M is for Man, Music and Mozart Composer: LOUIS ANDRIESSEN (b. 1939) Dutch; influenced by Stravinsky,...
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M is for Man, Music and Mozart Composer: LOUIS ANDRIESSEN (b. 1939) Dutch; influenced by Stravinsky, Reich, swing, rock Filmmaker: PETER GREENAWAY English; fascinated by the human body & bodily excretions Part of a series of tributes to Mozart in 1991 (200 yrs after the death of WAM) commissioned by the BBC
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M is for Man, Music and Mozart
Composer: LOUIS ANDRIESSEN (b. 1939)
Dutch; influenced by Stravinsky, Reich, swing, rock
Filmmaker: PETER GREENAWAY
English; fascinated by the human body & bodily excretions
Part of a series of tributes to Mozart in 1991 (200 yrs after the death of WAM) commissioned by the BBC
Themes
Medieval Alchemy
Creation stories: Golem, Frankenstein
Enlightenment Madhouse
The Body – humans (& Mozart) as physical beings
Mozart not a porcelain figurine, but a real embodied person (with a vulgar sense of humor)
Words [systems, ideas] v. physicality?
Renaissance anatomy – Vesalius, 1543
Studies of anatomy by Vesalius
footnotes
“J is for Justine, or the Misfortune of Virtue”
Justine, or the Misfortune of Virtue is a pornographic novel by the Marquis de Sade, the origin of our word “sadism”– a product of the Enlightenment
“K is for kalium” – Kalium is the Latin name given to potassium in 1807
Cellini Salt Cellar, 1540-44
