''The Mozart Band'' (original
Spanish
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title, ''La banda de Mozart'') is a 1995
animated
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television series produced by
BRB Internacional
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,
Televisión Española
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and
Marathon Animation studios with animation production by
Wang Film Productions
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and Shanghai Morning Sun Animation. It centered on the happenings of four boys, each named or nicknamed after a famous classical music
composer, as they lived a modern adventure in each episode more or less equivalent of the moment in the real composer's life that motivated him to write one of his
works
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.
Characters
*Mozart, the leader of the band, coiner of the
interjection
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"Shumblah!", and the only one to wear a pony tail due to the length of his red hair. The character is named after
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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.
*Beethoven, the fattest boy of the lot who always has a
drumstick either behind his ear (held like a pencil) or sticking out of his pocket. He has long black hair. The character is named after
Ludwig van Beethoven
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.
*Chopin, the keyboard player for the band, can be recognized by a strand of his brown hair that would always get into his face, but never bothered him. The character is named after
Frédéric Chopin.
*Verdi, of
Italian
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descent who lived with his family above a restaurant they own. The restaurant is called "La Traviata" after
the opera of the same name. His hair appears to be black shaped into points that stick out using styling gel. The character is named after
Giuseppe Verdi.
The band had a small
dog
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named Pimples (Mozart's dog) and three girls who admired them. Their mustached, old-aged music teacher, Professor Solfa also made prominent appearances.
Blackie, the antagonist, was the son of the president of ''Col Records'' (Col being the Spanish for
Cabbage, and thereby the logo of the company). His hair style resembled an
eighth note
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on its side.
Episodes
# "Making Friends"
# "The Lullaby"
# "For Elisa"
# "Aida"
# "Pimples' Waltz"
# "Beethoven's Let Down"
# "The Chopin Blues"
# "Goodbye Professor Solfa"
# "Happy Birthday, Mr. Col"
# "The Traviata"
# "Our Trees"
# "Drake the Magician"
# "Little Night Music"
# "The House of the Inventions"
# "Pimples Kidnapping"
# "La Traviata in Peril"
# "Musical Graffiiti"
# "The Jester Pizza"
# "A Magical Show"
# "Street Melody"
# "Four Little Angels"
# "Waltz for a Champion"
# "Blackie Loses His Head"
# "The Hidden Girl"
# "All Butlers are Called James"
# "Delirious Opera"
References
External links
Card of the series on ElDoblaje.com*
1995 Spanish television series debuts
1995 Spanish television series endings
1990s French animated television series
1995 French television series debuts
1995 French television series endings
French children's animated education television series
Spanish children's animated television series
Animated television series about children
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