The Mozart Band

The Mozart Band
Spanish	La banda de Mozart
Created by	Claudio Biern Boyd
Country of origin	Spain France Italy
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	BRB Internacional Televisión Española Marathon Animation
Original release
Network	TVE2
Release	1995 (1995)

The Mozart Band (original Spanish title, La banda de Mozart) is a 1995 animated television series produced by BRB Internacional, Televisión Española and Marathon Animation studios with animation production by Wang Film Productions 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.

Characters

They were

• Mozart, the leader of the band, coiner of the interjection "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)(voiced by Laurie Steele)
• 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)
• 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)(voiced by Kara Edwards)
• Verdi, of Italian 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 named Pimples (Mozart's Dog) and three girls that admired them. Their mustached, old-aged music teacher, Professor Solfa (the name obviously made by joining the notes "sol" and "fa" of the solfege scale) also made prominent appearances. (voiced by Mike McFarland)

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 on its side. (voiced by Stephanie Nadolny)

Episodes

1. "Making Friends"
2. "The Lullaby"
3. "For Elisa"
4. "Aida"
5. "Pimples' Waltz"
6. "Beethoven's Let Down"
7. "The Chopin Blues"
8. "Goodbye professor Solfa"
9. "Happy Birthday, Mr. Col"
10. "The Traviata"
11. "Our Trees"
12. "Drake the Magician"
13. "Little Night Music"
14. "The House of the Inventions"
15. "Pimples Kidnapping"
16. "La Traviata in Peril"
17. "Musical Graffiiti"
18. "The Jester Pizza"
19. "A Magical Show"
20. "Street Melody"
21. "Four Little Angels"
22. "Waltz for a Champion"
23. "Blackie Loses His Head"
24. "The Hidden Girl"
25. "All Butlers are Called James"
26. "Delirious Opera"

Cast

• Laurie Steele as Mozart
• Kyle Sullivan as Beethoven
• Kara Edwards as Chopin
• Frankie Muniz as Verdi
• Mike McFarland as Professor Solfa & Mozart's Father
• Stephanie Nadolny as Blackie
• Josh Martin as Mr. Col
• Kent Williams as Carl & The Inspector
• Christopher R. Sabat as Fats
• Leslie Alexander as Anna, Gina & Mira
• Tara Strong as Eloisa, Krik, Krok, Liz & Additional Characters
• Frank Welker as Pimples, Don Giuseppe, Luigi, The Principal & Additional Characters
• Grey Griffin as Maria, Carmen & Additional Characters
• Macaulay Culkin as Charlie
• Rob Paulsen as Ernestina

External links

• Card of the series on ElDoblaje.com