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=** Amadeus Video Summary **=
 * Salieri:
 * Most famous writer in europe
 * Wrote 40 operas
 * He felt tortured by listening to Amadeus Mozart's music
 * Was court composer (servant who writes music for his parties) to Austrian Emperor Joseph II (considered the king of music).
 * Mozart:
 * His music was famous in the 1800’s
 * He is a prodigy - amazing that can do crazy things
 * Started playing in public at 6 years old - sonatas, symphonies and operas.
 * Wrote his first opera at 12 years old
 * Archbishop of Salzburg - owns Mozart (his servant)
 * Arrogant
 * Other important people:
 * Count Rosenborg - runs opera company in Vienna (any concert has to be approved by him), doesn't like mozart
 * Count Debono - incharge of the church music (any church music performed of has to be approved by him)
 * Baron Von Sweeton - big fan of mozart
 * Salieri - court composer
 * Head servant - speaks for all the servants
 * Words:
 * Libreto - story line of opera
 * Herem - place where prostitutes live
 * ** Story: **
 * Set in 1850’s
 * Salieri thinks that Mozart’s music is amazing. He wishes that he could be as good a musician and Mozart so he can praise the Lord through composing. He can’t understand why the Lord favoured Mozart to be his instrument.
 * Antonio Salieri tries to kill himself. A priest goes to see Salieri. He is now old in age and recounts to the priest his relations with Amadeus Mozart.
 * Salieri’s story:
 * Salieri always wanted to be like Mozart when he was little and prayed to Jesus to help him to be a great writer.
 * Salieri works for ages on a piece, but then Mozart comes in and changes it to sound better, in front of all of Salieri’s colleagues.
 * The Emperor immediately instructs Mozart to write an opera in German (not the usual Italian language).
 * Salieri is very envious of his great talents
 * Salieri really likes ___ and accompanies her with a song. Finds himself at a concert watching__ _ with Mozart leading it. Becomes raged.
 * Continues praying to the Lord to be greater than Mozart.
 * 1790’s (can’t photocopy) - Mozart’s wife secretly gives Salieri some of Mozart's original work.
 * Salieri gives up his trust in Jesus
 * Salieri tell lies about Mozart to discredit him
 * Mozart mocks Salieri about his music at a party without knowing that Salieri is was there. Salieri says that is was actually God mocking him.
 * Salieri blackmails Mozart’s maid into telling him everything that he does.
 * Salieri finds that Mozart is writing an opera that is forbidden. He tells the Emperor, and the Emperor eventually lets Mozart play it.
 * The Emperor yawns during him performing it, showing that he’s had enough
 * Mozart’s father dies. He writes an opera about his father
 * Mozart’s wife and their son leave him as he is always getting drunk and taking drugs.
 * Mozart writes an opera about his father coming back from the grave and accusing his son of being a rebel. He then tries to drag him back to hell.
 * Salieri (with the same mask as his father wore at the party) secretly asks Mozart to write a requiem mass (music for funeral). Mozart thinks that that its his father. Salieri plans to then steal the music, then kill Mozart, and then use Mozart’s music at his funeral as if it was his own so he could be loved by all the people.
 * Concerts are made for the middle-class people from the famous part of Mozart's music.
 * Mozart performs another opera and collapses in the middle of it. Salieri takes him back to his home and helps him write the requiem mass.
 * Mozart’s wife comes to see Mozart in the morning.
 * She and Salieri argue about how the requiem mass was killing him because he was working too hard. She locks it in a cabinet.
 * She then goes over to Mozart and finds him dead.
 * Salieri played Mozart’s song at his funeral. Mozart was wrapped up in cloth and then roughly chucked in the grave with other bodies.
 * Salieri finishes telling his story and tells the priest that is was God who killed Mozart, not him. He then gets taken through the hallway of ___ with slaves looking at him. Salieri waves to everyone as if they all love him.