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| quote: | Originally posted by zenperson
I don't get my facts from movies.  I've studied music and music history since I was 6. That was part of his genious.. being able to compose entire symphonies in his head, without traditional means...
A simple definition of genious is being able to get from A to C, without having to go through B |
You may not have gotten facts from movies but you didn't get facts from your studies either.
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The image of Mozart as the divinely inspired effortless creator, popularized by the film Amadeus, is generally believed to be an exaggeration. Quite the contrary, Mozart was a studiously hard worker, and by his own admission his extensive knowledge and abilities developed out of many years' close study of the European musical tradition.
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source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart...d_controversies
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The Salieri of Amadeus, when confronted with Mozart's autographs, remarked on seeing no corrections in the scores: "It is miraculous." Such an observation is also not quite correct. While Mozart, like any composer of his time, had the craft to produce works with unusual rapidity, there were a number of false starts and compositions left in progress over a period of one or two years. For some compositions sketches survive, and one must believe that these were more common than the number of extant examples indicates. Regarding the six quartets dedicated to Haydn, Mozart acknowledged in the letter that prefaced their publication: "They are, indeed, the fruit of a long and laborious study." When Shaffer's Wolfgang tells Schikaneder that The Magic Flute is all in his "noodle" and just needs to be written down, this is something less than a half-truth. Certainly, the concept and much of the composition may have already been formulated; the act of setting the notes on paper certainly engenders changes. For operas, once the rehearsals began, all sorts of revisions might occur to accommodate both the drama and the cast. |
source: http://www.mozartproject.org/essays/brown.html
BTW, your definition and spelling of a genius is wrong too.
-Scott
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