You cannot be serious. According to the DVD interview of the movie Amadeus, Tom Hulce studied which tennis star's mood swings for his portrayal of Mozart's unpredictable genius?
"You Cannot Be Serious You Cannot Be Serious ( in the USA, Serious in the UK) is a book written by the world's former #1 tennis player John McEnroe (with James Kaplan). McEnroe details life behind the scenes on the tennis tour and provides the reader with a very candid look at his personal life and struggles. The book made it to the top of the ""New York Times"" bestseller list. The hardcover edition was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 2002, with the paperback being released a year later by The Berkley Publishing Group in the USA, and by"
"Amadeus Mozart and John Philip Sousa). Despite receiving generally positive reviews, the film garnered a lot of controversy during its release, from Tom Clancy disowning the film, to critics complaining it was too different from the book. Nonetheless the film has earned a 73% ""Fresh"" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 37 reviews. Roger Ebert called it ""absorbing"" while also commenting how actor Harrison Ford ""once again demonstrates what a solid, convincing actor he is"". Chris Hicks of the ""Deseret News"" mentioned how director Noyce gave the film ""flourish and tension"" while star Harrison Ford injected ""a commanding sense of"
"Tom Hulce Thomas Edward Hulce (; born December 6, 1953) is an American actor, singer and theater producer. As an actor, he is best known for his role as Larry ""Pinto"" Kroger in ""Animal House"" (1978), his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in ""Amadeus"" (1984), and his role as Quasimodo in Disney's ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1996). Additional acting awards included four Golden Globe nominations, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. Hulce retired from acting in the mid-1990s to focus on stage directing and producing. In 2007, he won a Tony Award as a lead producer"
"are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia and it doesn't have to be true. I'm comfortable being among the lists [of openly gay actors] although I stopped acting about 10 years ago."" Theater awards: Film/Television awards See Filmography below Tom Hulce Thomas Edward Hulce (; born December 6, 1953) is an American actor, singer and theater producer. As an actor, he is best known for his role as Larry ""Pinto"" Kroger in ""Animal House"" (1978), his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in ""Amadeus"" (1984), and his role as Quasimodo in Disney's ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"""
"Lisa realizes that Marge's telling of the lives of Mozart and Salieri is clearly based upon the movie ""Amadeus"". She calls the movie completely inaccurate, explaining that Mozart worked hard on his music and that Salieri was a celebrated composer in his own time. Homer recalls that Tom Hulce starred both in ""Amadeus"" and in ""Animal House"", and he sings an inaccurate rendition of the ""Animal House"" theme over the epilogue. The episode ends with a facetious epilogue followed by closing credits accompanied by Mozart's ""Eine kleine Nachtmusik"": Some items seen in the library are 'Everybody Poops: The Video"", ""Yu-Gi-Oh!"
"portrays the composer as a pioneering visionary. The title refers to Mozart's middle name Amadeus (Latin for ""love God"") and to the aphorism ""he whom the gods love, dies young"" (Latin: """") from Plautus' ""Bacchides"", lines 816–17, and earlier Greek sources, including Homer's mention of Trophonius; Mozart died at the age of 35. A British film of the same title had been released in 1936. Whom the Gods Love (1942 film) Whom the Gods Love (German:Wen die Götter lieben) is a 1942 Austrian historical musical film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Hans Holt, Irene von Meyendorff and Winnie Markus."
