>From: "jjh" <jjh@n...>
>This thread reminds me of the movie "Immortal Beloved." As I recall,
>there's a scene where Beethoven ducks for cover as the city is shelled by
>Napoleon's cannons. The soundtrack music playing under that scene is
>Beethoven's 5th Symphony, which some of my Beethoven-expert friends tell me
>wasn't written at the time. It would seem that the filmmakers not only
>took
>biographical liberties, but liberties with the soundtrack as well.
>
I haven't seen the movie, but perhaps that scene is akin to one in
"Amadeus," in which Mozart's shrieking mother-in-law morphs into the angry
Queen of the Night.
Elizabeth Finkler
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