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Amadeus - The Movie

= Movie Summary = > > = Background Information = > > > = Antonio Salieri = > > > > > > > > = Amadeus Mozart = > > > = Caterina Cavalieri likes Mozart = > > > > > > > > > > > > >
 * Set in early 1800’s
 * features many choral and orchestral pieces
 * Libretto - the plot of an opera’
 * Play of Figaro is banned in Vienna
 * Vienna was the musical center on the world
 * Antonio Salieri- confessing to a priest that he killed Mozart
 * Antonio Salieri was the Court composer for Emperor Joseph
 * Antonio Salieri is Catholic
 * Admired Mozart’s music and felt that he wasn’t deserving of his talent
 * Trying to make Mozart’s life worst
 * Told the Emperor bad things about Mozart
 * Believes that God killed Mozart
 * In the end he believes that God is using him to heal people
 * Mozart was a servant, wasn’t any higher than a butler or a chauffeur
 * Mozart has been commissioned to write an opera
 * The Arch BIshops of Salisbury ‘owns’ Mozart
 * Offered to travel to Vienna
 * Constanze Mozart and Mozart were wed without his father's presence
 *  Mozarts wife went behind his back and submitted his music to Salieri without his consent
 *  Mozart is in debt
 *  Doesn’t like teaching students
 *  Doesn't respect Salieri's music (MOcks him at the dinner)
 *  His father dies
 *  Mozart wrote an opera about his father coming back from the dead
 *  Offered to write a Mass Ceremony for someone who deserved one (His father)
 *  He has a child
 *  His wife leaves him
 *  He starts to get sick and the quality of his health decreases
 *  Never finished the requiem
 *  He died in His sleep