"Mozart's House" is a song by the English
electronic music
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group
Clean Bandit
Clean Bandit are an English electronic music group, formed in Cambridge in 2008. They have had four number 1 hits and ten top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart. They direct and produce their own music videos, many of which have been nominated for ...
. It was released on 29 March 2013 as the second single from their first studio album, ''
New Eyes
''New Eyes'' is the debut studio album by English electronic music group Clean Bandit, released on 30 May 2014 by Atlantic Records in Germany and Ireland, and 2 June 2014 in the United Kingdom, after suffering from several setbacks. The album in ...
'' (2014). The song peaked at number 17 on the
UK Singles Chart
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. It includes part of the
String Quartet No. 21 by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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.
Music video
A music video to accompany the release of "Mozart's House" was first released onto ''YouTube'' on 15 October 2010 at a total length of four minutes and four seconds. It has clips of the vocalist Ssegawa Ssekintu singing in various locations, along with a clip of the cellist
Grace Chatto
Grace Chatto (born 10 December 1985) is an English musician and singer who is the cellist, backing vocalist and occasional main vocalist, for the electronic music band Clean Bandit.
Education
Chatto attended Latymer School and Westminster S ...
in her underwear, holding a violin across her chest. Chatto held a position teaching cello at a school when the release took place, and her appearance half naked caused her to be fired, following the complaint by a parent signaling this was indecent.
The video was filmed predominantly in
Moscow
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,
Russia
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, with some scenes filmed in London near
Docklands Light Railway
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stations. Long sections of the video were filmed in slow motion then sped up to synchronise with normal speed.
Track listing
Charts
Release history
References
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2013 singles
Clean Bandit songs
2013 songs
Warner Music Group singles
Songs written by Jack Patterson (Clean Bandit)
Songs written by Grace Chatto