NET Festival; 34; Rise and Fall of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Series
- NET Festival
- Episode Number
- 34
- Producing Organization
- British Broadcasting Corporation
- Office de radiodiffusion-tlvision franaise
- Contributing Organization
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/512-hx15m6369p
- NOLA Code
- NFRF
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Utilizing film footage of the locales in which Mozart lived and worked, his letters and the letters of those close to him, sketches, paintings, music manuscripts and other archival material, as well as brief excerpts from his music, this program tells the tragic life story of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from the time he left the service of the Archbishop of Salzburg in 1781 until his death at the age of 35 ten years later. Already a prolific and experienced composer by the time he left the service of the Archbishop, Mozart embarked on a successful freelance career as a pianist, composer, and fashionable teacher in Vienna. He was, in fact, the first composer in the eighteenth century to move outside the normal sphere of aristocratic patronage and carve out an independent career for himself. But the experiment, after a period of hectic influence, was a failure, and Mozart died destitute and ignored. From the day of his marriage to Constanze Weber, sister of his first love Aloysia, to that of his premature death, Mozart was always in financial difficulties. His opera Le Nozze di Figaro, with its political implications, did not help his career, though in the city of Prague it was received with acclaim, and led to commissions for his Prague Symphony and later the opera Don Giovanni. The next few years were highlighted by his operas Cosi Fan Tutti and La Clemenza di Tito, this last to celebrate the coronation of the new emperor Leopold II at Prague but Mozart remained penniless. About this time there appeared a mysterious stranger who commissioned Mozart to write a Requiem for an anonymous patron. Mozart died before the work, a strange portend, was completed. NET Festival The Rise and Fall of Mozart is a National Educational Television presentation. A co-production of the British Broadcasting Corporation and ORF. Produced by Barry Gavin. Narrator and scriptwriter is H.C. Robbins Landon, the American musicologist. NET producer: Tom Slevin. FILLER INFORMATION: Jacques Loussiers Play Bach trio in a jazz version of Johann Sebastian Bachs Chorale Sleepers Awake. (7 minutes, 25 seconds) (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Episode Description
- Hour-long program produced in black and white on videotape.
- Series Description
- NET Festival is an anthology series of performing arts programming.
- Broadcast Date
- 1968-08-04
- Asset type
- Episode
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Narrator: Landon, H. C. Robbins
Producer: Gavin, Barry
Producing Organization: British Broadcasting Corporation
Producing Organization: Office de radiodiffusion-tlvision franaise
Writer: Slevin, Tom
Writer: Landon, H. C. Robbins (Howard Chandler Robbins), 1926-2009
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2410314-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
Color: B&W
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2410314-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 1 inch videotape: SMPTE Type C
Generation: Master
Color: B&W
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2410314-3 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: U-matic
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
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- Citations
- Chicago: “NET Festival; 34; Rise and Fall of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,” 1968-08-04, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 25, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-hx15m6369p.
- MLA: “NET Festival; 34; Rise and Fall of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.” 1968-08-04. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 25, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-hx15m6369p>.
- APA: NET Festival; 34; Rise and Fall of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-hx15m6369p