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Feb 28, 2019 · 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 ? Our resident Mozart specialist John Suchet sets the record straight.
The death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1791 at the age of 35 was followed by rumors that he and Salieri had been bitter rivals, and that Salieri had poisoned the younger composer; however, this has been proven untrue because the symptoms displayed by Mozart's illness did not indicate poisoning [5] and it is likely that they were, at least, mutu...
- 7 May 1825 (aged 74), Vienna
Feb 16, 2016 · Gossip that Salieri hated Mozart or even tried to poison him seems to have originated after Mozart’s death in 1791. Though Salieri mourned Mozart at his funeral and even later taught...
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Apr 11, 2024 · Salieri’s relationship with Mozart has been the subject of much speculation. There is, however, little evidence for Salieri’s supposed intrigues and damaging remarks against Mozart; indeed, Mozart himself commented in a letter on Salieri’s favourable reception of The Magic Flute.
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Aug 16, 2023 · Alexander Pushkin wrote Mozart and Salieri, a miniature tragedy about a poisoned glass of wine, in 1830, five years after Salieri’s death. Rimsky-Korsakov transformed Pushkin’s play into an opera in 1898. Both accounts suggest that Salieri poisoned Mozart out of jealousy of the younger composer.
May 27, 2019 · Shortly before he died, in 1825, a story that he had poisoned Mozart went around Vienna. In 1830, Alexander Pushkin used that rumor as the basis for his play “Mozart and Salieri,” casting...
Dec 19, 2003 · Thu 18 Dec 2003 21.11 EST. It's hard to say which view of Antonio Salieri is more firmly embedded: that he was the tormentor who drove Mozart to an early grave - perhaps even using a spot of...
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