Mozart and 'Amadeus'

Podcast: Composers Datebook · American Public Media

Opublikowano: 2026-11-02

Synopsis On today’s date in 1979, a new play by Peter Schaffer, Amadeus, opened at the National Theatre in London. Schaffer’s play tells the story of Mozart’s final years in Vienna, including some posthumous gossip that it was the petty jealousy and back-stabbing intrigue of Mozart’s Italian contemporary Antonio Salieri that hastened his untimely demise. There was even a Romantic legend that Salieri had actually poisoned Mozart, a legend Shaffer gave a psychological spin. Music historians were quick to attack Shaffer’s play as wildly inaccurate and downright...