Movies: Joseph Haydn

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W. A. Mozart's childhood was very busy, connected with constant travelling, full of fame and admiration. His father Leopold, an accomplished musician, led his son purposefully towards the role of child prodigy. However, their travels in Europe were n...

Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend....

The Radio France philarmonic orchestra plays the two recurring themes in "Barry Lyndon". A bewitching travel into music-loving Kubrick's universe....

Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli is also known as the Paukenmesse (kettledrum mass) because of its dramatic use of timpani. Responding to the work's innate theatricality, Dutch National Opera presents the mass in a fully-staged performance. Director Ba...

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The Seven Last Words sounds out the experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on seven themes expressed in an oratorio: forgiveness, hope, relation, abandonment, distress, triumph, and life after the death....

The film is dedicated to the events of the early eighteenth century, the time of Hetman Ivan Mazepa....

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In 1976, Jack Unterweger was convicted for the murder of Margaret Schaefer and sentenced to life in prison. While imprisoned, he committed himself to reading and writing, eventually earning literary respect both inside and outside the penitentiary. I...

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16mm short by Massimo Bacigalupo....

Young Canadian virtuoso Bruce Liu displays the full range of his talent in a dazzling recital captured at the 2024 Ruhr Piano Festival....

An outstanding poet, student of Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Mykola Vinhranovsky reads excerpts from his teacher's diary, comments on it - thereby emphasizing the tragic fate of the great artist. The film uses a chronicle of the war and post-war years....

Haydn's oratario "The Creation", by La Fura dels Baus company. Recorded at the Seine Musicale....

Il mondo della luna (1777) is a sparkling comic opera by Joseph Haydn, with a witty libretto based on Carlo Goldoni’s play. In this award-winning production from the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, co-produced with Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao, visionary director ...

Riga - from a subjective perspective, as seen and felt by the film's characters - artist Biruta Delle, the family of violinists Dagnija and Uldis Sprūdži, baker Dzintra Knaute, and the film's authors....

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Haydn's oratorio The Creation, the first public performance of which took place in 1799 in Vienna's old Burgtheater, is one of the peak works of classical art; it reflects the spirit of Goethe's time - the oneness of man with his world, the reverence...

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