re: #235 MicheleR

I saw the movie, all I could find in real life was that the tow of them actually existed, and they both wrote music. Is that all that was true in the whole film??

Mozart complained in letters that Italian musicians at court, including Salieri, were interfering with his getting work he wanted, and playing ‘tricks’ on him. Which they probably were. It was a cutthroat little industry, and you took what you could get. I think there was a rumor, long after Mozart died, that Salieri had him poisoned. So there probably was some professional rivalry, maybe even hostility.

What “Amadeus” does with it though is pure fiction…the deliberate destruction, the whole angle with Salieri’s relationship with God, the commissioning of the Requiem Mass…fiction. Very, very good fiction, mind you. I love that movie.