![]() ![]() Only Salieri knows the truth, and as he waits for death, he begs the ghosts of the distant future-his audience-to hear his story, to know his truth once and for all. ![]() “All the same… Is it just possible? Did he do it after all?” What’s more, the buzz around Vienna-“the city of Slander”-is that Salieri has gone mad: after all, the reclusive Italian won’t stop raving that he killed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the revered Austrian composer who died thirty years earlier. Now 73 years old, Salieri has lived long enough to see his music fall out of fashion and his influence in the Viennese court dwindle, as his role as the royal music director fades from a position of power to a mere title of respect. ![]() In 1823, the year that Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus begins, Antonio Salieri, at one time Vienna’s most celebrated composer, is past his prime. ![]()
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