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__Amadeus - The Movie__

Movie Summary:

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 * Antonio Salieri tried to kill himself because he thought he killed Mozart
 * He is taken to a mental hospital to be treated
 * He is a piano player ( writes music that was very well known in the day)
 * he wrote opera music
 * Mozarts was a fabulous musician, he wrote his first operas at 12
 * Antonios father didnt believe in music
 * Mozarts father took him around to play his music to the king, queen, princesses and princes
 * Antonios father died
 * He became a court composer of emperor joseph
 * He taught young children music for free
 * Mozart was a servant in a palace that wrote great music
 * Guy in the blue coat runs the opera
 * Fat guy runs the churches
 * set in the olden days when there was no electricity and they had to use candles. The houses looked like castles.
 * Antonio Salieri
 * the whole movie is Antonio confessing to a priest how he thinks he killed Mozart.
 * The music being played is my Mozart
 * It is set in the early 1800’s
 * very over the top costumes for performances and everyone spoke poshly.
 * Antonio wrote 40 operas alone.
 * Mozart wrote his first opera at 12, his first symphony at 9, his first concerto at 4.
 * Antonio hated his father as he wanted to be like Mozart and have a father like Mozart’s father who was supportive of his music career.
 * Antonio was the court composer of Emperor Joseph of Austria.
 * In the late 1800’s Vienna was the place to go for a music career or to become a court composer.
 * The archbishop of Salzburg owns Mozart.
 * Mozart was a servant (for the archbishop) originally before he became super famous.
 * Antonio looked up to Mozart as his idol and was jealous of him. Whenever Mozart was playing music and practicing his art, Antonio would be playing around with friends.
 * ‘Russell’ runs the opera companies, he has to approve all the music before it goes into the Opera houses.
 * Church and royal are the 2 types of importance.
 * In Vienna they speak German.
 * And the 3 main music composers are all Italian who are discussing whether to have the musical in Italian or German.
 * Antonio was Italian
 * The doorways were amazingly massive because they lived in royalty. Real gold paint and chandeliers everywhere.
 * They wore wigs and also powdered them.
 * lobretto is the story for an opera.
 * harem is a place where prostitutes work.
 * Mozart can play any piece of music and also adapt it the first time he sees it/hears it.
 * Antonio was in love with the girl singing opera (Katerina) but she liked Mozart instead.
 * The girls weren’t allowed to show their ankles back in those days so they wore body length dresses to hide their ankles.