Salieri didn´t suck. He was actually preferred ahead of Mozart on many occations. Like in 1781 when both Mozart and Salieri applied to be the music teacher of Princess Elisabeth of Württemberg, and Salieri was selected instead because of his reputation as a singing teacher. And despite the this movie trying to portrait them as rivals, they were actually friends, and good colleagues. Mozart wrote in his last letter to his wife how he loved to see Salieri´s expressions during The Magic Flute.
I empathise with Salieri. When I hear something from Beethoven or Bach I find it so moving, so incredibly beautiful, but knowing with absolute certainty that I could never create something so wonderful is a bit painful.
Not that I'm claiming to understand Beethoven or Bach's work better than others.
@milnoid it would not be possible for a genius like Mozart to be born in an Islamic country, not for the Islamic part of these countries but for the misunderstasnding of Islamic teachings
@slangenglish I'm sure your interpretation of Islam is enlightened and humane. However, the religion is what it is, not what you'd like it to be, or what you think it should be. The Islamic world is a giant social prison, with impediments to creativity that are enormous and ingrained, with a huge reservoir of justification found throughout the Koran and Hadith. The prophet clearly expressed his disdain for music. What music persists in the Islamic world is in spite of Islam, not because of it.
thumbs down if you get goosebumps watching this scene. btw everytime I see a beautiful girl, stunning one, I think to myself : "astounding. it is actually.. beyond belief" or "displace one note and there will be diminishment.. displace one phrase and the structure would fall..."
try to imagine that instead of the music he's talking about some girl which you admire but she's out of your reach..
" I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes.. at an absolute beauty..."
@clearly Not only that but "hear it" with every instrument own voice.When you have heard so much classic with a full orchestra piece by piece you feel every instrument like if it was a chamber trio.To the point that if one player misses a note you may miss it if quick,but the soul resents it and you didn't notice what hitted you.Many more like that in a play and you end up like after coming out of a fight with street cats.Scratched and jagged.Good music cultivates not only ears but soul senses
@nasfan4lyfe My brother is a trained musician. He can hear every note by looking . I annoy him hes say's. "You had all the talent whilst I had to do all the work"
F. Murray Abraham's facial expressions while viewing the music were priceless and Academy award winning ... great acting without uttering a single word. Only a few actors in the world could pull that off
I saw this film again a few days ago and remained completely fascinated by the character of Salieri (the actor did a terrific job!) and by this scene in particular..it possesses such a sublime intensity,his words and his expression when he understands he is experiencing a superior Beauty and Perfection struck me so deeply that I can't stop thinking about it and replaying this scene all day long...By the way, thanks for uploading it! Could someone tell me what is the music playing from 1:08 on?
Ten years ago I just happened to see scene 1:59 to 2:29 and I said I'd watch this movie with the proper T.V. and stereo. I got the video from Net flix last week and I watched the movie once but from the time mentioned above, 50x. When I saw this ten years ago I said I'd give the academy award to the actor and the director just from this scene alone.. I hope they got it. I don't get tired of looking at this.
F.M. Abraham's greatest performance and Forman's greatest film. Many critics of the film (and the play) tittered about the historical inaccuracy. Much of their remarks were in fact true: but neither Shaffer (playwright and screenplay) nor Forman set out to create a biography; they sought to make art. And they succeeded, sublimely.
My husband is a published poet who wrote his second book of verse in six weeks. When he finished, there wasn't a single revision or correction in his handwritten manuscript. It was as though it was being dictated to him and his job was to write it down as fast as he could.
This scene gives me chills every time. This movie is one of the very few I can watch over and over because of the timelessness of Mozart's compositions. For real, Amadeus is one of the best movies ever made.
The fascinating thing about this film is that only Salieri and Mozart have got this gift (note Stanzerl's reaction: "Is it not good?"). Salieri's suffering comes from the fact that he is gifted enough to understand Mozart's genius but is not gifted enough to compose as well.
Just watch his facial expression when flipping through the manuscripts. It says it all: admiration, envy, self-pity ... brilliantly acted. The choise of Mozart's works for this scene is truly inspired, too.
