The Vatican had commissioned a setting of "Miserere mei, Deus" from Gregorio Allegre, back in the 1630s. It was allowed to played only in the Sistine Chapel during Easter week. Copies of the score were kept secret. In 1770, Mozart and his father attended. Wolfgang was 14. After the performance Mozart wrote out the entire score, for all nine vocal parts, from memory.
This is without any doubt one of the greatest music movies ever - a true artwork and masterpiece directed by a legend (Milos Forman) with brillant actors - Mozart from young age to his death....you will LOVE IT. It is so charming, exciting, thrilling - you barely can't overstimate it. Enjoy!! P.S. It is historically not correct as it proven with almost certainty that Salieri did not kill Mozart, but this scene is Mozart dying in bed, getting help by his murder - so casptivating. The rest of the movie..said enough. Just enjoy.
Mozart was genuinely a musical genius and it is such a shame that he died at only 35yr old. I can only imagine what more he could have done if he had lived longer. He completely changed opera single handedly forever to stories that the common people could connect with like The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute.
In the context of the movie, what I like about this scene is Salieri was the freaking court composer, composing for the Emperor, and he was lost following Mozart's train of thought with composing. Of course, this is all dramatized. In real life Salieri actually was a successful musician in his own right. Though his music is generally sub-par and not part of the standard repretoire, he was a great teacher who taught composition to classical music masters like Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and Franz Liszt. I'm sure he wouldn't have gotten lost like that taking dictation from Mozart. Note: Mozart himself said composition didn't come easy to him. He actually had to work at it like everyone else. He wrote to a friend: “People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to composition as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.”
Amadeus is a masterpiece! DO react to it, don't miss out. Other ppl nitpicking at it not being completely historical innacurate (esp concerning Salieri) are missing the point: the movie captures the essence and personality of Mozart and most importantly the genius of his music which is displayed magnificenctly & beautifully. Even more noteworthy, this film attempts the rare difficult feat of portraying the creative process in visual medium. As if it weren't enough, it's a deep conflicting psychological portrayal to the effect of works of beauty and genius on human psyche. It is emotionally gripping and has deep effect on viewers by the end as great art and storytelling tends to do. It's quite the experience...
I have many friends playing in this movie (not the major roles) and even didn't want go and see another movie about a composer ....But I went encouraged by my friend to see them.....WOW it was greatest movie experience ever and the most realistic impression how would genius musician live and die. ...trust me I shared accommodation with them....The Best Years of My life!
This is my 18 month old granddaughters favorite video, more than Super Kitties, no matter what she is doing she stops to watch this, completely focused. She has seen it well over 100 times. As well as the"Non piu andrai". She also loves classical composers played on piano with lighted notes, like Vivaldi, Beethoven Bach and Chopin. She's a weird kid, but highly focused
Hi Gidi ! It's Sandrine from France. I don't comment that much but I've been following you from the start. And from the start, I'd like you to watch that movie. Honestly, if there is any possibility that you can make a video of you watching it (and yes, this time you'll be allowed to pause as much as your want to share your reactions !!), please do it. I would be thrilled to re-discover it through your eyes ! I was 12 when I saw it the first time : I was unable to speak for one week, completely overwhelmed by these so paradoxal feelings and emotions from this talented guy (Salieri) facing a... genius. You MUST watch it !
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Lili Boulangier and Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov were the most talented not only composers but orchestrators too. With great influence to other composers. And not the only ones. But theese are my three beloved ones . Before them and after them were others . Like Bach, Mendelson , Debussy, Tscaikovsky, Schuman, Schubert ,Orff , Vivaldi , Stravinsky, Khatzaturian, Prokofiev, Puccini, Glazunov,Verdi ,Berlioz, Bizet, Monteverdi , a.o! Classical music never ends.
Anyone can learn to compose like this. Maybe not at the level of Mozart, but at some level. I didn't start playing piano until age 14, but by the age of 21, around my 3rd year of music school, I could compose orchestral music with no problem. As with anything it's all about study and practice.
