Mozart’s world rediscovered in objects of his time. Professor Cliff Eisen looks at Mozart’s world through objects that were close to him. From BBC Radio 3.
11 Available Episodes (11 Total)Average duration: 00:10:46
Jan 12, 2011
Objects 12: Blood letting device
00:11:51
In this final episode Cliff Eisen focuses on medicine in the second half of the 18th century, and contemporary views on science and death. We explore today's object: a scarifier,used to bleed Mozart's mother before her death in Paris, and hear a moving account of Mozart's death in 1791 as recalled by his sister-in-law.
Jan 11, 2011
Object 10 & 11: Leopold's books and Mozart's tea chest
00:10:39
Cliff Eisen talks about travel in the 18th Century, and discovers the books Leopold Mozart picked up in London as well as the tea chest that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart carried with him on his travels.
Jan 10, 2011
Object 9: A Masonic periodical published in Vienna in the 1780s
00:10:21
In this episode Cliff Eisen explores Mozart's Masonic links in Vienna, and the relationship between the Masons and Emperor Joseph II. The object, a Masonic Journal from the 1780s, gives clues about some of the pieces with Masonic symbols that Mozart wrote, like the Magic Flute, and works he composed for Masonic Lodges.
Jan 10, 2011
Object 8: A window from Mozart’s flat in Vienna
00:11:08
A window from Mozart's flat in Vienna inspires Cliff Eisen to visit the actual place – the Figarohaus, today a museum dedicated to the composer, who tried to earn his life as a free-lance musician in the Imperial Capital – but what challenges did he face?
Jan 10, 2011
Object 7: Salzburg’s executioner’s sword
00:13:58
Cliff Eisen starts with an executioner’s sword dating back from the days when Salzburg embraced capital punishment. This episode explores crime and punishment in Mozart’s time and how this was reflected in some of his operas from the 1780s.
Jan 10, 2011
Object 6: A telescope and a musical clock
00:10:01
In this episode Cliff Eisen concentrates on a 18th-Century state-of-the-art telescope and on a musical clock as a sign of the Mozarts’ interest in science and technology – a typical concern of the time, which Wolfgang reflected in his music.
Jan 06, 2011
Object 5: The Mozarts’ Games
00:11:22
Cliff Eisen focuses on the role of game-playing in Mozart's life, and takes a look at a range of games including card games painted by Leopold Mozart himself, and a board game which featured the characters of Mozart's Magic Flute.
Jan 05, 2011
Object 4: Mozart’s own piano
00:09:43
Cliff Eisen explores some of the many types of piano Mozart played during his life, along with specially-recorded excerpts to illustrate the features he wanted to exploit as he wrote music for the instrument
Jan 04, 2011
Object 3: A model of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
00:09:11
Professor Cliff Eisen focuses on a model of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Renaissance piece at the British Museum in London, which Nannerl Mozart mentions in her diary among the most remarkable things she saw during the Mozarts' stay in England.
Jan 03, 2011
Object 2: Portraits of Mozart
00:10:49
Cliff Eisen introduces the second in a series of programmes exploring Mozart's world through objects associated with him. Today, two of the most important portraits of Mozart: the Stock and the Lange portraits in Salzburg.
Jan 12 | 00:11:51
Objects 12: Blood letting device
Jan 11 | 00:10:39
Object 10 & 11: Leopold's books and Mozart's tea chest
Jan 10 | 00:10:21
Object 9: A Masonic periodical published in Vienna in the 1780s
Jan 10 | 00:11:08
Object 8: A window from Mozart’s flat in Vienna
Jan 10 | 00:13:58
Object 7: Salzburg’s executioner’s sword
Jan 10 | 00:10:01
Object 6: A telescope and a musical clock
Jan 06 | 00:11:22
Object 5: The Mozarts’ Games
Jan 05 | 00:09:43
Object 4: Mozart’s own piano
Jan 04 | 00:09:11
Object 3: A model of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Jan 03 | 00:10:49
Object 2: Portraits of Mozart
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