Product Details

• Format: Color, Dubbed, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Dubbed: French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: March 12, 2002
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (238 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005YUPN
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,377 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • #39 in Music > Children's Music > Educational
  • #69 in Music > Children's Music > Disney
• Learn more about "Baby Einstein - Baby Mozart - Music Festival" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

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It's called "the Mozart Effect," the notion that exposing youngsters to the melodies of the maestro can improve verbal ability, spatial intelligence, creativity, and memory. It's a pretty big leap of faith to understand that effect unless you personally see a toddler react to the stimulation. The Baby Einstein folks have a series of tapes (Baby Einstein, Baby Bach) that add visual stimulation to the bouncy recordings (using vibraphone, Rhodes electric piano, and even a glockenspiel). The melodies are heard against colorful imagery of spinning tops, wave machines, soft baby toys, mobiles, and the like. Several parenting groups and magazines have heralded the tapes for children 1 to 36 months, but the Orwellian aspect of introducing babes in arms to the TV screen may cause many to just pick up the CD. --Doug Thomas

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

125 of 127 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars BABY MOZART is the one to buy April 1, 2003

By "tkvm3"

Format:DVD

Friends gave us the BABY MOZART video (made 1998) as a gift for our infant when he was 4 months old. He loved it then and he loves it now. It completely holds his attention for the 28 minutes or so it runs. Our little guy has watched it dozens of times over the last two months. It takes Mozart's music and presents it in very child-friendly renditions with simple visuals of toys and puppets. The pacing and length are exactly right.

We have played BABY MOZART about 3 times a week for the last 2 months and our little guy enjoys it every time. He smiles and giggles at his favorite parts. Believe it or not, the only time he loses interest is when the credits and ads come on at the end ! We can almost guarantee ourselves almost a half hour of getting chores done around the house as the program runs. (Buy it on DVD because you will eventually wear out the tape.)

Based on the Mozart program, we soon bought BABY BACH (made 2000) and BABY BEETHOVEN (made 2002) on DVD. Save your money. BABY BACH is a total bust. He lasts about 7 minutes at best. He never liked it. I don't like it. Stupid still shots of toy instruments just sitting there and gratuitous shots of kids lend nothing.

BABY BEETHOVEN is a fair program and our little guy will sometimes sit through about 15 minutes of it but it pales in comparison to BABY MOZART. The Beethoven video includes even more pointless shots of children and lots of [pricey] toys and mobiles which it promotes at the end.

The music on BEETHOVEN and BACH is certainly as good as the Mozart video but for our baby and for us, the overall presentations just don't cut it.

BABY MOZART however is a wonderful program and should be in almost every child's video library. With Mozart, they did catch magic in a bottle.... Too bad they weren't able to repeat it with the later efforts. Read more ›

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating for baby, 30 minutes for Mommy March 12, 2002

By C. Miller

Format:DVD

This colorful, fun video for baby is the best I've seen so far. Although the "Mozart Effect" (the theory that Mozart's mathematically composed pieces stimulate brain develpoment in babies)is disputed, I bought this anyway after watching a friend's baby reacting positively to it.

The music is perfect, nothing too boring or overwhelming for an infant, and the visuals have delighted my baby from 2 months of age to 17 months, which he is now. During his immobile young months, I would prop him on a Boppy and watch him kick and smile at the fun images of toys, animals, and fruit he saw. Nowadays, we watch together and I name the things onscreen while he dances around to the music.

TV haters stop reading now: I must admit (and recommend heartily) that some days I would play this video when I needed a few minutes to pay some bills or wash dishes/fold laundry. It gave me a break and I knew he was watching something that delighted him but was age-appropriate.

I recommend and often buy this video for new mothers for all of these reasons. For a change of pace, Baby Bach is nice also, but there are 2 parts Brandon cried through because he found them boring.

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Important Info That Doesn't Come With DVDs August 31, 2006

By L. Hawkins VINE™ VOICE

Format:DVD

Baby Mozart: Music Festival is an award winning DVD that introduces your baby to the classical music of Mozart with visually stimulating real-world objects on screen. Lots of moving and engaging visuals, mostly toys in motion, are designed to be simple enough to get your baby's attention while complex enough to hold it for a while. If your baby likes Baby Bach or Baby Beethoven (and very few babies don't) she'll like Baby Mozart as well. This DVD is appropriate for introduction to baby right from birth but will still hold her attention many, many months later.

Most of the videos in the Baby Einstein series are designed as `video board books' for your baby and offer you the opportunity to interact with your child in the same way you do with books as well as act as a distraction for that deeply needed parental bathroom break. Most of the DVDs have the option to "play" or "repeat play" and are about 20-30 minutes in length -- the repetition being very stimulating and comforting to the younger set.

While I don't think viewing Baby Einstein DVDs will make my infant "smarter" she sure does enjoy them! They give me a great way to interact with her as well as a few minutes here and there to get a few things done around the house. Their ability to calm her when she's fussy is already legendary in our household.

Here is information on all the current 21 Baby Einstein DVDs including suggested times to introduce them to your little one. This information IS NOT available with the DVD sets but I gleaned it from several sources for my own use. You may like to print this out for future reference.

Note: All the Baby Einstein DVDs are "region 1" which means they only play on machines in the U.S. and Canada....

