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 * 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.
 * Mozart’s wife offered herself to Antonio but he rejected her and she is upset but won’t tell mozart why she’s upset.
 * Mozart could make a dog stop howling at his music and can play without even looking at the instrument but got very upset at the people who owned the dogs as he didn’t want to babysit his dog’s.
 * Mozart was extremely wealthy and was placed in a great financial position in life. He had the finest glassware and could have anything he wanted.
 * Mozart could play the piano upside down, back to front and with his eyes closed if he wanted to.
 * Mozart was making fun of Antonio and Antonio was watching him do it.
 * Antonio thought that God was laughing at him through Mozart’s enjoyment of making fun of him.
 * People send Mozart gifts all the time and Antonio sent him a maid and his father didn’t want that for his son.
 * Antonio is trying to sabotage Mozart.
 * Mozart did not respect Salieri's music or composition at all, instead he made fun of it.
 * Salieri paid this maid to spy on Mozart and his family even though she was supposed to be cleaning.
 * Salieri looked up to Mozart and highly respected his musical talent and composition.
 * Salieri snuck into Mozart’s house and looked at his financial situation as well as his sheet music. He found out that Mozart was writing an Italian opera called Figaro which was banned by the emperor. Figaro is a piece about love.
 * Mozart was passionate but does not persuade.
 * Figaro the opera is an opera of love and it is a dance at Figaro’s wedding.
 * The director of the opera ripped up a huge section of Mozart’s opera and Mozart got upset and turned to Salieri for help.
 * The emperor attended rehearsal and he never does.
 * Salieri told Mozart that he was going to talk to the director but he never ended up doing so.
 * The emperor wasn’t impressed with Mozart’s work.
 * Salieri loved the opera so much, he thought it was ‘brilliant’, ‘astounding’ and ‘bold’.
 * The emperor yawned which meant good things for Salieri and bad things for Mozart, he would only get around 9 performances for one yawn, a week worth of performances for 2 yawns, and with 3 yawns he would only get a couple of days worth of performances.
 * Salieri’s opera was a lot more successful than Mozart’s as it lasted longer and he was therefore able to play more performances (he got very huge applauses at the end of each performances).
 * The emperor said that it was the best opera ever written which made Salieri very happy and he felt more powerful than Mozart.
 * Mozart’s father died so 2 men were sent from Salzburg to his house and his wife told him.
 * Mozart made an opera with the main focus of a ghost who represented his recently dead father but in the opera a sergeant who rose from the dead.
 * Mozart and his wife had a baby boy.
 * The opera who was starring Mozart’s dad had a very scary and dark meaning to the story, which was that Mozart’s father (the sergeant) was possessing the son and telling him that he was a terrible son and Mozart thought his father was still possessing him from the grave where his dead body had been laid in.
 * A messenger was sent to Mozart’s house to ask Mozart to write music for a funeral service for somebody who deserved one but never got one (Mozart’s dad). To convince/win Mozart over, he came to Mozart’s house dressed in the same mask his father once wore.
 * A large amount of money/gold was given to Mozart to write the opera for his father’s funeral service even though Mozart at that time didn’t know that it was for his own father.
 * The messenger who went to Mozart’s house was Antonio trying to kill him and the opera he wanted Mozart to write for the requiem mass was not his dad’s funeral, but his own.
 * Antonio was planning to kill Mozart but had trouble figuring out how he would actually kill him.
 * They made an opera with lots of songs from different operas mixed together and it was mainly for the less rich people who couldn’t afford to go to Mozart’s operas or Antonio’s operas.
 * Mozart’s wife needed money immediately as Mozart and her were going broke.
 * Everyone stopped wanting to be taught by mozart as much so therefore he stopped making as much money as her originally did at the start of his career.
 * Mozart’s wife always called him ‘Wolfie’.
 * Mozart became an alcoholic and took drugs. He was mostly drunk all the time.
 * Mozart’s maid didn’t want to work for Mozart anymore as she was frightened by him being an alcoholic and all the drugs he was taking and the fights he was having.
 * Mozart and his family are currently broke.
 * Mozart found out that the messenger wanting the opera from him was trying to kill him so he told his wife, Stanzi, and she got frightened and started to cry and got worried about him as she thought he was going mad from all the drinking and taking of drugs he had been doing.
 * Mozart did not want to finish the opera for the funeral messenger as he just wanted to stay drunk and have fun.
 * Mozart ran away for the night after his wife fell asleep so this lady told his wife to run away and take their child with her so Mozart was left with nothing and his life was going in a bad direction very quickly.
 * Mozart continued to write operas and perform even though his wife was gone, he had no money, he was mad and always drunk.
 * Mozart didn’t want to finish the requiem as he said it was killing him.
 * Mozart fainted halfway through playing piano for an opera.
 * Antonio was watching the opera when Mozart fainted so he came to get Mozart and took him to Mozart’s house.
 * Mozart thanked Antonio for being so good to him and attending all his operas and looking after him all the time but Antonio hesitated to accept Mozart’s thanks.
 * Antonio wanted to help Mozart finish his music for the funeral and Mozart said yes.
 * Mozart and antonio decided to work on the opera together.
 * Stanzi (Mozart’s wife) returned to the house with Mozart inside and she instructed Antonio to leave but he would not.
 * Mozart showed no emotion when his wife and little boy came back to his house.
 * Mozart died from too much alcohol and drugs and had a funeral which even the maid attended who was scared of him.
 * Antonio thought that God killed Mozart and kept himself alive to suffer and get blamed for his death.

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 * The requiem Mozart was writing before he died was never finished by him but was written in the style of Mozart
 * When Mozart died, he died broke so he didn’t have money for a good grave so he was thrown in with with a pile of other bodies instead of his own special grave.