What's amazing is that if you know what you want to do, it can be this straight-forward. I've had moments where I have some idea... A melody, supporting harmony in the lower voices, rhythmic elements, ornamentation. Nothing anywhere near this brilliant unfortunately. Mozart seems to have been, from everything I've seen, the most proficient at this type of composition probably ever. He had perfect pitch, which means when he heard it in his head, he also knew what it would look like on the page. There are questions about how much of Requiem he actually wrote, but Beethoven said of this piece, 'If Mozart did not write the music, then the man who wrote it was a Mozart.'
There is a very real possibility that Mozart was the greatest musician of all time. He wrote all styles of music that existed at the time and had over 600 complete works before his death. Bach wrote more but not nearly in as many styles and also lived almost twice as long as Mozart.
Crazy that his name was not Amadeus but more of a nickname they gave him. It means Love God. Prince used to write that everywhere in his first albums. He, like Mozart, were true and true composers. The requiem he writes was never finished. He literally died writing it. His last action was describing how the pulse of the basses *(drums) should sound. Remarkably short 35 years of life that still lives.
Sort of true; his official first names rendered in Latin were Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus, where Theophilus means the same in Greek as Amadeus does in Latin.
This is how people get hooked on Mozart and classical music in general. Mozart speaks the language of piano players who dominate music composition. Another video of this type can be seen on TH-cam as "Watch a prodigy create-from four notes in a hat " when journalist Scott Pelly interviewed child composer and piano prodigy Alma Deutscher who demonstrated composing for him. The TH-cam video entitled "Wagner's Dream: The Opening Bars of Rheingold" shows how Richard Wagner built a spectacular 14 hour set of four sequential operas called the Ring cycle starting with the single note of e-flat". The TH-cam videos entitled "Amazing! How Rachmaninov took Paganini and made the 18th variation" and "Rachmaninoff-Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Stephen Hough)" show how to compose by taking someone else's musical score and turning it upside down or otherwise playing with it.
He is not just composing, he is also orchestrating. I had a friend who was able to do this - it was miraculous to watch. While I love the movie "Amadeus" and it is well worth watching, the alleged "feud" between Mozart and Salieri is disputed by musical scholars. By all means; however, listen to the Requiem. It is sublime.
They, in fact, were friends.. Conflict in the story was needed for story telling. It stems from a fictional play written after both composers were dead. Literary license is taken in most biopic plays and movies. The only true downside is that people tend to see Hollywood movies as actual history and thus see Salieri as a selfish, jealous composer, which he wasn't...
Salieri was also a composwr and still was losing his mind with a dying Mozart bit thats bormsl caise Mozart was playimg for te pope at the age of 5 yo so he was on another level. A born genious.
I would like to request something far outside of your "musical comfort zone" so to speak. The Ligeti Requiem, specifically the Kyrie movement. The full thing is great too.
The music is central to Amadeus, but if you really pay attention, the movie (especially the original, theatrical release) is really about Salieri’s imagined battle with God. Don’t forget, the movie was narrated by Salieri while he was in an asylum, so he was not the most reliable narrator possible.
Composing is a gift and a talent. I'm not sure one can learn how to achieve great composition from the ground up. I think you have to have a certain innate gift to begin with and work from there. What is the ratio of good musicians to good composers?....maybe 10,000 to 1? Beethoven attempted to teach his nephew how to compose but failed. The great pianist, Vladimir Horowitz, tried his hand at composing and gave up.....said he wasn't very good at it. Are you familiar with the genius of Russian composer, Dimitri Shostakovich? Listen to his Symphony #10 played in London with conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. This composition first debuted in 1953. It's about 50+ minutes long but movements #2 and #4 are worth the wait. We know from Shostakovich's son, that Dimitri Shostakovich composed almost all of his work at the kitchen table....rarely, if ever, going to the piano to check his work. How was Shostakovich able to keep all the fireworks and insanity straight in his head while sitting at a table?.....that's the genius part.
