Personality Flaws and Final Verdict

Warning, this episode contains strong language. Genius, Gius. Genius Welcome to Evil Junior. I'm Russell Cane. I'm big into recycling, which is why I'm currently sporting the teeth that Rylland rejected. I've got bit a flag in my incisor. Now this isn't some highebrow history program where men in cravats pontificate about the historical lamifications of the printing pests. No, this is time team, if the only thing being dug up was an old shopping trolley and a fist full of used condoms. And a fist. Each week, we take a dead prominent legend and reveal a series of uncomfortable facts about their life and at the end of that debate, my panel must vote, Evil or genius Today's legend is pos probably the most famous musician in history. He changed what it meant to be a composer forever And he is to classical music what Ronaldo is to football, undoubtedly talented, but also deeply problematic. I don't know who Naldo is. I've said it anyway. To some, he's an insufferable child prodigy. Imagine young Sheldon with a harp accord. To others, he's the greatest musician who has ever lived, not counting Morrisy, who has arguably been dead on the inside since the beginning. Here's of course Wolf Gang, Amadeus, Bozart My panel today, Steve Bouger, Kate Chucker, Stephen Bailey. Anyone here ever tried to learn a musical instrument? Recorda. Yeah Yeah. Well, you know what? my primary school did Ocarina? I think they're trying to be a bit who Oarina Ladies? Vindy Bargie.? Oh that's Opra. No, Opra. You know what I mean, Ocarina, it was like a little mini recorder and it went like landscape rather than portrait. Harmonica? A little bit like Harmonica, but Ocarina We ever heard of this thing? Yeah Yeah, I don't know why pisher than we think. No, wasn't it was a little state school, wasn it a village? was it like one of diner schools for children that need to be educated? I think they just don't have recorders. They just You think they can get the budget for recorders? they went just did like hot crossbon. Yeah, hot cross b. Couldn't do the next first though peny. Is that a request? Penny But I've never I've tried to learn the piano I just I was tried to do the flute It didn't h again. No one amongst. I didn't I lear the saxophone when I was. You did not Yeah. I couldn't imagine you were a saxophone. I was a very small child so the saxophone was like bigger than me. so I'd be like carrying this. Yeah, it was really embarrassed. because it's quite It cool instrument saxophone. Is that why you couldn't imagine St. Yeah. Ver cool. sorry. Well, I didn't last. so Stimson, famous saxophone. She's cool. Stpson' the ultimate geek. She's theltimate geek. I love. I love wom, she's not one. I agree like as an adult, we think she's the cool. but herer character is the loser geek. Iseek done well though is cool, which is not everyone does it well. I am, Stehven, I am the geek done well. G it's just deferred sex being a nerd isn't? Dferred, yes And now we're in the D Yeah. T timee for the harvest. Talk about Dungeons and Dragons while you touch the end of it. Right Wolfgang Amadees Mozart was born in Salzburg on Austria, that is. Jehanza twenty sevenh, seventeen fifty six, he was the youngest of seven children. of Annna Maria and Leopold, but only he and his sister, Nanl survived. His father, Leopold was a musician and a minor composer and he tutored both children. Volfgang's extraordinary talent was soon apparent. He was playing chords on the Harps chord age three and composing by the age of five. Piss off me. That's too much. Pissing the bed and stuff He wrote his first symphony when he was eight, Papa Leopold described his son as the miracle which God let be born in Salzburg That's nice My dad called me should have been a wank. A Horrible. I't. It could have been worse. It could have been like, you know portion that never was. Wanker Kane was literally my nickname for the E thirting. Wanker Kane, that's who you are Don't you think this is proof though about self fulfilling prophecy because know not about you, and man at you. Oh' backack with protein, shake out. Because like Mozart yeah was told from being a kid. You can do whatever you want. R there you. You're the most talented thing Salzburg's ever seen. Think if someone whispered in my ear my whole life. You're young beautiful and talented the world's your e, young beautiful and talented il Yeah. I think everything it's a private school. Private school kids are just told they're told They are assseholes Yeah. And I think that's the thing we forget about them. Like I wouldn't send my kids to private school because I wouldn't want that person in my house. And I couldn't afford it. That's the main one. And Leopol threw all his energies into making a start of this child proigy. The whole family took to the road with Wolfgang and the sister Nanelle Performing in the imperial courts of Vienna and Prague, they then embarked on a three and a half year tour of Europe Munich, London, Paris, Amsterdam. No I know, Hillary Duff' song that. I mean I didn't I was like putting on puppet shows in my mum and dad's kitchen. I couldn't get a neighbour's and watch. In the Mozart family, Volfgang's talent came first. At one point on the tour, smallpox broke out in their lodgings. So Leopold moved