This film traces the composer’s life through his music and extensive correspondence. The music takes centre stage with over 80 works featured, revealing striking parallels between the music and Mozart’s own experiences. Mozart’s letters reveal an extraordinary personal voice, which rings out on an engaging, human level, full of joy, passion, pain, humour and sensitivity. With rigorous analysis from experts such as Jonathan Miller, Cliff Eisen, Nicholas Till, and Bayan Northcott, a new, vivid impression of Mozart emerges, dispelling the many common myths about his genius.