The Greatest Mozart Documentary Ever Part 3

Pianist and Author Balint Vazsonyi
along with special quest Anthony Quayle
explore Mozart's life.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Wolfgang
• Amedeus
• Mozart
• Documentary
• Salzburg
• Vienna
• Beethoven
• Bach
• Chopin
• Liszt
• Schubert
• Schumann
• Scriabin

[LeGrande]

Sometimes the video goes into melodrama, but for an overall history of Mozart's life and music, it is very well done. If it causes someone to look deeper to fact-check minor issues, then it has succeeded marvelously. I use this video in my music appreciation classes which I teach at a community college.

[LVB1770]

@LeGrande, I'm happy to see someone using this for education. Check out the Beethoven documentary I put up made by the same people who made the Mozart one.

[2ListenAndSing]

THE DOCUMENTARY FILM OF HIS LIFE WAS ENTERTAINING BUT IT'S NOT AN ACCURATE PORTRAIT OF W.A.MOZART.

[LVB1770]

2ListenAndSing, So please fill us all in on your sources for accuracy on the life of Mozart!

I have found over the many of studying Mozart's life that his letters are the best resources for accuracy.

[somecookies]

I don't like this documentary. It never talked about how Mozart was in feud with the aristocrats, after Mozart criticized how the aristocrats were treating the poor in the play "marriage of figaro" I dislike how the documentary simplify his life like a cheap, sad chick flick.

[LVB1770]

somecookies, point taken.

[maxbaguet124]

I think the basic concept is interesting and well worked out: two men talking about the brilliant composer, one (Quayle) is the unlearned, asking Mozart fan, the other (Vazsonyi) the man with the knowledge about the music and the facts. Its something different then a voice over telling everything from a piece of paper. The documentary tries to portray Mozart in a very human way. I'm sure this was made because of an inner compulsion and passion to tell us about Mozart.

[LeGrande]

@LVB1770 I saw the Schubert documentary by the same people, but not the Beethoven until just now. How many composers' documentaries did these two do? I could listen to Balint's voice all day talking about the composers.

[Jennytheshipper]

One thing I appreciate about this documentary is that it puts large chunks of the music into the context of Mozart's life.  That is unusual as is the conversational tone of the narration.

[2ListenAndSing]

@LVB1770 THE THREE PART DOCUMENTARY FILM WAS FULL OF FACTS & IT WAS ALSO FULL OF SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES WHICH DISTORTED ACCURACY. YOU NEED NOT RELY ON ME...SIR, TO EDUCATE YOU ON THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS COMPOSER.

[kingofcobwebs]

So, the Masons really are Nazgul. Mozart knew it all along.