Amadeus dramatic vs historical truth
The play "Amadeus" by Peter Shaffer was not written in order to be a biography of the great composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, much more than this, Peter Shaffer wrote it as a story, rather than a history. In his story he was free to insert fiction to make the play more interesting to a wide audience, as well as to fulfill his purposes. However, musicologists and historians have written several articles claiming that Peter Shaffer "trashed this immortal". What none of them can see is that in "Amadeus" there are situations that are plausible while others are "fictional ornament". In this paper I will make an attempt to point what is fiction or untruth. The center of the play lies on the character of Antonio Salieri and his obsessive jealously of Mozart. To convey this plot, it was necessary that Salieri had motives enough dislike Mozart. So it was necessary to build a character that was extremely competent but with no talent at all to contrast with a genius who behaved badly. With this, Salieri would have reasons to be jealous. As his first attempt to convey his plot, Salieri is shown as a musical hack as we can see in this extract: "Bewildered, MOZART does so (halts and listens), becoming aware of SALIERI playing his March
Single desperate desire to serve God." Again, in the play Salieri must be exactly how he is portrayed because his personality is the plot itself. His jealousy is the main plot of "Amadeus". In any other way Shaffer could convey his intentions. But what is documented is that Mozart was "extremely irritable. A sort of child. All his sentiments had more violence than depths." - 1804. So Mozart personality was exaggerated in order to convey the plot. Being like this, we would give a minimal reason for Salieri being jealous. It was intentional to make Mozart as a silly person so that Salieri's rage would have a motif. Salieri held his posts in the court from 1774 until 1824. He died one year later in 1825 and in his last years he suffered from senility. During 1824 there was indeed the rumor in Vienna that someone had heard Salieri saying that he had poisoned Mozart. However, many biographies of Mozart don't even mention the probability of poisoning and in 1825 the attendants of Salieri said that they had never heard Salieri saying that he had killed Mozart. On the other hand, as Salieri had such honorable career inside the court, he could have done something to prevent operas like "The Abduction from the seraglio", "The Marriage of Figaro", and "Cosi fan Tutte" from being presented in the court theaters. of Welcome. It is an extremely banal piece, vaguely - but only vaguely - reminiscent of another march to become very famous later one." SALIERI: Not pleasant, Majesty, but true.
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