himself and precious Wolfgang out of the lodgings to avoid the risk Volfgang catching it, leaving his wife and daughter behind the inverse of the Titanic principle. Get drowning ladies and kids. He wrote his first opera Bastien unt Bastienne in seventeen sixty eight when he was just twelve years old an opera, knocking out an opera. It was more a German sing spel, like more like a musical rather than a full throated German opera Still I think he really did as well, or was it like when your mum would do your own work, you weren't good at m? Well, I did think that, but when I've been researching, he would be put on the piano in front of the court, right? So you could fake that a bit. You could school a child' lear but then he would improvise for an hour. they would go make a melody that makes us thinkink of the s and he would just improvise. So it appears he could just make this show up But maybe he had like loads of different melodies he already knew. And then he was like, Wh which one's close to the sun Either way it's impressive to. You know what I mean? Like how we on stage where someone's like make a joke about this and then happ. But there's also the memorizing as well, which comes up again and again, there people I'm not going to give you the sheet of music and they're like, I already know it. Prove it and he would just play what he'd heard once. Thises doesn't sound like you're a lot of friends Also, do we know he was that age? orr was he just really? Yeah. No he's definitely that It's definitely that. T to get his head around how to write a full throated opera, he had to go to Italy. So off he and his dad went several times. That is not traditional father son bonding. It's not really gold and a pint, is it? pilgrimage to L Scala. On their first trip He wrote and premiered another opera, Mithridates, King of Pontus in Milan As was traditional at the time, he conducted the first three performances He was fourteen Ws. Any memorable family holidays? Really It's really triggering my dady issues. I wasn't expecting that. Did you have any family? Well your family holidays, cultural or all inclusive wristband? Mine were wristban on Let's Lave in Profit. That was the game. My brother had to eat food he was allergic to Eipen continue it's lobster.. Yeah we'd go to a little hotel with all the raps or the holiday reps and just stay and they'd be putting on like Aber plays and just sit and watch them that was my holidays I be a h anyone have cultural parents thatk them to O child single mother. You don't go on holiday together. You've seen enough of the person in the house when there's only two of you. Yeah. You don't wantan to be on holiday. So I just got sent on my friend's holidays. My m would be like, takeake her with you and then you're just on like your family friends. and that's nice because they had really nice middle class holidays. So you did go on a couple of posh holidays. Yeah, yeah, and then they would like go to Greece and stuff and like I'd get to go with as like the kind of ethnic friend. I will say this actually for any people of color out there. if you can find some white people that have a bit of white gil to look after you. J, I've got two posh friends that use me in that way. And it's comeome tell them aboutory R. And they love your story. They' obsessed with your. It'ser very musical. Watch him down After a number of years working as a concert master in Salzburg Leopold felt it was too small and provincial for young Wolfgang, who was now in his twenties. So he packed his son and wife, Anna Maria off to Paris to seek better prospects for the lad, saying by way of explanation that from Paris, the fame of a man of great talent echoes through the whole world. That's the same place that now gave us Emily in Paris. Rrishy Sunak's favorite show W Yeah, that's what fact bomb? Rich she soon acts favorite show is Emily in Paris. Why a of that show. Oh, that man is so I know. of a l. I might bring him as a friend there, because he's like representive and diverse. He wasnt much It wasn't much of a successful vol gang professionally. and for the family it was a disaster. But months after arriving in Paris, Anna Maria, his mum fell sick and died. seventeen eighty one, offffy Bugers age twenty five to Vienna setet himself up as an independent musician. Now it's hard for us to get our heads around it, but basically there were no free you didn't like, you know, we can just turn up in a town. We could go to New York and try our luck as a comedian That didn't exist. When you went to one of these cities, you turned up as a court composer. So you would have had you'd go to N York and you would try and be the joke writer of a politician or some posh person. But he went there freelance. It was really, really unusual. Very courageous, not much money in it, but he was absolutely wanted to be independent. And of course they were the most successful and productive years of his life. In Vienna he composed what are widely considered to be his two greatest works Mass in C minor and Piano cononcerto twenty one and he wrote his four most famous operas. Now I'm not an opera fan, even I've heard of these. The Marriage of Figureo, Don Giovanni, Cosvantuti and the magic flute. A little bit of a tip guys and ladies. If you're asking your wife