Salieri in Amadeus
April 29, 2016 at 5:28 am
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2016 at 5:51 am by Alex K.)
The movie "Amadeus" based on the same play is very entertaining, and has aged rather well for an 80s flick, but without knowing much about Salieri, something seemed very odd about how he was portrayed, basically as a bumbling amateur who could barely write a proper piece of music and was enraged by how Mozart was actually capable of composing nice things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ciFTP_KRy4
I wasn't very surprised when I read up on him and discovered that the way he is portrayed in the movie is entirely made up. It's really quite a pity that the film sullied his reputation in contemporary culture like that, when he himself was not only an excellent composer and influential opera pioneer, but also gracious teacher to people like Beethoven, and friendly colleague with Mozart, with whom he even collaborated on occasions as we now know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO7xz7qTrlI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwJ4o84sa4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ciFTP_KRy4
I wasn't very surprised when I read up on him and discovered that the way he is portrayed in the movie is entirely made up. It's really quite a pity that the film sullied his reputation in contemporary culture like that, when he himself was not only an excellent composer and influential opera pioneer, but also gracious teacher to people like Beethoven, and friendly colleague with Mozart, with whom he even collaborated on occasions as we now know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO7xz7qTrlI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwJ4o84sa4U
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
