Indulgence: The Biography of Mozart

Maynard 2021-10-18 19:50:59

Like most children who grew up under the red flag, I learned from textbooks that there was a name called'Mozart' since I was a child. However, I don't know anything about the other names behind this name.
I could have been so ignorant to the end. However, that day, in a movie called "The Shawshank's Redemption", Ande was in a hellish prison. He turned on the loudspeaker and let the music fly over the entire prison. All the prisoners If you understand, or don’t understand, at that moment, you stop and listen quietly.
That music also floated into my heart. In the past, I didn’t even know that music can make people fascinated and intoxicated. It is as pure and beautiful as a woman created by God from nothingness. You can only be enveloped by that light, but you can’t. Explore the mystery hidden behind. For this reason, I ask people:
'Why can music be so beautiful? '
'Because it represents the endless unknown, it is closer to the truth of the world than poetry. "That elegant, once angry poet, but now, only with the dreams he had, the outstanding middle-class young man who wants to reconcile with life replied.
His favorite is Mozart. Mozart has never been angry. His music is flowing water, and it has never brought half of the sadness to the world. His music is like a deer jumping in the mountains, and like a spring, gentle and not delicate. , Beautiful but not luxurious, just like an angel who came to the world, singing only joy!
I tried hard to get close to Mozart. I wanted to get close to angels. My original desire was very vulgar. I wanted to get close to the heart of that outstanding young man through angels. I thought it was a noble heart with the soul of a troubadour. My ignorance of music and poetry is like my eyes blinded by the dust of the countryside for many years. Before such a delicate heart, I feel ashamed of myself. There is no choice but to throw in those wonderful notes and verses. And those grand beauty finally gave me a tremor. In the quiet night, I sometimes tremble, except for this heart that opened to the dark and began to learn to open to the infinite ultimate music, what else do I have? I deplore that I knew it too late, I was ecstatic to finally meet it with myself, looking up, only the grave, then, all the way back, I can finally be forgiven.

Those music-related movies have also come into my collection. "Cello in Love" tells the story of the most famous musical genius in British history-a female cellist named Jackie, Jackie and her sister Hilary They all have the same musical talents. However, one has a fierce temperament, paranoid, and fanatical, while the other is gentle, gentle, and meticulous, and his character determines his destiny. The former becomes a world-famous cellist, and the latter becomes an amateur flutist and an ordinary family. For women, the other side of their fate is that the former died young, did a lot of crazy and extreme things that were not understood by outsiders, and died of loneliness, while the latter survived this life safely.
This is the difference between genius and mortal!
The genius must be paranoid, fierce, fanatical, and have a kind of determination and persistence in the things that he likes, while the genius has to be ignorant of the world and people, and is trapped in the entanglement with the world for life. While the world loves it, the relationship with a small world around him has repeatedly fought and remained deadlocked.
There is a scene in "The Cello Love": Jackie is alone in the center of the music field. All the audience and the performers are indifferent. Only she is dressed in bright clothes and plays the violin alone. Her head is high and sometimes low. The body is integrated with music, the world disappears, love disappears, all the basic characteristics of being a person can be hidden, only music remains, belonging to the lonely woman in the crowd.

All geniuses go crazy, I thought that Mozart would be the exception. Such peaceful, soothing, and beautiful music, no wonder everyone with a pair of aesthetic ears will fall in love with it. Not everyone can understand Van Gogh's madness or Beethoven's anger. However, everyone knows how to appreciate beauty. Then, to create a beautiful person, he himself must be beautiful, as elegant as his music, jumping happily on the sheet music.
The filming method of "Mozart" is contrary to my expectations. It does not tell the story from Mozart's own growth. It tells the story through the mouth of another musician Salieri, telling the story in the eyes of mediocrity and the world. Poor splurge, that clown-like man, that poor innocent child, that the only man in history who can be called a musical genius-Mozart!

There are a few details that are hard to forget.
1. A priest called to confess to the elderly Salieri. Salieri hummed a few of his own compositions. The priest shook his head and didn’t know. Salieri reluctantly hummed Mozart’s "Serenade". The priest hummed along with him. , Even sitting in front of the screen couldn't help but hum the tune to the beat of the tap.
2. When Mozart entered the court of Vienna for the first time, the king was playing Salieri's music lamely. Mozart only listened to it once, and played it completely, and improvised it to make the tone more harmonious. , Perfect and smooth.
3. When Mozart was about to die, Salieri recorded "Requiem" for Mozart with ulterior motives, and Mozart dictated it. In this way, a legendary chapter was born. In contrast, Salieri knelt before the idol, begging God for inspiration. Poor man, God gave him eyes to distinguish between good and bad, gave him his love for music, and let him walk into the door of the music hall, but he didn't let him come closer, so that he could see himself clearly. Mediocre-that kind of pain is no lighter than the jealous genius.