if she wants to play the magic flute Don't do that on Valentine's Day. For one thing is three hours longer. He was friends with fellow composer Haydn, who told his dad Leopold is Your son is the greatest composer known to me in person or by name He has taste and what is more, the greatest knowledge of composition. Where was Hiden from He was German. Okay now I've got a few German friends who live here and they don't sound like that. They sound like they're trying to do an English accent. Yes. They sound almost like pososher. Yeah than British people. Yeah. Mozak got married in Vienna to singer, Constanz Weber Leopolold wasn't a fan of the match, and that wasn't the only complication because five years earlier he'd been trying to bang her sister, her older sister, Aloishia. The feeling wasn't mutual and by that time Aloishia was married to someone else. so just marry her sister instead. maybe explains why Mozart is remembered for his music, not his relationship advice. Anyone had any rejection, professional romantic? Yeah comedians get rejected rejected so much all the time I got reject I think one of the most embarrassing rejection I haded was I was luck enough to have a sitcom and I wrote a part basically for myself. I was like, Well Ill give myself a part. I wrote a sort of geeky loser kind of guy. And had to audition for the parts I obviously you got audition. you have to audition for your own part. Yeah. It's like you'll be professional.' got audition for your own parts. I did do audition in front of like my fellow writer and then the director and producer. and then didn't get the parts. Did't get the part. You written for yourself Written for myself. get the part my own life. I was saying the words that I wrote were to the people I wrote them and they had to audition other people and they played you better You're not going to say his name, but if you watch Buffering Series one, you'll be able to see quite clearly who it was. He was very good. The guy got the part He was very good. And even I watched him went, you're more of a loser than me. That's annoying. At least that. Do you know what I mean? You weren't enough of a loser got to Yeah, or just not enough of a good actor. But like he was good, but I was I just didn't think I think there was a possibility I wouldn't get the partark. Oh my gosh. These stories are making me feel so much better about my hish slaymate. I have a romantic one.. I do have a romantic one. So I was on the year seven trip to Paris when I was still presenting as heterosexual. Yeah didid you present this hetros? Listen, it was a dark month in june ninety seventven. and I think it was the year of the Euros so I had to present all the Wor Cups S it was. Yeah, yeah a football. team a wee. I would say people like, because I'm from Manchester, Rd R or Bue, Stehven, I'm like, I'm a Geminine Dave. I got with this girl at one service station, herer name was Lindseay. and then by the second service station, she'd broken up me because she thought I was gay W, Well, he can't really Correct. I know objection. I thought we were all playing along with it. It was a premonition, not right I just throw the stick on beard you've given her back in your face. Right. After failing to marry her sister, Volfgang married Constanza and they had six children. That' the only two survived. again. is horry, they just seemed to like brush this up Despite his relative success in Vienna Mozart really wanted the security of a position at the court of Emperor Joseph II. So eventually he was like, maybe I should do a bit of court composing. He did succeed in getting a job as the chamber musician His job was to write, that means music, you know like for balls or events and things like that, a task he undertook with some gusto. Could you imagine having your own in house composer to soundtrack your parties? Nigel Farge could have Wagner, couldn't he? The next few years were incredibly productive. Mozart wrote three symphonies in just six weeks in the summer of seventeen eighty eight. That was by his standards ridiculous In seventeen ninety one, he got an anonymous commission for a requiem mass. As the work progressed, he fell ill and he became convinced he was a writing of the Requem himself Requiam mass is, you know, like a funery or thing He died on december the fifth, seventeen ninety one. He was thirty five We don't really know what he died of, severe military fever was the official cause. that doesn't exist anymore. No That's a nice length of time. Yeah. five. And then just call it. Carltte. But also've done if you're such a genius and like you've lived your life, then haven't you? You've done enough. No all he did. It wasn't going get better after. You sugging he's done so much by thirty five He' suggesting we execute footballers Yeah His funeral service was attended by a small group of friends and Mozart My myth says he was buried in a pap's grave, but he wasn't. He was just chucked in a communal grave. but that was common. That was the normal burial of you were middle class the time. That's how rumor that he was buried in a pup's grave got started, but it's not accurate. Just to conclude, Mozart was never fully appreciated in his lifetime. Emperor Joseph II's feedback was famously rumored to have been There were too many notes, and