Mozart Life Documentary - Salzburg and Vienna Years

Commemorating Mozart's life in Salzburg (birth & beginnings) and in Vienna (freelancer musician & death). 

Mozart in Salzburg 

With all his divine genius, Wolfgng Amadeus Mozart was born into a particular environment and was decisively formed here from his childhood and youth. 'Mozart in Salzburg' makes the Composer's Salzburg years accessible.

The 60-minute film illuminates Mozart's daily life and the political and historical circumstances. What did the young Mozart see in the streets and squares? What did he eat? How did he travel? What were his leisure activities like? Questions about his milieu will be thematically categorised: How did Mozart deal with the great authority figures: his father Leopold and the Archbishop Colloredo? How did he react to the Catholic norms? What moved the young genius to flee to Vienna? And how did his years in Salzburg form him? With Daniel Barenboim, Gil Shaham, Angelika Kirchschlager, Martin Haselböck and others. ~  A documentary by Daniel Finkernagel and Alexander Lück

Mozart in Vienna: 

The 25 year old Wolfgang Mozart arrives in Vienna, 16th of March, 1781. The last ten years of his life will be spent in this city. In this period he writes such masterpieces as the opera "Magic Flute," his most important symphonies and the Requiem. Mozart takes charge of his own works by becoming the first ever freelance composer. He meets world famous composers and librettists. Here is where he reaches the limits of his popularity. "Believe me…fame doesn’t last very long here …after only a few months the Viennese already want something new," wrote Mozart to his father. In Vienna he acquires a sickness which leads to his death in December 5, 1791. Mozart, who changed apartments eleven times within those ten years was buried in a pauper’s grave at the cemetery of St. Marxer in Vienna.

'Mozart in Vienna' traces in 60 minutes the most critical years of his life. Examining Vienna’s authentic Mozart sites such as the Mozart House at Domgasse 5 ("Figaro-Haus"), the Theater an der Wien and the Stefansdom helps put into focus Mozart’s special connection to the city and the Viennese relationship to Mozart. ~ With Peter Sellars, Thomas Quasthoff, Daniel Barenboim, Angelika Kirchschlager, Martin Haselböck, Robert Levin, Peter Gülke, Gernot Gruber, Volkmar Braunbehrens and Herbert Lachmayer.


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Mozart in Salzburg - Documentary about Mozart's life (with Daniel Barenboim, Gil Shaham and others). YouTube, uploaded by EuroArtsChannel. Accessed January 27, 2016.

Mozart in Vienna - Documentary about Mozart's Life (with  English subtitles). YouTube, uploaded by EuroArtsChannel. Accessed January 27, 2016.



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