all hard to spell Posted by boogashaga (Member # 8881) on :
I especially enjoy Mozart's "I'm Inclined To Knock" music.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote:For a wonderful music about classical music, see Immortal Beloved. It is not about Mozart, but is one of the best treatments of music I have seen.
The acting is somewhat wanting in many areas, though.
I am also a fan of Amadeus-the-movie. I wouldn't say that it portrayed him one-dimensionally at all, however accurate it actually was.
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