Salieri was also not "court composer" when Mozart arrived in Vienna. That was Christoph Willibald Gluck.
The whole German v Italian thing was a contrivance as well. Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail was not a novelty. Singspiel had been around for quite a while in Germany and France and Serail was not even Mozart's first effort in the genre, ( that would have been Zaide.)
Still, even with the historical slips, a fine film. Just treat it like the fucking bible: ahistorical.
The whole German v Italian thing was a contrivance as well. Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail was not a novelty. Singspiel had been around for quite a while in Germany and France and Serail was not even Mozart's first effort in the genre, ( that would have been Zaide.)
Still, even with the historical slips, a fine film. Just treat it like the fucking bible: ahistorical.
