I'll grant you that while I wasn't there, and Mozart was not known as
a vocalist ala Elvis, he was quite the child star. It is generally
believed that the piano and violin playing Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus)
and his older sister the harpsichordist Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia
(called "Nannerl" as a nickname) worked what could be called a
"vaudeville act" as children doing the German, Austrian, Parisian and
Italian Royalty circuit.
She was about 5 years older than her brother and originally received
top billing in the "act". Their "act" consisted of trading
instruments during pieces, demonstrating their youthful compositions,
singing their own songs, doing popular music of the time, and making
up pieces (including songs) on the spot for the royalty that was
employing them.
As Nannerl grew older, the novelty of a young child performer was
replaced by the repression of the time forbidding young women to
have careers outside of the home and marriage. Once she reached
"marriageable age, the act broke up and Wolfgang went out on his own.
Mozart thought Nannerl a fantastic composer too, but because of her
gender, very little of her adult music was ever performed; she far
worse off professionally than her famous brother and his complaints
about not getting commissions or performances. She was "banished" to
an arranged marriage with a much older (twice widowed) wealthy magistrate.
Perhaps Oliver Stone could set the record straight with a future film.
It is worth noting that with both this topic and the Scorsese thread
that no one has mentioned The Last Waltz. It was a film/documentary
which was a big departure for Martin Scorsese.
While it technically related to only a single concert performance, it
was also biographical in the sense that it chronicled the lives of The
Band and their 15 or so years as a group. All of that was interwoven
into the concert footage.
I written too much now and I will stop for the day.
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You see what you can learn on MoPo?
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Dave Rosen <hah...@sympatico.ca
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Mozart was a singer?
Dave
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Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Doors, Walk the Line and Amadeus
were all popular during their time
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Yes! Coal Miner's Daughter is awesome!!
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Coal Miner's Daughter, Ray and...Walk Hard: The Dewey
Cox Story. ;-)
Dave
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The Buddy Holly Story was under-appreciated, IMHO.
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FUNNY GIRL with Barbara Streisand
DORTHY DANDRIDGE with Holly Berry
WALK THE LINE with Joaquin Phoenix
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME with Doris Day
HANK WILLIAMS with George Hamilton (kind of kitchy
though)
ELVIS PRESLEY with Kurt Russell
Toochis
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A few that come to mind, right off the bat--
LADY SINGS THE BLUES, with Diana Ross
THE JOLSON STORY, with Larry Parks
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME, with Doris Day
Jeff
On Feb 20, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
All this talk about a Sinatra movie biography got
me wondering if there is really a need for more
biographies of great pop singers. What WERE the
best film biographies of popular singers?
Bruce
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