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Orion
This remains the foremost of the films about composers. Amadeus is about Wolfgang Mozart, but it is as much about Antonio Salieri. F. Murray Abraham won Best Actor for playing Salieri, and the film took home Best Picture. That’s something no other film about a composer has done…yet.
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'The Best Things in Life are Free' (1956)
20th Century Fox
Michael Curtiz, the director of films such as Casablanca, directed this musical about a real songwriting trio. One of the trio members is played by Ernest Borgnine, a few years after he won an Oscar for acting. The film is packed with songs by the trio of Ray Stevenson, Lew Brown, and Buddy DeSylva.
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'De-Lovely' (2004)
MGM
This biopic of Cole Porter has quite the cast. Kevin Kline leads it as Porter…but also features Jonathan Pryce as the archangel Gabriel? It got middling reviews, but Kline and Ashley Judd got Golden Globes nominations, and the movie also won an AARP Movies for Grownups Award.
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'Flying Down to Rio' (1933)
RKO
This Pre-Code Hollywood film is a bit of movie history. Why? Because it is the first movie to pair Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger
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The 50 First Music Biopic Movies
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15 most memorable films about classical music
6 February 2024, 20:35 | Updated: 12 February 2024, 10:36
When classical music and film come together, magic can happen. Join us as we explore some of the all-time great films about classical music and musicians.
We hear so much great film music soundtracking our favourite films, but what about when the music itself is the basis for the plot?
From the Golden Globe-winning Tár, starring Cate Blanchett as a tyrannical and troubled maestro, to the biopics about the lives of Leonard Bernstein (Maestro), and Joseph Boulogne(Chevalier), recent years have seen classical music once again at the heart of Hollywood blockbusters.
We look back at more than 80 years of classical stories at the cinema, and the times when Mozart, Mahler, and maestros found their place on the big screen.
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Amadeus (1984)
Telling the tale of Mozart’s life, and the rivalry between Mozart and fellow composer Salieri, this 1984 film was a huge success at the box office. The composer was baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, but often called Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – from which the film’s title is taken. This film is a real staple of classical music represented on the bi