The latter contradicts the former’s vision of the type of man God should bestow with such talent. Salieri, a Catholic, renounces God and decides to ruin Mozart. He takes the role of the other composer’s friend while working behind the scenes to bring...

Salieri (left), played by Rob Larson, develops a personal rivalry with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, played by Luke Moravec, in the Duluth Playhouse’s production of Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus,” a fictional account of dueling composers. (Photo by Andrew Benusa)...

This piece makes clever use of four descending notes in many different permutations. Following this, Mozart’s “6 Variations on ‘Mio car’ adone’” from Antonio Salieri’s “La fiera di Venezia” revealed how Wolfgang (and many other composers) stole from...

(Mark Rothko) appeared in King Lear at the Goodman. He is a four-time Helen Hayes Award recipient and a 14-time Helen Hayes nominee. His regional credits include a recently completed run at Round House Theatre as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus, where he...

It appears highly unlikely that he was murdered by a jealous rival composer, Antonio Salieri, although Salieri, an artist in his own right, felt that Mozart the man was not worthy of the genius of Mozart the composer. Others suspected that the Masons,...

Given descriptions of Mozarts symptoms, this appears to be highly unlikely. But the legend has made its way into popular mythology and is featured prominently in the film Amadeus, where the character of the composer Antonio Salieri assumes Sussmayrs role.