Transcript M is for Man, Music and Mozart

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