ide dear Moz arart But the musicians who followed in his wake recognized how substantial his contributions had been. Wagner summed it up like this. The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters in all centuries and in all arts. So Equil genius, we have envelopes. Everyone thinks Mozart is a genius. So I promise you some of these envelopes will present stuff that's uncomfortable, surprising, may tarnish, and will help us make the vote more difficult. Who has envelope number one? I do yes, I do. So it might be a Steve, has it? It might be a confirmation of genius, it might be something problematic. What do you have? Okay. A talented toddler, Mozart grew up to be the most gifted musical genius the world has known. Yeah, he was a small Bal accounts un exceptional lookingoo man triggered. He was blonde and very vain about his hair. Tick And his face was scarred from salt, but I'll just leave it, yeah. But when it came to raw musical talent, he was peerless. As a child, he performed before the Empress Maria Theresa in Vienna, managing to play the piano perfectly even when a cloth was thrown over the keys What? So these are things which go against this theory that were they faking it? See blindfolded cloths over the keys upside down. Why are really testing him so much? For the very reason we just, is it real? Can he really It wasn't someone on the piano like with the spoons. We that. It's not done was? When he was fourteen, he heard the misare performed in the Sistine Chapel in Rome. It's psalm fifty one set to music in the seventeenth century by Gregorio Allegri. complex piece of music. It's got nine singers and the Pope loved it so much that he wouldn't let anyone write the music down Motart transcribed it from memory after gettingiv it nine singers compleplex music, p was like no one'sowed music and I went, this is the music and wrote down perfectly from hearing it So this is not Jenius This is real genius. It does happen now and again something something's wired in the brain. somethingomething's gone on there Yeah. His ability to write at speed and keep music in his head was extraordinary. He wrote to his father from Vienna that he'd composed a violin sonata between eleven and midnight one night. I don't want to comment on what I normally do betweenween eleven and midnight. actuallyct that's not fair. sobing at how the gig went and when it comes before any d That's one AM. Wn't you so unconscious to make the demons go away? on radio four. Even I'm like clutching my pearls. Yes. Because it's true, stand us He wrote orchestral and chamber music, concertos and church pieces and he excelled at the lot with seeming ease, as he said to himself, I love this. I write as a sow piddles female pig whz. It comes out of him like a female. I'm bit I listen to that and I thought a beautiful phrase. It You either get one you get one of the other as a comedian, don't you? So I would call I'm a sow piddling comedian. I can just churn out a sixty minute show like that. None of it there's no ow out, there's no garlic bread, there's no viral clips. It's just a sow pissing. whereereas the people' like a nat ejaculating. They'll write amazing jokes, but they'll do one show every ten years. They might only do one show. But he did both. He pissed like a sal and it was genius I never one of those gems, whereereas this writer, this creator pissed gems that people remembered, phrases people repeated, things that went into the language Yeah That's very, very, very unusual. So at the time People were like, is this actually the voice of God? Like it's the most perfect music we've ever heard. Is there more to this music? it's been tested There's been scientific experiments done on the power of Mozart's music Some of them are actually done under proper conditions and proved Some of them are a bit more really? For example, this one Italian vineyard owner claimed that he played the magic flute over fifty six speakers to his vines. He claims the grapes ripened faster, making the wine they produced stronger The same I believe The same opera worked its magic on a sewage plant in Berlin where they found that playing the music broke down the biomask more quickly. Now this was measured. The manager explained, We think it's something to do with the vibrations or the frequency of these compositions. It creates a certain resonance that stimulates the microbes and helps them work better. Now I'm not sure if I'd be flattered if I was told some of my old stand up DVDs would being helping wastege flush shit. actually My old DVD's being used. That's quite appealing. And this one really was studied properly. So you cannot roll your eyes at this Lger. It sounds impressive, but can he do Portsmouth jungles on a Friday? No one can it shut down went bang. He would reopen it with his music. Finally, a hospital in Tel Aviv discovered that Playing Mozart to premature babies helped them grow faster. They then repeated the same experiment with Beethoven and Bach and got a negative result. The theory goes infants The repetitive melodies and the structure of the melodies in Moz arrts music make them more relaxed so they lay back more listen more and put on more weight You're gonna have to take the data, Bougier. I think that's. He grew premature babies with the celestial