Salieri in Amadeus

[Rev. Rye]

Yet there's no idication of Salieri really having felt that way. Miloš Forman just built on the rumors, in the same way as From Hell built on outdated rumors surrounding the Ripper story.

Uh-Uh-Uh. It was Peter Shaffer who built on the rumors. Milos Forman just made them more well-known by taking his play, which built on the rumors, and making it into a movie.

He, so to speak, crafts insanely perfect China for the dining room cabinet while Beethoven composes the roof of the Sistine chapel.

Yeah, and, thanks to this sort of mentality being common in the Classical period, that's why, with the exception of a few names, like Mozart, Haydn, Rossini, maybe opera composers like Gluck and Bellini, a few scattered pieces by Boccherini, and Beethoven (who's usually grouped with the Romantics anyway), much of the music of the Classical Period has fallen out of favour.