"as a source of inspiration for his portrayal of Mozart's unpredictable genius. Meg Tilly was cast as Mozart's wife Constanze, but she tore a ligament in her leg the day before shooting started. She was replaced by Elizabeth Berridge. Simon Callow, who played Mozart in the original London stage production of ""Amadeus"", was cast as Emanuel Schikaneder, the librettist of ""The Magic Flute"". The film was shot on location in Prague and Kroměříž. Notably, Forman was able to shoot scenes in the Count Nostitz Theatre in Prague, where ""Don Giovanni"" and ""La clemenza di Tito"" debuted two centuries before. Several"
"be drawn only from the source of innate genius. The Hungarian poet Ferenc Kazinczy was in the audience for a May performance, and later remembered the powerful impression the work made on him: [Nancy] Storace [see below], the beautiful singer, enchanted eye, ear, and soul. – Mozart directed the orchestra, playing his fortepiano; the joy which this music causes is so far removed from all sensuality that one cannot speak of it. Where could words be found that are worthy to describe such joy? Joseph Haydn appreciated the opera greatly, writing to a friend that he heard it in his"
"Amadeus (film) Amadeus is a 1984 American period drama film directed by Miloš Forman, adapted by Peter Shaffer from his stage play ""Amadeus"". The story, set in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the 18th century, is a fictionalized biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart's music is heard extensively in the soundtrack of the film. The film follows Italian composer Antonio Salieri's rivalry with Mozart at the court of Emperor Joseph II. The film was nominated for 53 awards and received 40, which included eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture), four BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, and a Directors"
"an illusionist, Tiger Woods a golfer, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and Donald Trump are entrepreneurs, Albert Einstein a scientist; Mozart and Beethoven classical composers; Luciano Pavarotti an opera singer, Bruce Lee a martial artist, William Shakespeare a playwright, Walt Disney an animator and Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong astronauts. Criminals can also become world-famous if the media cover their crimes, arrest, trial and possible punishment extensively and/or if the crime itself is sensational enough. Assassins of high-profile celebrities can become famous, like Brutus who is remembered for murdering Julius Caesar. People who commit extremely gruesome crimes can also achieve infamy,"
"story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and court composer Antonio Salieri who, overcome with jealousy at hearing the ""voice of God"" coming from an ""obscene child"", sets out to destroy his rival. When the show moved to Broadway it won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Play and, like ""Equus"", ran for more than a thousand performances. After the success of ""Amadeus"", Shaffer wrote the play ""Lettice and Lovage"" specifically for Dame Maggie Smith in 1986, for which he was nominated for another Tony Award and Dame Maggie Smith eventually won the Tony Award for best actress after three nominations in"
"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in popular culture The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) led a life that was dramatic in many respects, including his career as a child prodigy, his struggles to achieve personal independence and establish a career, his brushes with financial disaster, and his death in the course of attempting to complete his Requiem. Authors of fictional works have found his life a compelling source of raw material. Such works have included novels, plays, operas, and films. Mozart's music has been used extensively in films since the silent era. In 1930, Buñuel used his ""Ave Verum Corpus"" in ""L'Age"
"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era. Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the"
"it fulfils expectations in every possible way"". Landon did not confine his scholarship to the study of Haydn. His five books on the life and music of Mozart were aimed at a wider public than his works about Haydn, and sold in large numbers in many languages, making his name internationally known. In the wake of long-standing myths about Mozart, and new perceptions of him created by the 1979 play and 1984 film ""Amadeus"", Landon set out the facts. He rescued Mozart's fellow-composer Salieri from the charge of poisoning his rival, and restored the reputation of Mozart's wife, Constanze, long"
"in a minor key, that it must be Mozart at his most serious. But listen to how it needs to move. [He illustrates.] There are dance elements, too, in this rondo. It can't be academic. It is not really sad. It is pensive."" The moody chromaticism of the work has reminded many listeners of the (decades-later) piano music of Frédéric Chopin. Mitchell speculates a possible specific case of influence: ""Chopin revered Mozart ...and this reverence influenced his own pianistic textures. (It is unthinkable, for example, that Chopin could have written his A minor mazurka, opus 17, no. 4, had he"
"(""upright, with a sense of repose and positiveness""), and Leopold Stokowski. Gould was known for having a vivid imagination. Listeners regarded his interpretations as ranging from brilliantly creative to outright eccentric. His piano playing had great clarity and erudition, particularly in contrapuntal passages, and extraordinary control. He was a child prodigy and in adulthood described as a musical phenomenon. Gould had a pronounced aversion to what he termed a ""hedonistic"" approach to the piano repertoire, performance, and music generally. For Gould, ""hedonism"" in this sense denoted a superficial theatricality, something to which he felt Mozart, for example, became increasingly susceptible"
"men's lives and careers. While historically there may have been actual rivalry and tension between Mozart and Salieri, there is also evidence that they enjoyed a relationship marked by mutual respect. As an example, Salieri later tutored Mozart's son Franz in music. He also conducted some of Mozart's works, both in Mozart's lifetime and afterwards. Writer David Cairns called ""Amadeus"" ""myth-mongering"" and argued against Shaffer's portrait of Mozart as ""two contradictory beings, sublime artist and fool"", positing instead that Mozart was ""fundamentally well-integrated"". Cairns also rejects the ""romantic legend"" that Mozart always wrote out perfect manuscripts of works already completely"
"America: Directors Guild of America: Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award: American Film Institute: BAFTA: David di Donatello: Nastro d'Argento: César Award: Japan Academy Prize: Amanda Award: Amadeus (film) Amadeus is a 1984 American period drama film directed by Miloš Forman, adapted by Peter Shaffer from his stage play ""Amadeus"". The story, set in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the 18th century, is a fictionalized biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart's music is heard extensively in the soundtrack of the film. The film follows Italian composer Antonio Salieri's rivalry with Mozart at the court of Emperor Joseph II."