@mn81827 You are absolutely right. To me, this is one of the most emotionally evocative, well acted scenes in the history of film. You have described it beautifully, Mozart - signed, Salieri. :-)
@mn81827 The really fascinating thing about this film is the rip at ''god''. Why implant the desire to compose music and then deny him the talent and instead reward Mozart who is depicted as spoiled, vulgar and infantile. Why torture the hard working Salieri who was a ''model of virtue''. Are all men equal to god???
@mn81827 i sympathise - i have been told i am a gifted musician - in truth - i can only hope to competently interpret the works of the greats - we are all salieris
@Lordofthepastries Not everyone can, I can read music but I can't hear it my head just by looking at it for the first time... But a great musician has no limits. Can you imagine that Beethoven started going deaf like in 1803 and the most fundamental part of his work was composed when he could hear absolutely nothing?
And even if the composer is able to write beautiful lyrics, if the music is good enough, they don't need to. The harp and flute concerto in this video for example. Part of the challenge of writing good music is conveying emotion without resorting to language. Alternatively, music can be set to established religious texts (e.g. the last piece of the this music in this video).
I don't know why some people have to refer to classical pieces of music as songs...
And in my opinion, the lyrics of modern songs are vastly overrated in their importance. True, they can occasionally be beautifully written ("White Queen" by Queen for example), but the majority are not. A lot of Beatles songs have banal lyrics ("She Loves You for example) but work because they are strong melodically, harmonically or rhythmically.
This is one of the best pieces of film ever, but most people would never understand it. You are correct GhangisKen. Abraham brought this to the front like no other actor could. He gave me a new respect for acting when he brought this ghost to life. Kids today are not taught about the masters of the past. They only know about people who are not required to have talent. They make up our celebrity list and do almost nothing for the arts.
This scene makes an interesting point. Highly trained classical musicians, such as Salieri here, are able to read musical notation and hear it in their head. So to such people, the score is the equivalent of the actual music. Say everyone could do this. Instead of paintings on display in galleries we could have musical scores instead! I reckon a lot of people would consider Mozart's music to be greater art than Da Vinci's paintings. So is a Mozart score more beautiful than the Mona Lisa!?
@IrreverantReverend You forget that they are different mediums. One can convey things that the other can't, and vice-versa. Besides, we look at notes when you can just listen to the music? lol.
@tubeman2010 Well that's my point - are they? Paintings are ink (or whatever) on paper (or whatever) that you look at and admire. And here Salieri is just looking at ink on paper and admiring it. We the audience are treated to hearing the actual music but Salieri is experiencing it purely via the visual medium.
And yeah of course since the advent of audio equipment music has been more widely available, but it hasn't always been like this e.g. in the late 18th century!
@IrreverantReverend there the same beauty wich is life itself music and art and poetry are different ways of expressing the same thing that an artist has inside there sole but they all have a different way of getting them out if u were to put mozart's requiem into a painting it would be amazing do the same for the mona lisa and you get the same result something so beautiful it is beyond words
you missed the best part..where mozart's wife asks if he would help her and mozart and he just walks out..this is significant in that it proves his seriousness in the miracle he just witnessed.
@lordinfamous15234 If you watch the director's cut, there is a suprising extra bit between Constanze asking Salieri if he will help and him walking out. I think it's often left out (along with another scene immediately afterwards) because it doesn't add much to the film.
@IrreverantReverend I was actually a bit miffed when I spent money to replace my old DVD with the Blu-ray, unaware of the changes in the director's cut. It's not that the added scenes are terrible, I got quite a kick out of Mozart taking the teaching job for the daughter of the man with the unruly dogs. However, none of the scenes reveal anything new, only unnecessarily make explicit things otherwise only implied in the original cut. Also, one pair of breasts turns a PG into an R rating.
@IrreverantReverend You're absolutely wrong. When he tells her that the scores were "miraculous," she was happy with his compliment...however she thought that it was just an everyday compliment. But then when he walks out on her in shock, she and the audience realize that he TRULY MEANT MIRACULOUS.
