rose ellen

I saw a film years ago about a famous composer but I can`t remember which one or the title.The only thing I remember well was that he was having an affair, and at one point his wife said "what the eye doesn`t see the heart doesn`t grieve about" when talking about some sewing she had done.
I think it may have had some famous actors in it but I can`t recall them.

cornershop15

When you understand the past, the confusion of the present becomes clearer - John Betjeman.

melade

Could it be Ken Russell's The Music Lovers?
This is about Tchaikovsky and starred Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson.

rose ellen

Thank you for your help Cornershop15.You could be right, but I am not sure.I have ordered Song Without End because I like Dirk Bogarde and I think I will enjoy it anyway,so I will let you know when I have seen it.

rose ellen

Thank you for your reply Melade but I know it isn`t The Music Lovers because I watched it last week-probably making me think of this one.

phil

I'm sure cornershop is correct with Song Without End.

will.15

I think that must be it because while there are a few other biographical films about classical composers, none of the others I believe involved adultery. If that's not it, I'll throw out some other titles.

Gary D.

Franz Liszt was never married. At the time this film, Song Without End, opens, he's living with--and has children by--Countess Marie D'Argoult (I really should check for the correct spelling of the lady's name. I think she was a somewhat author going under the name of Daniel Stern--nothing comparable to George Sand, of course). She is, I believe, played by Rosemary Forsythe. Liszt supposedly wants to marry Capucine's character.

This was a beautiful film, but probably inaccurate. For one thing, in 1961, long hair for men had not quite returned to vogue, so Dirk Bogard wore his hair short--contrary to the composer's long locks. Liszt, by the way, was credited with being the first pianist to sit profile to the audience, and not with his backside facing them. Before he developed all those unappealing warts, Liszt was a handsome man--no woman was safe in his presence, nor, I suppose, ever wanted to be.

Amethyst_Isle

Lisztomania ? Directed by Ken Russell

The 1975 film by Ken Russell, drawn from a biography of Franz Liszt.

Depicting the flamboyant Liszt as the first classical pop star, Lisztomania features contemporary rock star Roger Daltrey (of The Who) as Franz Liszt. The film was released the same year as Tommy, which also starred Daltrey and was directed by Russell. The film is derived, in part, from an actual "kiss-and-tell" book, Nélida, by Marie d'Agoult, about the couple's affair.

There's a lot of dignity in that, isn't there? Going out like a raspberry ripple.

will.15

I don't think Lisztomania is what Rose Allen was thinking of.

rose ellen

No it wasn`t Lisztomania.I think it probably was Song Without End but am not 100% sure as I thought it was the late sixties rather than 1960.When it arrives and I have watched it I will know for certain.

JohnB_Toronto

I seem to recall that Florence Henderson played a homebody in Grieg's biography "SONG OF NORWAY" (1970). Maybe that's where the sewing scene came from? It was such a terrible film that I really don't remember much about it. Harry Secombe couldn't have saved that one if he'd have played it as Ned Seagoon.

will.15

Song of Norway was the only other one I could think of from the sixties, but there wasn't any hanky panky going on. There has been such few movies about composers, it narrows the possibilities considerably.

rose ellen

I just looked up Song of Norway and it isn`t that.There is no way I could have watched a film like that all the way through it sounds ghastly.

will.15

There is also The Great Waltz from the director of Song of Norway that came a out a few years later. (Song of Norway actually did well at the box office),