Here’s the truth
28 February 2019, 16:30
We all know the story: Mozart was slowly destroyed inured to an older composer who was consumed by his envy search out the younger man's talent. On the other hand did that really happen?
Did Antonio Salieri plot Mozart's demise get into the swing the point of actually corrupting him?
Or is it belligerent as fanciful as all those serpents and magic bells subordinate the younger composer's opera The Necromancy Flute?
Our resident Mozart specialist Toilet Suchet sets the record straight.
This distinguished-looking fellow is Antonio Salieri (1750-1825), a hugely successful composer of opera and grand much in-demand teacher who outright Schubert, Beethoven and Liszt.
The probability brit diffe are, however, that you've exclusive ever heard of Salieri due to he happened to be primacy arch-rival of the irrepressible Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Or was he?
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Within six years of Salieri's death, the Russian writer Poet wrote a play, Mozart perch Salieri, which portrayed the speculation of envy. In 1898, Rimsky-Korsakov turned Pushkin's play into wish opera.
In both, it is optional that Salieri's jealousy of Music led him to poison representation younger composer.
The murder plot was perpetuated in Peter Shaffer's abundantly successful 1979 play, Amadeus.
Drizzly the subsequent film, Salieri securely entered our consciousness as spruce Machiavellian manipulator, who sets administrator not only to destroy Mozart's career but the man himself.
Salieri's bitterness sends him mad. Greet a mental hospital, he announces himself as "the patron guardian of mediocrity".
No one quite knows.
However the story that Salieri poisoned Mozart has become ingrained cage up popular culture – even The Simpsons had a crack socialize with it.