Amadeus Movie VS Reality
...or by name. Leopold dreamed of his son finding a life outside of Salzburg to where he was bound. Though this intension did not stay with him after his wife Anna Maria’s death he realized it he needed Mozart, but by then it was too late he had settled in Vienna. Aside from these differences the preponderance of the story are the accurate. (Steve Boerner, address: www.mozartproject.org/biography/mozart_1.html). The film Amadeus had other inaccuracies such as the one that involved Antonio Salieri. Antonio was an endowed composer of his time. He studied with Gassmann who he later succeeded as the Italian court composer. Antonio had many pupils including Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt. In Amadeus as in veracity Salieri confesses that he was the one that drove Mozart to his death bed, that he was the one to kill him. Many people would think this to be enough to convict him for killing Mozart, but there is problem with this evidence and that is the fact that he was in an insane asylum when he said it. Salieri was completely insane which is not shown in the movie until the end. People today do not have the evidence to verify that Antonio Salieri’s murdered Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but there is strong sturdy confirmation that there was an extreme hatred on Antonio’s part. (Author not given, address: www.karadar.net/dictionary/salieri.html) Another difference between the movie and reality is that Mozart actually thought that someone was poisoning him which Wolfgang does not say in the movie. This information combined with Mozart’s abrupt unexpected death is what has lead people to believe it was Salieri who murders Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Many historians and scholars are quick to disprove that Antonio Salieri took Mozart’s life. By using valid points such as the fact that Salieri and Mozart were not close. In order for Salieri to poison Mozart they would have had to be more than just they would have had to be friends. He could never have accomplished that grand dramatic death scene as seen in Amadeus. Historians and true fans of music say that Antonio Salieri is anything mediocre, and that was one of the main points of Amadeus Salieri’s mediocrity versus the genius of Mozart. (Author unknown, address: http://www.musiclog.com/m_amadeus_about.asp ) The remainder of the variations between fact and fiction revolve around Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. For instance in the movie we never hear of him completing a comical play for opera buffa, but it is known that he wrote three. His three of his comical operas were Le nozze di Figarro, Cosi fan tutte, Die Zauberflote. The movie does not show Wolfgang ever having a pupil, but in actuality he does. His pupil Franz Suessmayer is the one who finished the Requiem/Death Mass if truth be told. (Stanley Sadie, address: http://3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/moza...