Mozart

14 years ago

>If Mozart was alive today, he'd be...

Really old.

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thunderbird 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

>If Mozart was alive today, he'd be...

Really old.

Right. OK. Let's say reincarnated.

What do you bet a movie about this will come out?

A rap star has strange dreams, discovers he is the reincarnation of Mozart and must complete a musical composition to stop the end of the world.

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Kurt

14 years ago

If he were reincarnated, he'd probably be a sitar player.

OK....He'd be the conductor for the Boston Philharmonic, or maybe a member of the Dixie Dregs, or a jingle writer...

Bach would have been a headbanger...

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KimW

14 years ago

You areadly asnwered it, B: A rock star:

YouTube - Rock Me Amadeus - Falco HQ

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Bill Farnham

14 years ago

Some have said for years that Mozart has been reincarnated...

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TimPhelan

14 years ago

How about a Jazz musician? Like Miles Davis? In my opinion, nobody in the last century can come as close to Mozart than Miles Davis. He is the Picasso of music because of his many styles and extraordinary talent.

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thunderbird

14 years ago

Originally Posted by TimPhelan

How about a Jazz musician? Like Miles Davis? In my opinion, nobody in the last century can come as close to Mozart than Miles Davis. He is the Picasso of music because of his many styles and extraordinary talent.

I think you're absolutely right! You can't fake jazz. I'm musically untalented, but I could mechanically play out classical songs on guitar and fool people into thinking I actually play it, when in fact I didn't since it was a *purely* mechanical process on my part. Improvised jazz without sheets of music to read, not mechanically played, cannot be faked. Mozart liked to improvise and embellish, and had a playful flamboyance to his nature. Jazz would make a lot of sense for the reincarnation of Mozart.

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Crazee Hippee 14 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

You areadly asnwered it, B: A rock star:
YouTube - Rock Me Amadeus - Falco HQ

That bought back some memories!
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daleron

14 years ago

If he didn't have parents to guide him from the age of two:

a maytag repair man
own an antique shop
hi-lo driver @ united steel....i don't know :confused:

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thunderbird 14 years ago

Originally Posted by daleron

If he didn't have parents to guide him from the age of two:

a maytag repair man
own an antique shop
hi-lo driver @ united steel....i don't know :confused:

That kind of stuff did cross my mind, sure. In a way, it would be intriguing if Mozart's reincarnation worked, say, in demolition and started hearing the music to Mozart's unwritten works. One of my brothers owned an antique shop for a while. Come to think of it, I interpreted for Chinese antique dealers (an eccentric bunch, not likely prospects to be accepted for immigration into Canada lol).
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KenThompson 14 years ago

Originally Posted by daleron

If he didn't have parents to guide him from the age of two:

a maytag repair man
own an antique shop
hi-lo driver @ united steel....i don't know :confused:

Not only guide him, but his father was his manager, promoter, attorney,
press spokesman, and personal adviser. The personal sacrifices made by
his father to market and promote young Mozart's talent are well-documented.

The world owes much to Mozart the elder for Mozart the younger's music.

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daleron

14 years ago

I like Mozart's music

In the music theory classes I took when I was younger we used to analyze every note, phrasing and chord structure of his simplier sonatas.

His music is so rudimentary and basic but at the same time so enjoyable to listen to.

But let's not forget that it's a different time, so many distractions.

You figure if Mozart hit puberty in this day and age....teenage girls in painted jeans, constant peer pressure and wedgies from carrying around music books, having too much fun on his iPhone to learn his meter and rhyme....well you get the picture.

But with todays technology, I bet he could come up with some awesome stuff!

dale

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I.M.Retired

14 years ago

Thunderbird: Never start a thread about Mozart. I will completely take it over, hog it, post pages and pages of text, articles and everything else I can find remotely related to Mozart - and quite frankly, become a major pain in the extreme lower back area. In short - Mozart is my favorite composer - everything about him fascinates me.

If Mozart were alive today he would be married to me. His world would be my living room. He would be chained to my piano.

I would take him out for a walk at least once a day and make sure he was adequately fed and watered. The rest of the time he would be required to compose music and play the piano non-stop. No one but me would be allowed to listen to his music!

Okaaaay......moving right along...

I can only imagine what Mozart's music would be like if he had had access to a piano such as we have in today's modern world.

According to Wikipedia:

Mozart's piano was a very different instrument from the one we know today. The instrument's original name was "gravi-cembalo con piano e forte" - a "harpsichord that can play loud and soft" like our modern pianos. When this modern instrument (in Mozart's day) it was first developed in 18th-century Italy it was the first keyboard instrument which could vary the dynamics on one keyboard, using hammers to hit the keys instead of the plucking quills of the harpsichord.

I think Mozart would have 'gone nuts' on today's piano. It grieves me to think he never lived to see it.

Okay - having said all that, I think Mozart would not only be 'very old'

as mentioned by Kurt, he also would be very much in need of a new hair-do!

If he managed to escape from Vienna, (and/or my living room...) his musical career would probably be long forgotten once he started his new life as a surf bum in Hawaii. Having listened to music by the 'Beach Boys' he just might take a notion to rewrite 'Surfin' USA' as a piano concerto in nine-part, contrapuntal harmony. On a windless day, of course!

Maybe Ethan Bortnick will be the one to take over where Mozart left off?