It sure is a fun movie, but you must remember that it's all fantasy. We know who commissioned the Requiem, and it wasn't Salieri. And it wasn't him who Mozart dictated it to, either. There's no evidence that there was any rivalry between the two, or that Salieri even disliked Mozart. Entertaining, though :)
this film is based off an amusing play which fictionalises amadeus' life story and it makes no claim to be historical it is that large and very annoying misconception about this film that still will not yield
Very good movie. But historically a load of hogwash, especially this scene. Apart from that Salieri was never involved in any of this, what they are orchestrating here was never orchestrated by Mozart. His sketches to this movement exist. Here they are: th-cam.com/video/M_0wBTkkT7U/w-d-xo.html What we see in this scene is how Süssmayr orchestrated it after Mozart was dead. It remains a highly well writen scene, but no one should think any of this ever happened.
Il film W. Amadeus Mozart non meritava tutti quei premi: 1°) Mozart non hai mai scritto opere liriche o operette in lingua inglese, 2°)arbitrariamente Milos Forman ha dato una rappresentazione di Salieri veramente sconcia priva di qualsiasi valore storico, 3°) non credo proprio che la composizione del "Requiem" sia avventa così. L'unica nota positiva è che quel film tanti ragazzi si sono avvicinati ancor di più allo studio della musica classica. Se un giorno lei volesse approfondire l'argomento con documenti storici ne sarei felice, per il momento questo film per quanto ben realizzato non è la realtà storica degli eventi della vita di Mozart che ha passato la sua gioventù in Italia per accrescere il suo incommensurabile genio. Come al solito è stata fatta un'amerikanata, peccato.
True 90% of the play and the film is fictional but this is still and interesting scene to watch. I remember I first saw this back in college when it was new and from then on I became fascinated by Mozart.
not with salieri, that's probably right. there are examples with his father... if you are insinuating that Mozart couldn't "hear" it while writing, you're wrong
@@crashraynor That insinuation is illogical. We have no idea what Mozart's creative process was. We do know there are fewer signs of revision as with say Beethoven. So what? It's the result that counts.
False . I don't think anyone knows how Edgard varese composed. When Stravinsky composed The Rite of Spring he could not write it down - he heard it in his head but there was no Theory to base it on . It's in my Stravinsky playlist @@thethikboy
When the full movie reaction dropping ?
It's on my patreon, let me know if the link works! www.patreon.com/posts/amadeus-movie-80941864?Link&
@@GIDIREACTS yeah links works
@@GIDIREACTS Can't wait to see it my man!
The Vatican had commissioned a setting of "Miserere mei, Deus" from Gregorio Allegre, back in the 1630s. It was allowed to played only in the Sistine Chapel during Easter week. Copies of the score were kept secret.
In 1770, Mozart and his father attended. Wolfgang was 14. After the performance Mozart wrote out the entire score, for all nine vocal parts, from memory.
This is one of my favorite movies ever made. Best portrayal of seething jealousy over god-given talent that only a handful are given.
Yes, but historical inaccurate. Still, I love this movie.
A full watch is worth it! The thing won 8 Oscars and rightfully so. Top acting and, off course, soundtrack.
Mozart was a genius, an absolute GENIUS
This is without any doubt one of the greatest music movies ever - a true artwork and masterpiece directed by a legend (Milos Forman) with brillant actors - Mozart from young age to his death....you will LOVE IT. It is so charming, exciting, thrilling - you barely can't overstimate it. Enjoy!! P.S. It is historically not correct as it proven with almost certainty that Salieri did not kill Mozart, but this scene is Mozart dying in bed, getting help by his murder - so casptivating. The rest of the movie..said enough. Just enjoy.
"almost certainly" ahaahahahah
Not just a great music movie but one of the greatest movies ever. It won 9 academy awards and features the best acting I've ever seen.
