Objects 12: Blood letting device
In this final episode Cliff Eisen focuses on medicine in the second half of the 18th century, and contemporary views on science and death. We explore today's object: a scarifier,used to bleed Mozart's...
12 Jan 201111min
Object 10 & 11: Leopold's books and Mozart's tea chest
Cliff Eisen talks about travel in the 18th Century, and discovers the books Leopold Mozart picked up in London as well as the tea chest that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart carried with him on his travels.
11 Jan 201110min
Object 9: A Masonic periodical published in Vienna in the 1780s
In this episode Cliff Eisen explores Mozart's Masonic links in Vienna, and the relationship between the Masons and Emperor Joseph II. The object, a Masonic Journal from the 1780s, gives clues about so...
10 Jan 201110min
Object 7: Salzburg’s executioner’s sword
Cliff Eisen starts with an executioner’s sword dating back from the days when Salzburg embraced capital punishment. This episode explores crime and punishment in Mozart’s time and how this was reflect...
10 Jan 201113min
Object 6: A telescope and a musical clock
In this episode Cliff Eisen concentrates on a 18th-Century state-of-the-art telescope and on a musical clock as a sign of the Mozarts’ interest in science and technology – a typical concern of the tim...
10 Jan 201110min
Object 5: The Mozarts’ Games
Cliff Eisen focuses on the role of game-playing in Mozart's life, and takes a look at a range of games including card games painted by Leopold Mozart himself, and a board game which featured the chara...
6 Jan 201111min
Object 4: Mozart’s own piano
Cliff Eisen explores some of the many types of piano Mozart played during his life, along with specially-recorded excerpts to illustrate the features he wanted to exploit as he wrote music for the ins...
5 Jan 20119min
