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Every subject matter under the sun \u2013 and beyond \u2013 has found its way into cinema over the years, and classical music is no exception. Many of the great composers have proved a draw for directors, unsurprisingly so given the range of eccentrics, geniuses, depressives, tyrants and romantics that fill the pages of any composer A-Z. As such, the catalogue of films about composers is a reasonably prolific one.<\/strong><\/p> But portraying them well is always a challenge, particularly when they\u2019re in the process of making music \u2013 just as no amount of training can turn an actor into a major-league sports star, likewise music-loving film-goers have grown accustomed to watching wooden, arrhythmic conductors or, less forgivably, hands moving in one direction on a piano\u2026 while the notes we hear clearly move in the other.<\/p> Despite this, most of the \u2018composer films\u2019 around are rarely less than engaging, and in some cases actually rather good. Here, we\u2019ve picked ten of the better-known ones and given them our marks out of five. <\/p> We\u2019ll begin with the most famous composer biopic of them all \u2013 not the first, but perhaps one of the glossiest and most thought-provoking: Milo\u0161 Forman’s extraordinary Mozart biopic Amadeus<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Its anti-hero, the composer and Mozart contemporary Antonio Salieri<\/a><\/strong> (played by F Murray Abraham) is shown as a physical and psychological wreck.<\/p>Best films about composers<\/h2>
1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Amadeus<\/em> (1984)<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>