That's not talent. That's pure genius!
I visited locations in prague where this was filmed in january and they were so stunning it was like stepping back in time despite it being 2023
Mozart was genuinely a musical genius and it is such a shame that he died at only 35yr old. I can only imagine what more he could have done if he had lived longer. He completely changed opera single handedly forever to stories that the common people could connect with like The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute.
Would have loved to see the completed version of the Great Mass in
C minor, which some say would have surpassed the Requiem :(
In the context of the movie, what I like about this scene is Salieri was the freaking court composer, composing for the Emperor, and he was lost following Mozart's train of thought with composing. Of course, this is all dramatized. In real life Salieri actually was a successful musician in his own right. Though his music is generally sub-par and not part of the standard repretoire, he was a great teacher who taught composition to classical music masters like Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and Franz Liszt. I'm sure he wouldn't have gotten lost like that taking dictation from Mozart.
Note: Mozart himself said composition didn't come easy to him. He actually had to work at it like everyone else. He wrote to a friend:
“People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to composition as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.”
Amadeus is a masterpiece! DO react to it, don't miss out. Other ppl nitpicking at it not being completely historical innacurate (esp concerning Salieri) are missing the point: the movie captures the essence and personality of Mozart and most importantly the genius of his music which is displayed magnificenctly & beautifully. Even more noteworthy, this film attempts the rare difficult feat of portraying the creative process in visual medium. As if it weren't enough, it's a deep conflicting psychological portrayal to the effect of works of beauty and genius on human psyche. It is emotionally gripping and has deep effect on viewers by the end as great art and storytelling tends to do. It's quite the experience...
Now I know how to compose music, I SHALL BE THE GREATEST COMPOSER WHO EVER LIVED. All because I saw this vid - lol !
What an incredible video of this scene to have found! I’ve never seen it from a composers point of view. Thanks so much!
I have many friends playing in this movie (not the major roles) and even didn't want go and see another movie about a composer ....But I went encouraged by my friend to see them.....WOW it was greatest movie experience ever and the most realistic impression how would genius musician live and die. ...trust me I shared accommodation with them....The Best Years of My life!
This is my 18 month old granddaughters favorite video, more than Super Kitties, no matter what she is doing she stops to watch this, completely focused. She has seen it well over 100 times. As well as the"Non piu andrai". She also loves classical composers played on piano with lighted notes, like Vivaldi, Beethoven
Bach and Chopin.
She's a weird kid, but highly focused
She likes it because of the little coloured notes dancing with the music...
Hi Gidi ! It's Sandrine from France. I don't comment that much but I've been following you from the start. And from the start, I'd like you to watch that movie. Honestly, if there is any possibility that you can make a video of you watching it (and yes, this time you'll be allowed to pause as much as your want to share your reactions !!), please do it. I would be thrilled to re-discover it through your eyes ! I was 12 when I saw it the first time : I was unable to speak for one week, completely overwhelmed by these so paradoxal feelings and emotions from this talented guy (Salieri) facing a... genius. You MUST watch it !
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Lili Boulangier and Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov were the most talented not only composers but orchestrators too.
With great influence to other composers. And not the only ones.
But theese are my three beloved ones .
Before them and after them were others . Like Bach, Mendelson , Debussy, Tscaikovsky, Schuman, Schubert ,Orff , Vivaldi , Stravinsky, Khatzaturian, Prokofiev, Puccini, Glazunov,Verdi ,Berlioz, Bizet, Monteverdi , a.o! Classical music never ends.
If you havn't watched the movie AMADEUS yet, it's really a great watch, I have seen it 4 times. One of my fav period piece movies
Anyone can learn to compose like this. Maybe not at the level of Mozart, but at some level. I didn't start playing piano until age 14, but by the age of 21, around my 3rd year of music school, I could compose orchestral music with no problem. As with anything it's all about study and practice.
