Evaluation:
Published: 01.04.1997.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Mozart', 1.
  • Essays 'Mozart', 2.
Extract

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The movie takes place in Vienna, Austria in the 1700's. The film begins with the attempted suicide of Antonio Salieri, a court composer of the Austrian Emperor. He is placed in a mental asylum where a priest visits and asks for his confession. Salieri claims to have caused the death of Mozart. The rest of the movie is a narration by the court composer, mostly in flashbacks, of how he caused this death.
Salieri recounts that while he was playing games as a boy Mozart was playing music for the King. At the age of four, Mozart composed his first concerto, at seven, his…

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