power of his music. W It's really I can't deny if that's scientifically proven, that's really impressive. Would you think one of your ps could Yeahbsly the premature baby joke about Japanese toilets has quite the same effect So Mozartt songs were played to turds and premature babies. Anyone done a gig weirder than that? I've done aeropplanes, birthday partiesays Iss a gig on an aeropplane? I've done two on an aeropplane. Horrific because I can't see. What no one had thought of You can see them They can see you, but you know what you can see? and listeners I'm demonstrating, just the eyes. Am I laughing? C't see Am I staring? It's so loud? You can't see reaction. So it's very bizarre. Anyone beat that airopplane U notot locationalise, but have I did a gig for my Nana's like coffee morning. The Pussy magnet speaks again. Nana Nanella's Panani Master Come on guys, this is bulling up. Yeah I know they wentn't into the comedy. One of them asked me just told me to do a joke they know. They said, tellell us one we know. As if for us like a joke. Well as if we all collectively have a pool that we just. Yeah. I think they' just ladies. Yeahnt up until the se the last sort of show of that nature was called The comedians and it was on in the seventies We've done a program about Burn and manning for evil genius, actually, it's a great episode. Listen to that. But they were just like, would you wantan to do this one tonight? I'll do this one. A sorry, I stle on one from earlier. You left it lying around. I sas all right, Burn. they were just w They were things that were passed around. so yeah And then they stopped all being white men and they had to think of had I didn't just reflect that. Well It wass crazy being bald. I did I did a gig last weekend for a family friend. Oh It was a very unattended charity gig for a like overseas aid organization and I just suddenly had a real a lot of the people there were very Catholic And I guess very into overseas development. and all my jokes of sex and colonialism and it was not did not go Yeah. I' done ofboxing one of my first corporates boxing ring literally on the announcer's mic and the guy brought me. We'll have a fight in a minute. but first of all, Give him a chance it's Mr. Russell M I was brought on. And I had to pull the thing down and they're all lot got Terriers and Daves with their head shavave just wanting to kill me for not looking like them Did they announnce your weight before you came on? thankfully not. The scale didn't register His impact on music, Mozart has been huge. In just thirty years. he was responsible for more than six hundred era defining works. E now, He's got more than seven point nine million monthly listeners on Spotify W I' going to catch Sabrina Carpenter one day,. It's going to happen Who has envelope number two? Kate. Oh I should have M mozart in your spot if I rat. I'd actually post mine if I did Yeah. It's not boring though. If you put classical music in the background, it is lively there's something about it Oh my go Another ex boyfriend He was a puffed up, paranoid man child incapable of running a bath and never mind his own life. Sorry, that's my phone.. Mozart's sister, Nanelle, wrotes this about her brother. This your own family. This same being who considers an artist reached the highest stage of development, even when from his very earliest years remained to the end of his life completely childish in every other aspect of existence. Never until he died, did he learn to exercise the most elementary forms of self control. It's a brilliant film, honestly, just go away and watch after this if you haven't seen it Amadeeus, the film about Mozart's life, the nineteen eighty four film Tom Holz played Mozart in it. He has this laugh Have you seen it? you've seen it? No' se Oh good He said he used John McNroe as' inspiration And that performance was probably a bit over the top, but Mozart does seem to have been a childish man one to bizarre mood swings. Can you bring me my actmail afterwards or I will punch you? One friend describes how in the middle of playing piano, he jumped up and in a mad mood which so often came over him began to leap over the tables and chairs, meowing like a cat and turn somersaults like an unruly boy name of my next tour actually Contemporary described him and fellow composer Haydn as persons who displayed no extraordinary intellectual capacity, silly jokes, and in the case of Mozart, an irresponsible way of life were all they displayed to their fellow men. What's wrong with him being a playful adult and having child? I feel like it's because over extended his completely irresponsible way of life in everything he did. his attitudes to money, for example, spent it fast and he made it. Records show that in Vienna, he earned about ten thousand floreins a year. That's thirty k in today's money, which I was surprising. so he wasn't liken't much. He's not minting it But that's because he wanted to be this freelancer. He could have been taken a cushy position as a cord composer. Also no wonder he's quite childish. He lost all his childhood. Yes. his dad making him play. Jackson? Yeah. as a child So he was in the top five percent quite an accusation to throw Mozart at this point It put him in the top five percent earners of all time. So it's not