Information on each video is divided into categories of age appropriateness:

From Birth and Up
* Baby Bach
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- Engages your newborn/infant through sights and sounds
- uses colorful real-world objects for visual scenes
- Appropriate from birth and up
*Baby Mozart Music Festival
- An award winning DVD
- Introduces your baby to the classical music of Mozart with visually stimulating real-world objects on screen
- From birth and up

Age 1 month and Up
*Baby Beethoven Symphony of Fun
- An award winning DVD
- Featuring the compositions of Beethoven
- Appropriate for ages 1 month and up
*Language Nursery
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- Exposes your baby to sounds of seven different languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, German, and Japanese
- Appropriate for ages 1 month and up
*Baby Santa's Music Box
- Joyeux Noel! Feliz Navidad! Buon Natale! Merry Christmas!
- Celebrate with holiday musical sounds from around the world
- Appropriate for ages 1 month and up

Age 6 Months and Up
*Baby Monet
- An award winning DVD
- A musical introduction to the four seasons
- Features the music of Vivaldi
- Appropriate from 6 months and up

Age 9 Months and Up
*Baby da Vinci From Head to Toe
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- Baby's first introduction to their eyes, ears, hands, feet, and more.
- Features Spanish, English and French language tracks for added learning.
- Set to the music of Vivaldi, Bach and Handel
- Appropriate for ages 9 months and up.
*Baby MacDonald A Day on the Farm
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- A fun-filled introduction to the sights and sounds of a farm
- Features live-action images and engaging visuals of puppets, children, toys, and real-world objects
- Combines traditional nursery rhymes with the classical music of Schubert, Schumann and Strauss
- Appropriate for ages 9 months and up
*Baby Galileo Discovering the Sky
- An award winning DVD
- Baby's first introduction to the sky and solar system
- Features captivating footage of the sky, planets, and galaxies
- Features musical scores by Mozart, Chopin, Strauss and Tchaikovsky
- Appropriate for ages 9 months and up
*Baby Neptune Discovering Water
- An award winning DVD
- Baby's first introduction to water
- Features the melodic scores of Handel's Water Music
- Appropriate for ages 9 months and up

Age 1 Year +
*Baby's Favorite Places
- A playful introduction to words and sign language - my street to main street
- 12 Months +
*Baby Einstein Meet the Orchestra - First Instruments
- First Instruments introduces your toddler to musical instruments that make up an orchestra and the different sounds that they make.
- Features multi-language viewing options in English, French, and Spanish for added learning
- Uses real-life images with classical music by Beethoven, Brahms, Joplin, Haydn, Mozart, and Strauss.
- Appropriate from 1 year
*Baby Einstein On The Go -- Riding, Sailing, and Soaring
- An award winning DVD
- A musical introduction to transportation and "things that go."
- Features multi-language viewing options in English, French, and Spanish for added learning.
- Uses real-life images with classical music by Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, and Rossini.
- Appropriate from 1 year
*Baby Wordsworth First Words - Around the House
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- A musical introduction to baby's first words and communication
- Features bonus language learning with Spanish, French and English tracks
- Includes the music of Bach, Bizet, and Schubert.
- Appropriate from 1 year
*Baby Noah Animal Expedition
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- A musical introduction to animals around the globe
- Features bonus language learning with Spanish, French and English tracks
- Includes the music of Beethoven, Mozart, and Strauss
- Appropriate from 1 year
*Baby Newton Discovering Shapes
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- Introduces your toddler to five shapes
- Features many of Vivaldi's favorite compositions
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up
*Baby Shakespeare World of Poetry
- An award winning DVD
- Poetry in Motion with real world images
- Features award winning Baby Beethoven soundtrack
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up
*Baby Van Gogh World of Colors
- An award winning DVD
- Exposes your baby to the wonder of color through Van Gogh's artwork
- Introduces your baby to classical music selections from Van Gogh's era
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up
*Neighborhood Animals
- An award winning DVD
- Meet animals that live in and around the home
- This DVD compliments the Baby Einstein Animal Discovery Cards
- Engaging music from the 19th and early 20th centuries
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up
*Numbers Nursery
- An award winning DVD
- A playful and interactive introduction to the numbers 1 through 5
- Uses familiar, real-world objects to show what numbers mean
- Features the melodic scores of Haydn, Chopin, Strauss, and Schubert
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up
*World Animals
- Discover animals from the jungle, savannah and ocean
- This DVD compliments the Baby Einstein World Animal Discovery Cards
- Features music from the 19th and early 20th centuries
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up Read more ›

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Musical Masterpiece December 2, 2002

By A Customer

Format:DVD

This has been such a wonderful thing for our baby. She absolutely loves this video and it's music. She started listening to the music when she was just one week old. Now, at 3 1/2 months old, this is one of her favorite things. We have the video for her to watch and the CD for her to listen to away from the television. Whenever she's in a cranky mood, we put on the music and she instantly calms down and listens. She gets so excited while watching the video...she laughs, coos, and babbles at the images. We can already see that she has favorite images and gets so excited when she sees them. We recently purchased Baby Beethoven and Baby Santa. She will watch them, but she doesn't have the same reactions as she does to Baby Mozart. It may just take time for her to get used to the new music and images.
I would definitely recommend this to anyone with infants who wants to expose their children to classical music. The music is performed in a very child-friendly way. If you're worried about your child being in front of the television, just buy the CD and start them early in their appreciation of the Arts!