Carl Maria von Weber, a relative of Mozart by marriage whom Wagner has characterized as the most German of German composers, is said to have refused to join Ludlams-Höhle, a social club of which Salieri was a member and avoided having anything to do with him.

Salieri has even begun to attract some attention from Hollywood.

The action then flashes back to the eighteenth century, at a time when Salieri has not met Mozart in person, but has heard of him and his music.

Salieri cannot reconcile Mozart's boorish behaviour with the genius that God has inexplicably bestowed upon him.

Indeed, Salieri, who has been a devout Catholic all his life, cannot believe that God would choose Mozart over him for such a gift.

In the movie, he is played by actor Jeffrey Jones as a well-meaning but somewhat befuddled monarch of limited but enthusiastic musical skill, easily manipulated by Salieri ; however, Shaffer has made it clear his play is fiction in many respects and not intended to portray historical reality.

* Mozart and Salieri are known to have composed together a cantata for voice and piano called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia which was celebrating the return to stage of the singer Nancy Storace, and which has been lost, although it had been printed by Artaria in 1785.

Since Frank has fled to England, Salieri accepts that Frank is dead and his funeral is given.

Salieri has his bodyguard-turned-traitor, Carlo, killed along with Morello's ally, the councilor ( who is shot while giving a speech at his birthday ).

In the midst of a gun-battle it is revealed that Salieri, having discovered Tommy and Paulie's unauthorized bank robbery, has ordered their deaths.

Sam also tells Tommy that Salieri has mistrusted Tommy for some time after discovering that he hadn't killed either Michelle or Frank, both of whom were eventually found and murdered by the mafia.

In addition to Mozart and Rossini, Bartoli has spent much of her time performing and recording baroque and early classical era music of such composers as Gluck, Vivaldi, Haydn and Salieri.

" Warmen's later album Accept the Fact also uses a quote from Amadeus, and has a song called " Return of Salieri .".

Known for its exceedingly high vocal standard, the choir has worked with musicians including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Caldara, Antonio Salieri and Anton Bruckner

The Latin version has also been set to music in the West many times, notably by Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Over the centuries, the choir has worked with many composers including Heinrich Isaac, Hofhaimer, Biber, Fux, Caldara, Gluck, Salieri, Mozart, Franz Schubert, and Bruckner.

He administrated the Sovremennik until 1982, when he moved to the Moscow Art Theatre, where he has played Molière and Salieri for over 20 years.

Their letters suggest that both Mozart and his father, being Austrians who resented the special place that Italian composers had in the courts of the Austrian princes, blamed the Italians in general and Salieri in particular for all of Mozart's difficulties in establishing himself in Vienna.

Beginning in 1766 Gassmann introduced Salieri to the daily chamber music performances held during Emperor Joseph II's evening meal.

In his old age Salieri hinted that these works were either purposely destroyed, or had been lost with the exception of a few works for the church.

In these first works, drawn mostly from the traditions of mid-century opera buffa, Salieri showed a penchant for experimentation and for mixing the established characteristics of specific operatic genres.

Les Danaïdes was received with great acclaim and its popularity with audiences and critics alike produced several further requests for new works for Paris audiences by Salieri.

) Salieri soon produced one of his greatest works with the text by Casti La grotta di Trofonio ( The Cave of Trofonius ) in 1785, the first opera buffa published in full score by Artaria.

As his teaching and work with the imperial chapel continued, his duties required the composition of a large number of sacred works, and in his last years it was almost exclusively in religious works and teaching that Salieri occupied himself.

In Hamburg he also presented a number of works by contemporaries, including his father, Telemann, Graun, Handel, Haydn, Salieri and Johann David Holland.

In 1801 he moved to Vienna, where he studied with Salieri and Albrechtsberger and produced his first important works.

Mozart wrote to his father in May 1783 about Salieri and Lorenzo Da Ponte, the court poet: " You know those Italian gentlemen ; they are very nice to your face!

They are interpreted as competitive siblings, with Lisa / Salieri being a serious, unappreciated professional and Bart / Mozart the successful, uncouth rock star ( complete with an opera based on " Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit " to the music of Eine kleine Nachtmusik ).

The best known composers from this period are Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven ; other notable names include Luigi Boccherini, Muzio Clementi, Antonio Soler, Antonio Salieri, François Joseph Gossec, Johann Stamitz, Carl Friedrich Abel, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Christoph Willibald Gluck.

A major theme in Amadeus is Mozart's repeated attempts to win over the aristocratic " public " with increasingly brilliant compositions, which are always frustrated either by Salieri or by the aristocracy's own inability to appreciate Mozart's genius.

Interred in the Zentralfriedhof are notables such as Beethoven and Schubert who were moved there in 1888, and Johannes Brahms, Antonio Salieri, Johann Strauss II and Arnold Schoenberg.

Scaletta tells Tommy that ' Mr. Salieri sends his regards ', and both barrels are emptied into Tommy's body.

" Salieri begins his career as a devout, God-fearing man who believes his success and talent as a composer are God ’ s rewards for his piety.

Salieri secretly observes Mozart at the Archbishop's palace, but they are not properly introduced.

The spoken words on the first track ' Accept the Fact ' are taken from the Movie Amadeus, spoken by the character Salieri.

Eventually becoming disillusioned by his life of crime and violence, Tommy arranges to meet a detective ( Detective Norman ) in order to tell him his story, to be given witness protection, and to aid the detective in the destruction of the Salieri crime family.

While Salieri followed the precepts set forth by Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de ' Calzabigi in the preface to Alceste ; Salieri also drew on some musical ideas from the more traditional opera-seria and even opera buffa, creating a new synthesis in the process.

Salieri next turned to Giambattista Casti as a librettist, a more successful set of collaboration flowed from this pairing.

Also as Salieri aged he moved slowly away from his more liberal political stances as he saw the enlightened reform of Joseph II's reign, and the hoped for reforms of the French revolution, replaced with more radical revolutionary ideas.

In 2006, the movie Copying Beethoven referred to Salieri in a more positive light.

In 1997, Ono compared Lennon to Mozart while McCartney, she said, more closely resembled his less-talented rival Salieri.

On more than one occasion it is only the direct intervention of the Emperor himself that allows Mozart to continue ( interventions which Salieri opposes, and then is all too happy to take credit for when Mozart assumes it was he who intervened ).

Though being a friend of Frank for more than 20 years, Salieri orders his death.

The movie Amadeus is framed as a story an old Antonio Salieri tells to a young priest, because the movie is based more on stories Salieri told about Mozart than on historical fact.