No one but he, could play Salieri. I have seen this scene a million times and each time I become locked to the screen. He gives the character the same perverted passion as Geoffrey Rush in Quills.
I'm glad to help. It's from the third movement of Mozart piano concerto for two pianos. (Concerto No. 10 in E-flat major for Two Pianos, K. 365/316a).
It's a certain known fact that Beethoven himself (a student of Salieri) said thet Salieri was a very loving and appreciative person: He found it absolutely impossible that Salieri could harm Mozart. Despite, he respected Mozart deeply for his unbelievable talent!!
Any song writer could easily identify with Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), in this scene. It's always confounded me how some songwriters/composers can write beautiful music so easily, like it just "pops into their head", or something. They don't realize just how blessed, and fortunate they are.
@maluse227 : Well, it's a Gift. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to write a song, but have never been satisfied with my own compositions. I suppose we can be our own worst critics. Take McCartney; He's just been declared the most prolific songwriter in history. He's had 91 compositions in the top 10 Hit List.
@terrafirma91 i think that no one can really claim that title even Beethoven thought he wasn't that good and i do think its true no one i have ever meet likes there own music after there done most of the time how do you write music anyway cause i always just sit down with pen and paper and write it all out and i thought that was how everyone does it
@maluse227 : Well, writing the music is one thing, and composing the lyrics is all together something else. The verses, the stanzas, the chorus, the bridge... Then you have to have the lyrics matching the "mood" of the music. I believe it's the most difficult task in the world, and without a doubt the most difficult aspect of all the performing arts.
@terrafirma91 Schubert wrote over 600 songs and died at the age of 31. Apart from this he composed a body of work including symphonies, chamber music, piano music. His works are still revered and performed throughout the world today, 180 years after his death. McCartney is not the most prolific songwriter in history and I doubt he would claim to be.
@ScoDeu : I had no idea Schubert wrote so many songs during his short life span. I was just parroting what I saw on the Tube, and we all know how wrong media outlets can be sometimes. Thanks for the update. I'll remember this fact the next time.
@terrafirma91 Thanks for your reply. Of course you are right, in the modern media we hear commentators making all kinds of proclamations about all kinds of things based on no knowledge at all.
The absolute highlights of the movie Amadeus, and the only time the truth was told about Mozart, occurred when Salieri was describing Mozart's music. Mozart's music, as Salieri observed, IS divine. But the vulgar cartoon depiction of Mozart himself, is entirely false. All anyone has to do is read Mozart's letters. They show a high minded, noble character, entirely worthy of his musical genius. Mozart's music alone, lifted the movie to watchable status. His genius will live forever.
I am a pianist and I love music, but I never really liked very much music before the late-romantic period, besides some exceptions (ie. Chopin) so I've been ignorant of other music, but they really were geniuses back then, and Mozart was among them. Romantic/late romantic period is just my preference, but I should start listening to more of the older music.
It is Piano Concerto in D Minor, K. 466; 2nd Movement. It's the final song on the soundtrack CD and the song that plays over the credits at the end of the movie. An excellent song.
Concerto for Flute and Harp in C major (2nd movement); Symphony in A major K. 201 (first movement); Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in Eb (last movement); Sinfonia Concertante in Eb, for violin, viola and orchestra (first movement); Mass in C minor (Kyrie) - this last one is part of a mass, not an opera, although very operatic in character ;-)
Salieri having an orgasm when he drops those pages
Lordofthepastries 2 weeks ago
.... Play salieri, Ahh now that is a challenge :)
djk745 3 weeks ago
Anyone knows which is the piece of 1:10? It's divine for me! D: I want the full piece. Thanks!
JoshBIG85 1 month ago
@JoshBIG85 The piece at that time is Mozart's Mass in C minor, movement 1. Here's a performance: youtube.com/watch?v=ds89oQccd48
AndyJB2005 1 month ago
@AndyJB2005 Thank you very much, friend!
JoshBIG85 1 month ago
--> Which is seen as a symbol of Mozarts respect for Salieri.
