RE: Salieri in Amadeus
May 7, 2016 at 3:38 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2016 at 3:38 pm by Alex K.)
(May 7, 2016 at 2:57 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(April 29, 2016 at 5:28 am)Alex K Wrote: 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.
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Yeah, well - depictions of musicians in popular movies are usually fairly inaccurate. As it turns out, Beethoven - probably wasn't a St Bernard either...
But how do you explain the line "Alle Hunde werden Brüder" in his 9th, which I always took as a harsh indictment of dog breeding practises?
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