high wage, but in that particular time he was in the top five percent But he still wrote begging letters to friends and benefactors for funds for travel and socializing and money worries forced him and his wife to move at least eleven times. I mean, that's like witness protection amount of moving. The cost of moving's a waste of money though. I don't know. Flatsairres in London, I've pro moved that much He was awful with money He was silly and inappropriate in social situations and he rubbed people up the wrong way. He also had a streak of arrogance His father, Leopold, advised him to be aloof like an Englishman The guy certainly had an unshakable faith in himself. In seventeen ninety, he put on a concert in Frankfurt and it was a flop It was long and bad and the audience walked out and he was like he just would not have it. There was anything to do with the music. It was because the audience wanted to watch a trouop of soldiers performing a manoeuvre outside. So he was arrogant, deluted. Yeah. I think that's the key to success actually. delusion. agree with comedy though, becausecause if you're not listening to no laughs coming you're not going to improve the job.ree how many comedions do we know that self preservation. You know, when you have a bad gig Yeah the comedians you watch have a bad gig and they come off and go, I was them. and they don't never them. they don't let it ruin their entire week. And I think actually sometimes that is good for you. Yeah. There are people where I've gone, o my God, you've sunk the room out and they've come off and just been like yeah, that was fine, did a bit of new. they weren't into it I you said.so I actually had a gig last weekend where I thought it had gone well, and then the entire staff of the venue were like they were like, yeah, the tech person was like, wellow, God, that tough crowd and someone else was like, they really made you work for it. And I was like, I just didn't have that experience. now I' wondering if I'm de. You've got the delusion Yeah. I thinkbe I thought they were really nice. Y Mozart. My moozart me When he didn't get what he wanted, paranoia set in, failing to get a position as a court musician in the early years in Vienna, Mozart concluded there was a conspiracy theory against him. The Kappelmeister, that's the court' musical director was the Italian composer, Antonio Salieri, a man who had become Mozart's betet noir in the public imagination And at the time, possibly in Mozarts I, he wrote to his father about Italian cabals thwarting his ambition in Vienna Paranoia about shadowy cabals is every chance. If Mozart live today, you'd have a Reddit account and would have the truth about vaccines And then things got spicier. On his deathbed, Mozart is reported to have said, sureurely I've been given poison I cannot let go of this thought After he passed away and this is what this whole amazing film is about the Amodasus, it's about the rivalry between Salier and Mozart The rumors swirled that Salieri had been the poisoner Beethoven spoke about it years later. He even claimed that Salieri himself made a deathbed confession. Pushkin wrote a play about it that Rimsky Korsakkov turned into an opera, Salieri was cemented in the public imagination as the bitter old baddy done boy genius Mozart wrong. but There's just no evidence it's not the truth. In real life, Mozart and Salieri seem to have had professional rivalry nothing more. In fact, he may even have visited him a few days before he passed away and in later life, Salieri said that Mozart's final peieace Requiem was the work of a dissipated man who threw music had found his way to eternity You you know what the recreem is ot like that. Not when you're doing this I don'. It's horrible. It' haunting death music. I fucking That was the last thing you wrote way And he knew he was dying He was dying but he thought he'd poisoned by. Maybe had been poisonedight. Well that's what the film is but honest, you got to watch the film it's fucking amazing. You could think it was made last week. It's not dated at all. I don't think we like the same kinds of films mean girls four. Yeah. very much. Barbie movie. Okay, let's crack on envelope number three Dendent time It's like opening a voucher at Christmas. River Island, yeay. The highbrow Why have I got this one? The highbrow composer with a low brrow sense of humour. Wolf Gangamade Moz that was a potty mouth. I feel offended. I mean this guy he is obviously? The genius is so high that we're really having to I don't know if there's anything wrong with him, but he's definitely got a fixation And you'd ty be disse every way you want, but he had a really weird filthy sense of humor and use of images Let's have a look at some of these letters I wish I now wish you a good night. shit in your bed with all your might Sleep with peace on your mind and try to kiss your own behind. you're twenty one wrote that Sounds like Joe Iit. When wrote he wrote that to nineteen year old Maria Anna Theeckler. On another occasion he wrote her, We By the love of my skin, I shit on your nose so it runs down your chin He's just into pistplay, maybe M me stick to the obo. What Bllin? fuckings think fking. I think old posh people are like that behind closed doors. Itilburn. The Phkigs they always love the filth, something? Yeah. 