Happy Birthday Amadeus Mozart!

[KurtNYC]

He showed musical gifts at a very early age, composing when he was five and when he was six playing before the Bavarian elector and the Austrian empress. Leopold felt that it was proper, and might also be profitable, to exhibit his children's God-given genius (Maria Anna, 'Nannerl', 1751-1829, was a gifted keyboard player): so in mid-1763 the family set out on a tour that took them to Paris and London, visiting numerous courts en route. Mozart astonished his audiences with his precocious skills; he played to the French and English royal families, had his first music published and wrote his earliest symphonies. The family arrived home late in 1766; nine months later they were off again, to Vienna, where hopes of having an opera by Mozart performed were frustrated by intrigues...

http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/mozart.html

I found this desciption of Mozart's talent especially powerful (from the movie "Amadeus"):

OLD SALIERI (V.O.)
Extraordinary! On the page it looked nothing. The beginning
simple, almost comic. Just a pulse - bassoons and basset horns -
like a rusty squeezebox. Then suddenly - high above it - an
oboe, a single note, hanging there unwavering, till a clarinet took
over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no
composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I'd never
heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing, it had
me trembling. It seemed to me that I was hearing a voice of God.

http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/Amadeaaaus.txt

[Hugin]

1. Seconded!

In fact... I'm right now listening to his work.

(Helps me work. ;) )

[LuCifer]

2. Rock me Amadeus!!!!!!

I figure I better get that done and said before someone else does!!!

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[CatWoman]

9. no, Dr. Zeus!!!!

:hi:

"The Dr. Zaius Song"

Ape: Help, the human's about to escape.
Troy: Get your paws off me, you dirty ape.
Apes: He can talk!
Apes:
He can talk
He can talk
He can talk
He can talk
He can talk
He can talk
Troy: I can siiiiiing!


Female Nurse Ape: Ooh, help me Dr. Zaius!
Apes:
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius
Oh... Dr. Zaius
Ape: Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius.

Troy: What's wrong with me?
Zaius: I think you're crazy.
Troy: Want a second opinion.
Zaius: You're also lazy.

Apes:
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius

Oh... Dr. Zaius
Ape: Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius.

Troy: Can I play the piano anymore?
Zaius: Of course you can.
Troy: Well I couldn't before!


"You'll Never Make a Monkey Out of Me"

Troy:
I hate every ape I see
From chimpan-a to chimpan-zee
No you'll never make a monkey out of me

Oh my God, I was wrong
It was Earth all along
You've finally made a monkey

Apes: Yes we've finally made a monkey

Troy: Yes you've finally made a monkey out of me
Apes: Yes we've finally made a monkey out of you

Troy: I love you, Dr. Zaius!

[IntravenousDemilo]

3. And Jerome Kern, too!

Don't forget the composer of "Show Boat"!

Also my big brother in Regina turns 58 today. He doesn't care about either Mozart or Kern, unfortunately.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. I wish there were monuments to genius like his rather than generals.

Not to mention politicians.

[AllegroRondo]

6. Theres a nice statue of him in Salzburg

if you ever get over that way.
and the house he was born in was turned into a museum.

[KurtNYC]

7. And there is the music

One of the wonderful things about music is that it doesn't fade, flake or peel like paint. It can't crack or be vandalized like sculpture. It can't be stolen (well...)or carted off to a private collection like paintings.

It speaks with a universal language of elation, wonder, awe and longing. And it speaks as clearly today as ever.

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Makes me want to rent the movie from the library. (sigh)

All that talent plus all that womanizing. What a guy!

:evilgrin:

[stopbush]

8. I'm taking the family to a Mozart B'day party at UNLV tonight.

The Sierra Winds are playing the Quintet...plus a mini-talk and a few other ensembles doing trios etc. B'day cake & wine for all!

Can you believe it's happening in Las Vegas?