MichaelDeLucas 2 months ago
Salieri didn´t suck. He was actually preferred ahead of Mozart on many occations. Like in 1781 when both Mozart and Salieri applied to be the music teacher of Princess Elisabeth of Württemberg, and Salieri was selected instead because of his reputation as a singing teacher. And despite the this movie trying to portrait them as rivals, they were actually friends, and good colleagues. Mozart wrote in his last letter to his wife how he loved to see Salieri´s expressions during The Magic Flute.
MichaelDeLucas 2 months ago
what is the song at 0:55?
SantosAfonso97 2 months ago
What is the name of the third song? Thanks beforehand : )
rafa8911 2 months ago
Im still trying to find the IT WAS GOD Scene is that even in this movie? i saw it on family guy
MrDeathslayerr 2 months ago
@MrDeathslayerr it is right after de Mascarede scene. When Mozart makes fun of Salieri at the party.
interlexio 2 months ago
2 people are Salieri's supporters...:-)
suvlaky 3 months ago
salieri was just mad that he sucked and mozart didnt.
SunriseHealthFoods 5 months ago
Some are just borned with it Salieri.
SithSereyPheap1 5 months ago
I can imagine Mozart reacting this way had he lived long enough to have read the scores for Beethoven's work.
CuriosityRoads 6 months ago
I empathise with Salieri. When I hear something from Beethoven or Bach I find it so moving, so incredibly beautiful, but knowing with absolute certainty that I could never create something so wonderful is a bit painful.
Not that I'm claiming to understand Beethoven or Bach's work better than others.
Ashitaka255 7 months ago
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ThreeCrowns 7 months ago
great acting at 0:16 you can see the beauty of that musical phrase becoming apparent in his expression
tkerstin 8 months ago
0:53
LePatay 8 months ago
i listen whole 3rd movement of Concerto for Two Pianos, K. 365 only for 0:47 part
doomless198 8 months ago
Again and again, I am amazed by the acting talent of F. Murray Abraham (Salieri).
meenksellaan1 9 months ago 5
@meenksellaan1 Oh yes, he is a truly great actor. I wish more movie actors were like him.
Detectivefiction 7 months ago
Yeah he is just so extremely fit for this role, he is awesome.
meenksellaan1 7 months ago
عمل اكثر من رائع.........فذ.........مصر
harbehab1 9 months ago
@harbehab1 تخيل لو ولد موتسارت في بعض البلاد الإسلامية اليوم. سيكون إبادة عبقريته.
milnoid 6 months ago
@milnoid it would not be possible for a genius like Mozart to be born in an Islamic country, not for the Islamic part of these countries but for the misunderstasnding of Islamic teachings
slangenglish 5 months ago
@slangenglish I'm sure your interpretation of Islam is enlightened and humane. However, the religion is what it is, not what you'd like it to be, or what you think it should be. The Islamic world is a giant social prison, with impediments to creativity that are enormous and ingrained, with a huge reservoir of justification found throughout the Koran and Hadith. The prophet clearly expressed his disdain for music. What music persists in the Islamic world is in spite of Islam, not because of it.
milnoid 5 months ago
thumbs down if you get goosebumps watching this scene. btw everytime I see a beautiful girl, stunning one, I think to myself : "astounding. it is actually.. beyond belief" or "displace one note and there will be diminishment.. displace one phrase and the structure would fall..."
try to imagine that instead of the music he's talking about some girl which you admire but she's out of your reach..
" I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes.. at an absolute beauty..."
mzltv 9 months ago
Its amazing how great musicians can look at sheet music and actually hear every note.
clearly 9 months ago
@clearly Not only that but "hear it" with every instrument own voice.When you have heard so much classic with a full orchestra piece by piece you feel every instrument like if it was a chamber trio.To the point that if one player misses a note you may miss it if quick,but the soul resents it and you didn't notice what hitted you.Many more like that in a play and you end up like after coming out of a fight with street cats.Scratched and jagged.Good music cultivates not only ears but soul senses
nasfan4lyfe 9 months ago
@nasfan4lyfe My brother is a trained musician. He can hear every note by looking . I annoy him hes say's. "You had all the talent whilst I had to do all the work"
clearly 9 months ago
it is miraculous.
benjosephcuyacot 9 months ago
0:47
hbcser 9 months ago
Thank you man! I've been looking for that first song, the title for a long time! Thanks!
davelsp 9 months ago
I like her boobies :[]
omegapoint777 10 months ago 2
This scene is really awesome : Murray Abraham's acting, Mozart's music... everything is perfect.