There is no denying the beauty of this movie. It is said that it won eight Oscars that year. All the music is taken from Mozart, the lightness of "Serenade", the sad fate of "Requiem", the gorgeousness of "The Wedding of Figaro" In many scenes, Mozart’s opera fragments were selected. Those happy and bright music followed all the bad luck imposed on Mozart. The music continued to advance, the rhythm became faster and faster, and the tone gradually became darker. The gaze of Salieri, who was watching the genius closely, became more and more gloomy, setting up one trap after another, and Mozart had nowhere to escape!
So he must die young. In fact, his early death should be considered a blessing. To endure a lot of unbearable suffering in such a glitzy world, it is better to return to God earlier. I would rather regard the song "Requiem" as a call of God. He felt that although he was a little bit reluctant, some chapters were never completed, but he still obeyed his orders.
Merely understanding Salieri as that Salieri who has really existed in history does not seem to fully explain the problem. Perhaps the director used him to express all jealous mediocrities. Genius is always lonely, living in an era full of mediocrity, music is not understood, life is rough, and family burden. However, all of this can only bring out Mozart's childlike heart, and his heart takes all misfortunes away. It is clarified that behind the clown smile is the clear gaze of the angel, and the beautiful music is like flowing water.

In fact, there are many music lovers in this world, but Liao Ruochenxing who really understands music. In the film, the only person who really understands Mozart's music is Salieri, who kept setting up obstacles for him, and finally forced him to go to death. Only when he understands his greatness and immortality, and sees that he will never enter the door of God's favored one, can he desperately swear by Mozart's music with ecstasy or tears. : Be sure to destroy the favored one.
Those who love music, the emperors of Austria, the ladies of the court, the musicians, the royal composers, the people, and the middle-aged class in the distant Asian continent after hundreds of years. Young people and mountain women, these lay people, they did not understand the content of the story. They intuitively felt the call of the angel, but they did not know where the call came from, why, where it would go, and they did not know the innocent and suffering man like a clown. He is ultimately the messenger chosen by God to spread the gospel from heaven in the world.

One day, in class, I talked about Mozart, I said:
He is an angle. His music only speaks of inner peace, love and happiness. He never shows sadness and anger. He is from heaven, from God.
In class, some children's eyes shone brightly. Alas, they will listen to Mozart and be moved. Another door was pushed open, Alas, Mozart, the master of music, the god and spirit of music, music is your slave, Alas, those distant figures, all the poems, music, walking, and things related to God I am always grateful for nonsense! Alas, I might actually appreciate the passion and anger like the Beatoclan fighters. However, for the sake of beauty, for the music from heaven, cheers!
Forgive me, I don't understand music in the end!

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Amadeus quotes

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Why must I submit samples of my work to some stupid committee just to teach a thirteen-year-old girl?

    Count Von Strack: Because His Majesty wishes it.

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Is the emperor angry with me?

    Count Von Strack: Quite the contrary.

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Then why doesn't he simply appoint me to the post?

    Count Von Strack: Mozart, you are not the *only* composer in Vienna.

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: No, but I'm the best!

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: [of his great opera "Figaro"] Nine performances! Nine, that's all it's had! And withdrawn!

    Antonio Salieri: I know, I know, it's outrageous. Still, if the public doesn't like one's work, one has to accept the fact gracefully.

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: But what is it that they don't like?

    Antonio Salieri: I can speak for the Emperor. You make too many demands on the royal ear. The poor man can't concentrate for more than an hour... you gave him four.

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: What did you think of it yourself? Did you like it at all?

    Antonio Salieri: I thought it was marvelous.

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Of course! It's the best opera yet written, I know it... why didn't they come?

    Antonio Salieri: I think you overestimate our dear Viennese, my friend. You know you didn't even give them a good *bang* at the end of songs, to let them know when to clap?

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: I know, I know... maybe you should give me some lessons in that.