"many others. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in popular culture The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) led a life that was dramatic in many respects, including his career as a child prodigy, his struggles to achieve personal independence and establish a career, his brushes with financial disaster, and his death in the course of attempting to complete his Requiem. Authors of fictional works have found his life a compelling source of raw material. Such works have included novels, plays, operas, and films. Mozart's music has been used extensively in films since the silent era. In 1930, Buñuel used his ""Ave Verum Corpus"""
"work and his use of form. Corigliano, looking for a romantic musical performance, also referred to Bell as the ideal choice for a musician, calling him ""an aristocrat as a violinist"". Girard stated Bell and Corigliano were involved from the outset, and reviewed every version of the screenplay as it was in development. Much of the score had to be written before principal photography, which is rare in film. Since the violin movements seen in the film had to match Corigliano's music, real-life child prodigy Christoph Koncz was cast. However, Girard tied up two musicians to actor Jason Flemyng to"
"to visit Haydn for three days. In Vienna he met the composers Vanhal and Dittersdorf, but a special friendship began at a dinner where he found himself seated between Wolfgang and Constanze Mozart. He often dined with Mozart and invariably lost at billiards to him: he became close friends with Mozart's young English pupil Thomas Attwood. Kelly sang opposite Nancy Storace in this company. In 1785 they were performing Stephen Storace's opera ""Gli sposi malcontenti"". After she lost her voice for a time he sang in three operas with Mmes Cortellini, Bernasconi and Laschi, and won applause humorously modelling a"
"Miroslav Sekera Miroslav Sekera is a Czech pianist who has won numerous awards, including first prize awards in the Chopin Competition at Marianske Lazne and The Johannes Brahms International Competition at Portschach, Austria, and from the Prague Academy of Music. Mirek was a child actor who played the part of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1984 film ""Amadeus"". He is seen in only one short but important scene in which he is playing the harpsichord and violin for the Pope in the Vatican. Chopin Competition at Mariánské Láznĕ - First Prize (1991) National Competition of Czech Conservatories -"
"Paris of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he was a child prodigy. Mme d'Épinay owns the picture of the boy Mozart by Carmontelle. The servants Louise and Grimaud are also present. Although he has sent no news since his last visit, the subject of conversation now makes a surprise entrance. The child prodigy, now 22 and a famous musician, remains sensitive and shy, but tells the company of his journey and having read Molière's ""Dom Juan"" on the coach from Strasbourg to Paris. He is warmly welcomed and, to thank his hosts, he plays the harpsichord, singing ""Il faut"
"Amadeus Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer, which gives a highly fictionalized account of the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. First performed in 1979, ""Amadeus"" was inspired by a short 1830 play by Alexander Pushkin called ""Mozart and Salieri"" (which was also used as the libretto for an opera of the same name by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1897). In the play, significant use is made of the music of Mozart, Salieri and other composers of the period. The premieres of Mozart's operas ""The Abduction from the Seraglio"", ""The Marriage of Figaro,"" ""Don Giovanni"", and"
"composed in his head, citing major and prolonged revisions to several manuscripts (see: Mozart's compositional method). ""Amadeus"" was first presented at the Royal National Theatre, London in 1979, directed by Sir Peter Hall and starring Paul Scofield as Salieri, Simon Callow as Mozart, and Felicity Kendal as Constanze. (Callow later appeared in the film version in a different role.) It was later transferred in modified form to the West End, starring Frank Finlay as Salieri. The cast also included Andrew Cruickshank (Rosenberg), Basil Henson (von Strack), Philip Locke (Greybig), John Normington (Joseph II) and Nicholas Selby (van Swieten). The play"