'cause obviously I couldn't get a girlfriend at school. I didn't I left school without kissing a girl. And then there was a school any b. Yeah. Imagine doing that. Steveie's so happy he's got chance to to lose. in a chat room Boucher. This R I'm the alpha of the Podkig. You not. You're not I am a b is U but you know, all there was a school trip And we all know that when we went to this school trip, it was a place in the south of France where a P girls school went and I obviously wasn't allowed to go ' because my family was too poor so I didn't get to go on the trip. But they all went and sure enough, everyone who'd never even kissed a girl instantly pulled So our theory is that the posher the girls, the direr they are. Well the dirtier. So it was like if you tried to make a move on a councillor, it was like excuse me, what do you think because I've grow enough intounance to make me a slag? And it certainly doesn't go up theres where toilet comes from And then once south of France, shit on me Monte Okay Yeah, I I do think that's true. I've had some Ph boyfriends and they are the dirtiest of the boyfriends. same more tellell me more. They just like they're the ones that want to lick your pIiss. They're the ones that like yeah want to say pits or pIiss. both Both are acceptable. Piss. They're the ones that want they' hard to lick the meniscus of urine. You'd have to laugh. No when you're peeing and they want to splash around like a c I do think, actually. they've had such privilege they want to They Yeah once want to be the underdog. They want to foul their privilege. Exactly Yeah. Maria Anna was his cousin and quite possibly his girlfriend at the time. So All the scat play chat was not only flirtation, but possibly only there was incest too. So we've got cousin fucking, tax dodging, fetishisation of excrement. Push people do that. That was the time, wasn't it? cousins. He wrote there's a title in the canon in B Flat that Mozart composed at the age of twenty six which he titled, See if you can work it out. Mich I Ash Yes. O. I can speak German. So he wrote this amazing work of genius and titled it Lick My ass. Yeah. Maybe again, it was just something for like the gay clubs, you know? Some context here though, have to be fair, Highly charged pooh jokes, they weren't rare in eighteenth century Austria. Oh okay And also that's the vibe in Austria. His whole family had a fondness for them his own mom C can' really hard to get through this His own m wrote to his dad Into your mouth, your ass, your shove. I wish you good night, my dear, but first, Shake your bed and make it burst No it's just a family. it's a family j. It vibe as a family like that. Oh you like that? Yeah That's they're just one of those people families. I'm just jealous his parents were still together. He seemed to delight in defying expectations and provoking response in every other part of his life. And while Ammade Dus, the film that I've been going on about is probably an exaggeration that we have such a sense of Mozart's character speaks to his incredible and surprising legacy Bratty man child with a scat fetish who revolutionized classical music forever It's time to decide the bed, Avil or Jenius Dave Bouge. I love this guy. I learn about him the more I'm into it. I thought his music's clearly genius and he's clearly an absolute kink. He loves so yeah. I see no evidence of evil. It's one for genius. Yeah genius. I'm going to go to everyone's favourite Christmas treink next Oh me. Biley. I would say Musical genius I like the manan childild vibe I like that he would not be kink shamed. I think he's a genius as well, Steve, and Rsel. So it comes down to you, Kate, to decide up this gonna be a unanimous vote for genius for Volfgang Amadeus Mozart? D' done nothing like bad as he is I mean I just licked a few asses. shat in someone's mouth. b like it sounds all consensual. Well sometimes it's because they've not wiped sounds please. We're I've be' at's a tough Welcome to the Mats at the end. He sounds like a dickhead, but that's okay. Yeah. mayaybe that's okay. Doesn't make you evil. It doesn't make you evil. but but I worry that that's the problem is we keep saying that doesn't make you evil And actually, we're allowing these geniuses to do awful things. So just because of recent events, No, you're not gonna do this Before you before you I have to say that we have a Fitzgerald episode in this run and it's very similar. He's like throwing ash trrays around and throwing punches but Oh, he wrote the G Gs. Exactly. And I think because of that, I might say She's mixed things up. it's not unanmous, but Mozart is genius. Thank you very much to my guests, Steve Buger, Kate Checker and Stephen Bailey. If you want to be notified as soon new episodes drop Make sure you're subscribed to Evil Genius on BBC Sounds and have push notifications turned on with the enthusiasm of an Austrian tongue entering a bumhole. Goodbye Hi there, I'm Dillily Carter and this is everything you need to know about my new podcast, Sortour Life Out Unpacked. I interview a different celebrity every episode. They bring me in three items from their home that reveal the most about them and we unpack the stories behind those items. 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