Instead he spent time revising his previous works. He did have an impressive roster of pupils: Beethoven, Schubert, Meyerbeer and Liszt - not to mention Franz Xaver Mozart, his supposed adversary's young son. But the composer who had once been at the vanguard of new operatic ideas was not necessarily teaching his students to be similarly innovative; we can only be grateful that Schubert ignored his diatribes against the "intolerable" genre of Germanic lieder.
So how did this respected musician become the rumoured murderer of the great Mozart? Nobody knows for certain. But in his final weeks Mozart is reported to have believed he had been poisoned, and had gone so far as to blame hostile Italian factions at the Viennese court.
People put two and two together and pointed the finger at Salieri. And who could resist a story this good? Certainly not his fellow composers. There are mentions of it in Beethoven's Conversation Books. Weber, Mozart's father-in-law, had heard it by , and cold-shouldered Salieri ever after. And 20 years later it was still doing the rounds; Rossini joked about it when he met Salieri in As the rumour gathered strength, all denials only served to reinforce it.
Then, in , Salieri - hospitalised, terminally ill and deranged - is said to have accused himself of poisoning Mozart. In more lucid moments he took it back.
But the damage was done. Even if few believed the ramblings of a confused old man, the fact that Salieri had "confessed" to Mozart's murder gave the rumour some semblance of validity. Today, although we know it's almost certainly false, the image of Salieri as poisoner persists. And 20 years later it was still doing the rounds; Rossini joked about it when he met Salieri in As the rumour gathered strength, all denials only served to reinforce it.
Then, in , Salieri - hospitalised, terminally ill and deranged - is said to have accused himself of poisoning Mozart. An elderly Antonio Salieri confesses to the murder of his former colleague, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , and attempts to kill himself by slitting his throat. Why was Salieri jealous of Mozart? Category: music and audio classical music.
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Two candidates are strep infection and kidney failure. Later in life, Salieri said that the Requiem was the work of a dissipated man who, through music, had found his way to eternity.
A count and a marquise are captives on an exotic island where warrior women rule over demure men. The Count, having fallen in love with a female soldier la Colonella , chooses to remain on the island.
A recording on the Dynamic label, derived from a revival, in Verona, reveals a warmhearted score, rich in mischief. But the principal black character, a servant named John, escapes the stereotypes of the day. Remarkably, he wins the love of a white maid named Betty, with whom he shares an elegant, playful love duet in quick waltz tempo, preceded by the following dialogue:. J ohn : What have I always said? One must hope. With hope one goes farthest.
Hope gives healthy blood. B etty : And healthy blood brings bliss and cheer. Cheer and bliss should never leave us. Herrmann infers that the interracial kiss caused unease, since it disappeared from a subsequent revival of the opera.
Salieri had addressed racially charged material before. Still, the spectacle of people of color winning freedom was novel. Salieri suffered heavy personal losses as he grew older. His only son, Alois, who was also a gifted composer, died, of gangrene, in Beethoven received guidance from Salieri in vocal writing.
Relations between the two were soon patched up. There is no doubt that Salieri preached traditional musical values to his students. Schubert would embrace that vogue, yet he remained fond of his teacher, who had first taken notice of him when he was a choirboy. Gossip spread across Vienna that he had confessed to having poisoned Mozart, and had attempted suicide.
But two medical orderlies who had attended to Salieri testified that he had said nothing of the kind. The long requiem, not the short one, was played. We all know the story: Mozart was slowly destroyed by an older composer who was consumed by his envy of the younger man's talent. But did that really happen? Did Antonio Salieri plot Mozart 's demise to the point of actually poisoning him?
Or is it just as fanciful as all those serpents and magic bells in the younger composer's opera The Magic Flute? This distinguished-looking fellow is Antonio Salieri , a hugely influential composer of opera and a much in-demand teacher who taught Schubert, Beethoven and Liszt. The chances are, however, that you've only ever heard of Salieri because he happened to be the arch-rival of the irrepressible Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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