Philor94 10 months ago 3
F. Murray Abraham's facial expressions while viewing the music were priceless and Academy award winning ... great acting without uttering a single word. Only a few actors in the world could pull that off
MrPhoenixMustang 10 months ago 18
2:18 - One of the most shocking film scene, EVER!
Vihor189 11 months ago
Salieri wasn't mediocre if he could appreicate music like that
witness124 11 months ago
Only 2 dislikes? wtf?
....btw, that woman's breasts are miraculous T.T
OyonTheAdept 11 months ago 3
@OyonTheAdept
An absolute beauty!
nettuno5 10 months ago 2
A wonderful scene...Just absolutely wonderful!
NekedRooster 1 year ago
Can anyone tell me from what opera the final sequence of the music Salieri is looking at comes from? Thanks.
Macsterna 1 year ago
@Macsterna
Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor- Kyrie
Darkwarrior69 1 year ago
@Macsterna : It's not from an opera, it's the Kyrie from the C Minor Mass.... though it does sound like something that the Countess would sing!
countceprano 10 months ago
I saw this film again a few days ago and remained completely fascinated by the character of Salieri (the actor did a terrific job!) and by this scene in particular..it possesses such a sublime intensity,his words and his expression when he understands he is experiencing a superior Beauty and Perfection struck me so deeply that I can't stop thinking about it and replaying this scene all day long...By the way, thanks for uploading it! Could someone tell me what is the music playing from 1:08 on?
remma90 1 year ago
@remma90 That is the Kyrie from the Mass in C minor KV427.
laerad 1 year ago
@laerad thank you very much! :)
remma90 1 year ago
Salieri eyaculated... LOL
elunicomejor1 1 year ago
Ten years ago I just happened to see scene 1:59 to 2:29 and I said I'd watch this movie with the proper T.V. and stereo. I got the video from Net flix last week and I watched the movie once but from the time mentioned above, 50x. When I saw this ten years ago I said I'd give the academy award to the actor and the director just from this scene alone.. I hope they got it. I don't get tired of looking at this.
bhossast 1 year ago
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Best film ever made!
fibonacci222 1 year ago
F.M. Abraham's greatest performance and Forman's greatest film. Many critics of the film (and the play) tittered about the historical inaccuracy. Much of their remarks were in fact true: but neither Shaffer (playwright and screenplay) nor Forman set out to create a biography; they sought to make art. And they succeeded, sublimely.
briandonohue100 1 year ago 3
nice tits
devilxhlywood 1 year ago
The very voice of God
MrBillymartines 1 year ago
Great scene. Can anyone provide the songs played in it? Especially the piano one at 0:48.
kingkhan2894 1 year ago
@kingkhan2894
Conzert for 2 Pianos and Orchester (KV 365)....one of the most unbelievable pieces composed for a piano...EVER!
sando1975 1 year ago
My husband is a published poet who wrote his second book of verse in six weeks. When he finished, there wasn't a single revision or correction in his handwritten manuscript. It was as though it was being dictated to him and his job was to write it down as fast as he could.
dyad2r1 1 year ago
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This is the best part of the whole movie!
dyad2r1 1 year ago
Absolute beauty. The very voice of God !!!!!
MrBillymartines 1 year ago
concerto for flute and harp mov 1
sebtemple 1 year ago
This scene gives me chills every time. This movie is one of the very few I can watch over and over because of the timelessness of Mozart's compositions. For real, Amadeus is one of the best movies ever made.
RainbowAneurism 1 year ago 5
@RainbowAneurism Totally agree, this movie produceme the same efect. Mozart rocks :)
margonca17 1 year ago
It's amazing how he can be able to hear the music just by looking at the notes. I am not a musician or a reader of sheet music, so it astounds me.