What's amazing is that if you know what you want to do, it can be this straight-forward. I've had moments where I have some idea... A melody, supporting harmony in the lower voices, rhythmic elements, ornamentation. Nothing anywhere near this brilliant unfortunately. Mozart seems to have been, from everything I've seen, the most proficient at this type of composition probably ever. He had perfect pitch, which means when he heard it in his head, he also knew what it would look like on the page. There are questions about how much of Requiem he actually wrote, but Beethoven said of this piece, 'If Mozart did not write the music, then the man who wrote it was a Mozart.'
This is amazing! What a video.
There is a very real possibility that Mozart was the greatest musician of all time. He wrote all styles of music that existed at the time and had over 600 complete works before his death. Bach wrote more but not nearly in as many styles and also lived almost twice as long as Mozart.
The movie won 8 oscars in 1984 where it meant something.
Great acting!
Hopefully, you got an opportunity to watch this film from beginning to end. It literally changed my life. Mozart was and is the king.
Crazy that his name was not Amadeus but more of a nickname they gave him. It means Love God. Prince used to write that everywhere in his first albums. He, like Mozart, were true and true composers. The requiem he writes was never finished. He literally died writing it. His last action was describing how the pulse of the basses *(drums) should sound. Remarkably short 35 years of life that still lives.
Sort of true; his official first names rendered in Latin were Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus, where Theophilus means the same in Greek as Amadeus does in Latin.
This is how people get hooked on Mozart and classical music in general. Mozart speaks the language of piano players who dominate music composition. Another video of this type can be seen on TH-cam as "Watch a prodigy create-from four notes in a hat " when journalist Scott Pelly interviewed child composer and piano prodigy Alma Deutscher who demonstrated composing for him. The TH-cam video entitled "Wagner's Dream: The Opening Bars of Rheingold" shows how Richard Wagner built a spectacular 14 hour set of four sequential operas called the Ring cycle starting with the single note of e-flat". The TH-cam videos entitled "Amazing! How Rachmaninov took Paganini and made the 18th variation" and "Rachmaninoff-Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Stephen Hough)" show how to compose by taking someone else's musical score and turning it upside down or otherwise playing with it.
He is not just composing, he is also orchestrating. I had a friend who was able to do this - it was miraculous to watch.
While I love the movie "Amadeus" and it is well worth watching, the alleged "feud" between Mozart and Salieri is disputed by musical scholars.
By all means; however, listen to the Requiem. It is sublime.
They, in fact, were friends.. Conflict in the story was needed for story telling. It stems from a fictional play written after both composers were dead. Literary license is taken in most biopic plays and movies. The only true downside is that people tend to see Hollywood movies as actual history and thus see Salieri as a selfish, jealous composer, which he wasn't...
he composed it in his head cuz he had perfect pitch
What is the song from the intro? I really like it!
Oh YES please react to it !!!! PLEAAASE xD
The song always brings tears to my eyes
What about making a reaction video of the whole movie?
Salieri was also a composwr and still was losing his mind with a dying Mozart bit thats bormsl caise Mozart was playimg for te pope at the age of 5 yo so he was on another level. A born genious.
I love this movie! If you watch it, watch the Director's Edition. More great scenes that really flesh out the characters and story!
Did they remake this movie with computer graphics? I don't recall the graphics.
It was a TH-cam video made to illustrate the composition in the scene.
I would like to request something far outside of your "musical comfort zone" so to speak. The Ligeti Requiem, specifically the Kyrie movement. The full thing is great too.
Hope GIDI can react to Chopin’s Sonata in B minor op58,there are 4 mvts,such a impressive piece!
wonderful movie, I love it
Pure fiction but he was an ACTUAL genius
and live:)
4 months later - You've still has not seen it. WATCH THE MOVIE! AMADEUS. Your quote: "I have to watch THIS MOVIE!" - After 4 months - Not a Thing.
Guys, Mozart is the music!
