Desperately Seeking Mozart
Monday 17 July 2006 21:00-22:00 (Radio 3)
The name Mozart is one of the most powerful commercial brands on the planet. Since his birth 250 years ago this week, he has been the subject of endless mythologising in historical accounts, biographies, plays, novels and films. But is it possible to uncover the real Wolfgang Amadeus? Who is the Mozart who emerges in the 21st Century? A prodigiously clever, chaotic, and infantile composer or a deeper, more considered artist, managing a successful freelance career? And could the truth help us to listen to Mozart's music with fresh and innocent ears?
Paul Robertson sets out in search of the real Mozart, speaking to academics who have dedicated their life's work to paring away the mythology, as well as brain scientists, child psychologists and performers.
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