Mozart's Sister (2024)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mozart’s Sister is a documentary film which was shown on US television (PBS) in 2024. It is an episode of the long-running program Secrets of the Dead.

 

Here is some basic information about it:

 

** Writer and director: Madeleine Hetherton-Miau

** Narrator: Jay O. Sanders

** Language: English

** Subtitles: English

** Run time: 55 minutes

 

Several historical and musical experts are interviewed in this film. Here are the names of the participants. Listed in alphabetical order:

 

** Armin Brinzing – head archivist – The International Mozart Foundation

 

** Alma Deutscher (born 2005) – a musician and a composer

 

** Paul Dyer – a conductor – Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

 

** Sarah Fritz – a music historian

 

** Dame Jane Glover (born 1949) – a conductor

 

** Heidi Harralson – a forensic handwriting analyst – an author

 

** Martin Jarvis (born 1951) – a researcher – a conductor – founder of the Darwin Symphony Orchestra

 

** Sylvia Milo – creator of a theater production: The Other Mozart (2013)

 

** Eva Neumayr (born 1968) – a musicologist – The International Mozart Foundation

 

The famous musician and composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had a sister Anna Maria Mozart whose nickname was Nannerl.

 

Mozart’s sister was also a musician and a composer. But she is not as well-known as her brother. Sadly, none of her compositions have been preserved until our times.

 

Wolfgang was born in 1756. He did not live a long life. He died in 1791. His sister was born in 1751. She lived a long life. She died in 1829.

 

The purpose of this film is to investigate the life and work of Mozart’s sister.

 

What do reviewers say about this film?

 

On IMDb it has a rating of 75 percent.

 

As you can see, the rating is quite good. But in my opinion, it is not good enough.

 

The topic is interesting. The story deserves to be told. And in this film, it is done very well.

 

I want to go all the way to the top with this product. I think it deserves a rating of five stars (100 percent).

 

REFERENCES

 

# 1. Books

 

The Mozart Family:

Four Lives in a Social Context

By Ruth Halliwell

(1998)

 

Mozart’s Sister: A Novel

By A. M. Bauld

(2005)

 

Mozart’s Women:

His Family, His Friends, His Music

By Jane Glover

(2006)

 

Mozart’s Sister: A Novel

By Rita Charbonnier

(2007)

 

In Mozart’s Shadow:

His Sister’s Story

By Carolyn Meyer

(2008)

 

Mozart’s Sister

By Nancy Moser

(2016)

 

The Mozart Girl

By Barbara Nickel

(2019)

 

This volume is written for young readers

 

I am Mozart, Too:

The Lost Genius of Maria Anna Mozart

By Audrey Ades

(2022)

 

# 2. Film and video

 

Nannerl, la Soeur de Mozart

A French historical drama

(2010)

 

Unfortunately, this historical drama is neither great nor good. It is average. 

 

The director has altered the true story in significant ways. The chronology of events has also been changed. There are some serious violations of historical truth in this drama.

 

For details, see my review of this drama

 

*****

Mozart's Women:

His Family, 

His Friends, 

His Music

By Jane Glover

(2006)

 

*****