@Sweetsound - I treated myself yesterday by watching - for the third time! - the movie "Amadeus" (Milos Forman etc.)- I know, total fantasy, but many truths are shining through and the music is fabulous, would even charm a non-classical music fan, I think!!
Mozart is depicted as some inane clown, shaking out music by the bucketful and without ever making drafts. In reality he was a well-educated and scholarly musician - taught by his father from an early age - and did in actual fact make drafts, which his widow, after his death discarded. She married a Danish diplomat after Mozart's death but not before she had gone 'into business' arranging concerts of her husband's music, and publishing his music (she destroyed all the drafts only kept the final manuscripts).
. . . but apart from that, and accepting that Tom Hulce paid homage to then reigning '1980s Punk' style, it is a marvellous film, full of great music, played by a marvellous orchestra, sung by amazing singers - and the wardrobe department went into overdrive. I doubt whether people were quite so lavishly dressed, but no matter - it was an astonishing tour de force - again! . . . and burdening Maestro Salieri with such deviousness and deep thoughts on 'being ordinary' rather than being 'inspired' is a bit of a stretch of the writer's imagination; but great acting by Murray Abraham.
I have noticed 'ordinary' people are usually happy in their ordinariness, it's those touched by some deeper insights, real creativity, etc. who suffer.
I am sure Mozart did, but his robust sense of folksy humour (some not acceptable in today's society) was a great help. Sad he had to die aged 35 from something as common, then, as Rheumatic Fever, but rather the treatment (repeated phlobotomies - bloodletting). One of his sons also became a musician and composer.
May I reference another Hotcopper friend here, who likes music (
@NoBoDe) but is hibernating atm.
- - - - stay musical!!!
Taurisk