Thanks
The music is central to Amadeus, but if you really pay attention, the movie (especially the original, theatrical release) is really about Salieri’s imagined battle with God. Don’t forget, the movie was narrated by Salieri while he was in an asylum, so he was not the most reliable narrator possible.
Composing is a gift and a talent. I'm not sure one can learn how to achieve great composition from the ground up. I think you have to have a certain innate gift to begin with and work from there. What is the ratio of good musicians to good composers?....maybe 10,000 to 1?
Beethoven attempted to teach his nephew how to compose but failed. The great pianist, Vladimir Horowitz, tried his hand at composing and gave up.....said he wasn't very good at it.
Are you familiar with the genius of Russian composer, Dimitri Shostakovich? Listen to his Symphony #10 played in London with conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. This composition first debuted in 1953. It's about 50+ minutes long but movements #2 and #4 are worth the wait. We know from Shostakovich's son, that Dimitri Shostakovich composed almost all of his work at the kitchen table....rarely, if ever, going to the piano to check his work. How was Shostakovich able to keep all the fireworks and insanity straight in his head while sitting at a table?.....that's the genius part.
It sure is a fun movie, but you must remember that it's all fantasy. We know who commissioned the Requiem, and it wasn't Salieri. And it wasn't him who Mozart dictated it to, either. There's no evidence that there was any rivalry between the two, or that Salieri even disliked Mozart. Entertaining, though :)
this film is based off an amusing play which fictionalises amadeus' life story and it makes no claim to be historical
it is that large and very annoying misconception about this film that still will not yield
Beethoven demorou anos e/ou meses pra escrever cada uma de suas sinfonias.
Very good movie.
But historically a load of hogwash, especially this scene. Apart from that Salieri was never involved in any of this, what they are orchestrating here was never orchestrated by Mozart. His sketches to this movement exist. Here they are: th-cam.com/video/M_0wBTkkT7U/w-d-xo.html
What we see in this scene is how Süssmayr orchestrated it after Mozart was dead.
It remains a highly well writen scene, but no one should think any of this ever happened.
Don't believe a word om this film Amadeus. The film may perhaps accurately depict Mozart's character but everything else is mostly pure invention.
This is fictional, we only know that Confutatis har several handwriting's, There is Mozart and then there where many more to try to finalist it.
Il film W. Amadeus Mozart non meritava tutti quei premi: 1°) Mozart non hai mai scritto opere liriche o operette in lingua inglese, 2°)arbitrariamente Milos Forman ha dato una rappresentazione di Salieri veramente sconcia priva di qualsiasi valore storico, 3°) non credo proprio che la composizione del "Requiem" sia avventa così. L'unica nota positiva è che quel film tanti ragazzi si sono avvicinati ancor di più allo studio della musica classica. Se un giorno lei volesse approfondire l'argomento con documenti storici ne sarei felice, per il momento questo film per quanto ben realizzato non è la realtà storica degli eventi della vita di Mozart che ha passato la sua gioventù in Italia per accrescere il suo incommensurabile genio. Come al solito è stata fatta un'amerikanata, peccato.
Second!
Great movie but historically inaccurate! It's almost disrespectful to the memory of Mozart.
The movie is based on a play - which is pure fiction. The scene of the movie you played never happened.
True 90% of the play and the film is fictional but this is still and interesting scene to watch. I remember I first saw this back in college when it was new and from then on I became fascinated by Mozart.
@@ralphangioli4852 It's not showing how composers compose.
not with salieri, that's probably right. there are examples with his father... if you are insinuating that Mozart couldn't "hear" it while writing, you're wrong
@@crashraynor That insinuation is illogical. We have no idea what Mozart's creative process was. We do know there are fewer signs of revision as with say Beethoven. So what? It's the result that counts.
False . I don't think anyone knows how Edgard varese composed. When Stravinsky composed The Rite of Spring he could not write it down - he heard it in his head but there was no Theory to base it on . It's in my Stravinsky playlist @@thethikboy
Dies Irae Dies Illa Solvut Saeclum in Favilla.