"film's context, is ultimately portrayed as a ruse by Salieri to hinder Mozart's appointment to a royal position (teaching the Emperor's young niece). Schleifer, Martha Furman, and Sylvia Glickman. ""Women Composers: Music through the Ages."" Score Anthology. New York: G. K. Hall, 1996-. Maria Theresia von Paradis Maria Theresia Paradis (also von Paradies) (May 15, 1759 – February 1, 1824), was an Austrian musician and composer who lost her sight at an early age, and for whom Mozart may have written his Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major. Maria Theresia Paradis was the daughter of Joseph Anton Paradis, Imperial"
"all know the picture drawn by the movie ""Amadeus"". It is false. Salieri did not poison Mozart, but they both worked in Vienna and were competitors... Here we have a short, not great, piece by Mozart, but at least something that really sheds new light on his daily life as an opera composer in Vienna. Of his discovery, Timo Jouko Herrmann has said: The first part is by Salieri and is written in pastoral style. The second part is written by Mozart. It involves a more march-like rhythm—the beginning is reminiscent of his 1782 opera ""Die Entführung aus dem Serail""."
"aesthetic of the new style. However, a younger contemporary, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, brought his genius to Haydn's ideas and applied them to two of the major genres of the day: opera, and the virtuoso concerto. Whereas Haydn spent much of his working life as a court composer, Mozart wanted public success in the concert life of cities, playing for the general public. This meant he needed to write operas and write and perform virtuoso pieces. Haydn was not a virtuoso at the international touring level; nor was he seeking to create operatic works that could play for many nights in"
"episodes directed by Peter Leslie Wilde and narrated by F. Murray Abraham as Salieri (re-broadcast 24 May – 2 June 2010 on BBC Radio 7). Amadeus Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer, which gives a highly fictionalized account of the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. First performed in 1979, ""Amadeus"" was inspired by a short 1830 play by Alexander Pushkin called ""Mozart and Salieri"" (which was also used as the libretto for an opera of the same name by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1897). In the play, significant use is made of the music of"
"of the most important and sought-after teachers of his generation, and his influence was felt in every aspect of Vienna's musical life. Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, and Ludwig van Beethoven were among the most famous of his pupils. Salieri's music slowly disappeared from the repertoire between 1800 and 1868 and was rarely heard after that period until the revival of his fame in the late 20th century. This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's play ""Amadeus"" (1979) and its 1984 film version. The death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1791 at"
"earned her diploma through an independent-study program at Mamaroneck High School. Berridge was called in to audition for the part of Constanze Mozart after filming had already commenced in Prague on ""Amadeus"". The actress who had begun the role, Meg Tilly, injured her leg in a neighborhood soccer game and had to quit the project. Two actresses were flown to Prague, and after a week's auditions Berridge was given the part (supposedly because the other actress, Diane Franklin, was ""too pretty"" to play the part of a landlady's daughter). Berridge (and the other cast members) remained in Prague for six"
"story itself was not a confabulation. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was already an accomplished and renowned composer in Vienna when the then 16-year-old Beethoven first visited the city in 1787. The two may have met during Beethoven's six-month stay there, although there are no contemporary documents that provide any evidence for this. According to secondary accounts given by writer Otto Jahn, Beethoven was taken to meet Mozart and played for him. Beethoven may also have received lessons from Mozart. The uncertainty over their meeting notwithstanding, Beethoven was certainly aware of Mozart's work and was heavily influenced by it. For example,"
"by [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]. Notable examples include the aria ""[[Non Più Andrai]]"" from the opera [[The Marriage of Figaro]], the andante movement from [[Eine kleine Nachtmusik]], the first movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata No.11, K331 (best known for the third movement, the [[Rondo alla turca]]), the Posthorn Serenade, K320 and a Rondo in D, K382. In the Hopscotch - Criterion Collection DVD special feature ""Introduction by Neame & Garfield"", director Neame stated that Matthau's agent made the suggestion that they put in some Mozart because this would greatly please Matthau. As they looked into this, they realized that it would"