Mozart and Salie managed better than they expected
- The rivalry between composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, to what extent was it real and to what extent was it the result of rumours?
Vienna, 5 December 1791. The great composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies. In addition to interrupting the prolific career of a 35-year-old boy, who left over 600 works, death interrupted rivalry and intense enmity with the Italian composer Antonio Salieri (1750-1825). Or that's what has come to us through poetry, music, theater and film. The view of historians is very different: the alleged hostility began to grow when Mozart died, when the rumor opened that Salieri had poisoned.
Although poisoning has no historical basis, the rumor came to the writer Aleksander Pushkin (1799-1837) and the Russian picked up the event in a poem. From this poem, the composer Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov (1844-1908) later founded the opera Mozart and Salieri. Later, the English writer and playwright Peter Shaffer (1926-2106) also drew inspiration from Pushkin’s poem to create the Amadeus play in 1979. And finally, Czech director Milos Forman (1932-2018) took the play to film with great success in 1984 and won eight Oscar.
Salieri and Mozart fought for language, the life of the musicians was hard and they competed to surround the audience and the patrons. But in general, they were both friends and they helped several times. For example, at the premiere of the opera The Wonderful Flute, Mozart went to look for Salieri so he wouldn't wait in the entrance queue. And Salieri scheduled works of Mozart in the coronation of King Leopoldo II of Bohemia.
In 2015, German musicologist Timo Jouko Herrmann found a work in Prague that was considered lost: Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia cantata de 1785. Three names appear in the composer section: “Cornetti” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri do not know who was behind the nickname yet. So in addition to doing mutual favors, they both created music together. But hatred, dirty play and supposed murder seem more interesting than simple good relationships between peers.
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