Other composers
What composer would you like to see a film about?
Schumann-Brahms-Clara Schumann would be interesting
A better movie about chopin
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Rossini. He wrote the William Tell Overture and The Barber of Seville and the rape scene music in Stanley Kubrik's "A Clockwork Orange". He wrote his first opera at age 14. He was world famous at 21. He wrote the Barber of Seville in 2 weeks. He had a French mistress, who he married after his first wife died. He retired at age 37 and didn't write another opera for the last 40 years of his life. For 20 years he was very sick and depressed and contemplated suicide. He was worth one million US dollars when he died at age 76.
shareI agree Rossini would be great!
Oh, it's called The Thieving Magpie, the music you referred to as the rape scene music in A Clockwork Orange.
All the replies above are excellent suggestions. I might add Handel, for his mix of bad temper and good manners, humor and loneliness, busy social life and mistery of love life etc.
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Charles Ives' childhood
Shostakovich / Stalin
Cornelius Cardew (who was an anarchist and chose to be homeless and whose hit-and-run death has been considered "suspicious")
Brahms / Schumanns too (with the events surrounding Brahms' Edison recording featured too)
Charles Ives would be awesome... I live in the town he was raised in.. in CT. We still have his house... it's a museum now.
innywho... I read that Joseph Finness (sp?) the actor who played Will Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love will be playing Vivaldi in a new film on the composer's life, legacy.. etc.
WOOT!
Dimitri Shostakovich. He went through alot of persecution in the Soviet Union. His life had the flavor of tragedy that many great composers have had.
shareI would love to see a film about Schumann and Brahms too!
Another suggestion is Tchaikovski. His life is also full of passion and very interesting!
Have you seen "the Music Lovers" by Ken Russel, about Tchaikovsky? If you like both Tchaikovsky and Ken Russel, I would strongly recommend the film.
shareI have hated Tchaikovsky ever since seeing that horrible Ken Russell film. Decades later, all I can bear to listen to are the 1812 Overture, and maybe a little of the waltz from Eugene Onegin. No symphonies, no concertos, no ballets, not ever.
David Popper
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