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Dies Irae Confutatis

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[Zayin1993]

Right after that scene Mozart dies... Does this parallel with real life? Did he really die right after he made that piece?

[condedeorgaz]

@Zayin1993 Yes, he didn't finish the Requiem. A disciple finished it

[classicalguss]

@condedeorgaz Either way the movie is far from the real history, it's not even close. Mozart didn't die right after the premier of magic flute for example.

[condedeorgaz]

@classicalguss That's true. The movie is not historic

[BX02]

In my opinion I think this is one of teh BESt scenes in the history of film.. Gimem teh oldies, gimme the epic's... this one destroys them asll.. They way the music is put into opiece by piece liek that.. oh amn.. I just can't explina it..simply outstanding acting, and exceptional musical decipheri9ng..if I can say that.. awesome!!!

[adam4757]

Those strings really are the "real fire". That's what separates Mozart from the rest of his contemporaries. Any other composer would leave it there, and still produce an excellent composition. Mozart however goes one step further and his orchestration is unparalleled.

[dominoes37]

@93rardo It has a good impression, because it has such fulfilling music. I know what you mean

[dominoes37]

I bet that the real mozart probably wrote this in around 4 minutes as well

What a genius

[93rardo]

I don't think there has been any movie which has had such an intense impression on me as this movie.

[Armando1735]

Genial e humano.

[classicalguss]

@tmc359 I don't know about that. It may be true that he wasn't into masses, but not all his music is full of color, life or vitality. Specially music from his latest years, a lot of them were dark and deep.

[Berquetz]

This scene shows how beyond-its-time Mozart was. How salieri can't get the compositions, and how he was so different. I love it. I have a big respect for Mozart, and a composer like him will never come given the situation nowadays.

[tmc359]

@Zayin1993 (cont..) his greatest opera, is masterpiece of child-like wonder full of life and vitality, was completed only a few months before his death. My own opinion, Mozart did not particulary like religious choral works and took his sweet time with them, if he ever got his mind to finishing them at all. His passion was for the color, life, vitality (and the fame) that came with opera. No other form of his era demanded so much from a composer, and it was the ultimate challenge.

[tmc359]

@Zayin1993 There is no evidence whatsoever that his Requiem had anything to do with his death. He was simply composing a piece under commission and it may as well have been a fanfare for fireworks as a requiem. Remember that Mozart, for whatever reason, never finished his only other large-scale, religious choral work, the Great Mass in c, which he wrote 8 years before he died, so he had plenty of time to finsih that masterpiece but did not. Also note that Die Zauberflote, possibly his (cont)