The Story of Mozart (Music Masters Series)

Copyright: 
1993
Publisher: 
The Vox Music Group
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Review: 
This audio provides an indepth story of Mozart's life combined with tidbits of his most popular works followed by the complete Serenade Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, one of his most famous works and one that tends to be well-liked by children just being introduced to classical music. Overall, I think the content is quite suitable for children.

There is one troubling part, however. Even according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Mozart was apparently involved in the Freemasons which are an anti-Catholic society (membership in the society is forbidden to Catholics). This story mentions that the opera The Magic Flute contains symbols of Freemasonry of which Mozart was a member. Some Catholic parents have asked if it is appropriate to have their children listen to Mozart and in fact develop a "relationship" with his music and operas, given this connection.

I would answer that the music is suitable to listen to for several reasons. First, although we do know that Mozart was a freemason (his personality does appear to be naive enough to be involved with this, although not necessarily caught up in the anti-Catholic aspects of it), it is difficult to know

Additional notes: 

60:27 Minutes Audio (CD or Cassette)

First reviewed: 
07/16/2007