I thought I would offer the whole movement in a clip (below the clip from the film), which is actually the group whose recording was used in the film (Academy of St. In a nutshell it encapsulates so much what is the essence of Mozart's music.
The first time I saw and heard that it brought tears to my eyes.
The music that is in the background, which Salieri describes SO poetically at about 3:30 minutes into the clip is the 3rd movement of the Gran Partita in B-Flat for 13 winds. Deftly mixing fact with fiction, in it the older Salieri is narrating and describing the first time he encountered Mozart. It also points to the gulf between genius (Mozart) and mediocrity (Salieri). Hardly possible, but still fun, and in the spirit of what Mozart WAS regularly doing-showing up lesser composers, because he could!Īs a postscript, if anyone is interested and has a few spare minutes, I wanted to add another clip from the film, one of the most beautiful and poignant. However, in the film, at the keyboard, he transmorphs the "March" by Salieri into what would several years later be the aria "Non piu andrai" from the opera "The Marriage of Figaro". Now, Mozart sitting down and doing something like that to music by Salieri WAS plausible-he did do stuff like that. The opera being discussed in the clip is "The Abduction From the Seraglio", the opera which was Mozart's first big hit in Vienna, written for the Emperor's then newly founded German-language theatre. That's sometimes how genius is personified. Mozart WAS a very cheeky, almost obnoxious little brat-his upbringing saw to that-and he was super-confident of his abilities. The clip Dan chose IS actually very much rooted in fact. And there are places in the film where this is heart-stoppingly, beautifully apparent. Both were created with obvious love for the man and his music. It what I call "Variations on the Theme of Mozart's Life". Yes, both play and film do play very loose with the actual facts, BUT that was not their purpose.
That being said, I could always the Shaffer play and Forman film for what it was. I've also spent my live studying and sucking up every book available on this remarkable person. Ah.divine Mozart.the #1 god in my panoply of musical "gods".īelow is offered solely as an addendum for folks who might be inclined to further pursue the subject.Īs someone who has spent their life surrounded by classical music and privileged beyond measure to perform it professionally, Mozart's music has always been the top of my list.
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