Chopin and Schubert Cameo? (SPOILERS)

"the composer" are actually 3 guys.

norbert jürgen schneider was responsible for the orchestrations.

hubert von goisern (famous austrian "world musician" did the "rural-nes" and a lot of the sound design.

harald feller is the organist playing on an organ in a church in salzburg who basically improvised the organ passages, including the finale furioso.

From a symbolic view, you make an interesting point (more on that later). But on the practical level - no. I wrote my grad school thesis on Schubert, and the research revealed repeatedly that while he was a perfectly capable pianist, and could, of course, play the organ (which he did), he was no virtuoso. Schubert was 5'1 1/2" tall - and had hands to match. Chopin (a fine keyboard performer) to my knowledge never touched the organ, or at least never seriously wrote for, or improvised on it.

Symbolically, though, the "appearance" (physically) of the other organists strongly implied Schubert and Chopin-like *characters*, yes - I.E: the German musical "establishment" (the Germanic symbolism in the film is sledgehammer heavy). That said, I did like the movie a lot, though as an organist I cringed at the poor technical smoothness. By that I mean that most movies featuring a keyboard virtuoso use a combination of excellent coaching for the star themselves in distance shots, and a true virtuoso for the "hands" (and feet) closeup shots. That was only too obviously not done in this film, though only a keyboard player would recognize it, hence it's a minor complaint.