Not Amadeus: Why Faithfully yours Mozart isn't what's come before.
Any true Mozartian knows that The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been told over many years (starting with the Russian Pushkin play in 1830 to Amadeus in 1984, Mozart himself has been played by many actors from various places around the globe, and for better or worse, these adaptations of Wolfgang's life have always had the same story beats. Mozart is born, Mozart's genius is discovered by his father, he's a young man in love, a young man challenged by his employers, he may or may not fall in love with Aloysia weber, he may or may not suffer the scheme of another woman or he'll fall for Constanze and then, without much substance, they're married, they may or may not have their children, and then at the end of the film Wolfgang always dies or his fate is unknown. The Musicals, the plays, the films, and documentaries all do the same thing, rinse and repeat, that is how the Mozart story goes. Until now.
Faithfully yours Mozart aims to be the first of its kind in tackling the story of Mozart beyond the spotlight, beyond the music, beyond the rinse and repeat, Faithfully yours enters Mozart's day to day and most significantly tackles the overlooked and left behind love story between Wolfgang and Constanze from 1781 to 1791.
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Constanze Mozart:
Wife. Mother.
Mozart's muse.
Scorned by history,
left behind in
the story of
her husband's legacy.
Realized at last through her eyes of grief and memory.
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Faithfully Yours Mozart
How the world of Forgotten Disability shaped Faithfully yours Mozart:
Maria Paradis Von Theresia, a noble in Vienna during Mozart's day, was partially blind and she was one of Mozart's students for the pianoforte.
Later, the infamous Mesmer, would worsen her blindness by messing with magnets and false cures for blindness, however, let it be noted that this woman, a woman with a clear and obvious disability, was Mozart's pupil.
Why then do we not talk about this in regards to Mozart's story?
Because it is small and insignificant in the larger scale of the rinse and repeat Mozart story.
Therefore Faithfully yours Mozart aims to be the first to showcase the lesser known facts.
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Did you know Mozart knew Sign language too?
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In a letter to his sister he uses an outdated medical terminology to refer to a person who cannot speak and cannot hear,
"dearest sister you know I am overly fond of talking, however, currently I am talking in signs to a boy who is both deaf and dumb."
These days we would not refer to a person who cannot speak, as dumb, we would say mute, but the fact that "talking in signs" is skipped over by so many, meaning Mozart knew sign language, is a fascinating fact.
Perhaps he even had deaf students?
He did teach beethoven briefly after all.
RESEARCHERS BELIEVE MOZART SUFFERED TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY IN HIS ADULTHOOD:
and as do I, there is too much evidence to suggest that Wolfgang suffered a form of a seizure disorder from the time he was a child and then a relapse of the neurological brain disorder which became Temporal lobe epilepsy when he was an adult. In the book series, Epilepsy and Mozart's story are intertwined, however, there was still stigma in Mozart's day even as the sentiments were slowly changing in his time, he would have been taught to hide his condition, as so many did.