The Mozart Band

The Mozart Band
Country of origin	Spain
No. of episodes	30
Production
Running time	23 minutes
Original release
Network	RTVE (Spain)
Release	1995 – 1995

The Mozart Band (original Spanish title, La banda de Mozart) is a 1995 animated television series produced by the BRB Internacional and Marathon Animation studios. 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)
• 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)
• 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 Compás (the Spanish term for keeping in tempo) and two 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.

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.