New profile of Mozart

[Joy]

Have you heard about the new portrait and look of Mozart? For a glimpse of the 'new look' and the story check this out.

http://performancetoday.publicradio.org/

[Hofrat]

I do not know what the artist who painted that portrait got, but he should have got life in prison! That is a terrible portrait.

[Michael]

Maybe Mozart just looked like that. At least it's better than the neutral chocolate-box images we usually get. There is really only one decent painting of Mozart and that is the unfinished one - I don't know the artist's name.

[Gurn Blanston]

Maybe Mozart just looked like that. At least it's better than the neutral chocolate-box images we usually get. There is really only one decent painting of Mozart and that is the unfinished one - I don't know the artist's name.

That is by his brother-in-law, Joseph Lange. It is my favorite also, I think it captures the real man, not some Romanticized ideal of him.



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[Hollywood]

This same portrait is causing a big discussion on the MozartForum. I think he looks more like Franz Joseph Haydn than Mozart, the nose especially. The pictures below are of Haydn on the left and Mozart on the right.

[Michael]

The problem with eighteenth-century portraits is the deadening effect of wigs. Any two people with long thin faces and patrician noses can look almost identical