Lordofthepastries 1 year ago
The fascinating thing about this film is that only Salieri and Mozart have got this gift (note Stanzerl's reaction: "Is it not good?"). Salieri's suffering comes from the fact that he is gifted enough to understand Mozart's genius but is not gifted enough to compose as well.
Just watch his facial expression when flipping through the manuscripts. It says it all: admiration, envy, self-pity ... brilliantly acted. The choise of Mozart's works for this scene is truly inspired, too.
mn81827 1 year ago 91
@mn81827
Not a fan of "acting" in general - but this scene in particular, is a masterpiece of film acting, direction, editing - you name it. Really great.
rotamina 1 year ago 2
@mn81827 You are absolutely right. To me, this is one of the most emotionally evocative, well acted scenes in the history of film. You have described it beautifully, Mozart - signed, Salieri. :-)
rskissack 11 months ago 3
@mn81827 It was just a bloody film.....and american! So don't draw any conclusion about Salieri's envious feelings about Mozart's music
guilleory 11 months ago
@mn81827 The really fascinating thing about this film is the rip at ''god''. Why implant the desire to compose music and then deny him the talent and instead reward Mozart who is depicted as spoiled, vulgar and infantile. Why torture the hard working Salieri who was a ''model of virtue''. Are all men equal to god???
nieto1992 11 months ago
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@mn81827
"Salieri's suffering comes from the fact that he is gifted enough to understand Mozart's genius but is not gifted enough to compose as well."
Wrong.
The entire premise of the movie is this.
Perseverance (hard work) versus Pure Genius.
On his death-bed, Mozart confessed that Salieri was the greatest composer of Vienna.
If you were capable of understand music theory, you would had understood that this is a fictional Salieri.
The Real Salieri was 100x more talented.
Romansteel13 10 months ago
@mn81827 i sympathise - i have been told i am a gifted musician - in truth - i can only hope to competently interpret the works of the greats - we are all salieris
thomasnewman8 4 months ago
@Lordofthepastries Not everyone can, I can read music but I can't hear it my head just by looking at it for the first time... But a great musician has no limits. Can you imagine that Beethoven started going deaf like in 1803 and the most fundamental part of his work was composed when he could hear absolutely nothing?
sobelou 1 year ago 4
I want to hear how the music goes on!!!
btw, is it just me or are Salieris legt really thin? ;-)
Mattamster 1 year ago
what was that last piece called?
StupidHippie21 1 year ago
@StupidHippie21 It's the "Kyrie" from the Great Mass in C-Minor. This is probably my favourite scene in all history of films.
ClownenJac73 1 year ago 4
@ClownenJac73 haha i know, i feel like such a nerd :P
StupidHippie21 1 year ago
by the way, that woman's breasts are something else O.O
OyonTheAdept 1 year ago
i've never seen this movie, but it seems as if Salieri's ego was scarred lol
OyonTheAdept 1 year ago
Could somebody tell me whats the name of what is being played at 0:50?
guilini 1 year ago
@guilini It's Mozart's Concerto For Two Pianos, K. 365; 3rd Movement
SmashedBottleMan 1 year ago
Best.Scene.Ever.
GrothendiecksWish 1 year ago
And even if the composer is able to write beautiful lyrics, if the music is good enough, they don't need to. The harp and flute concerto in this video for example. Part of the challenge of writing good music is conveying emotion without resorting to language. Alternatively, music can be set to established religious texts (e.g. the last piece of the this music in this video).
IrreverantReverend 1 year ago
I don't know why some people have to refer to classical pieces of music as songs...
And in my opinion, the lyrics of modern songs are vastly overrated in their importance. True, they can occasionally be beautifully written ("White Queen" by Queen for example), but the majority are not. A lot of Beatles songs have banal lyrics ("She Loves You for example) but work because they are strong melodically, harmonically or rhythmically.
IrreverantReverend 1 year ago
One of a number of brilliant scenes!
nooyawkfun 1 year ago
This is one of the best pieces of film ever, but most people would never understand it. You are correct GhangisKen. Abraham brought this to the front like no other actor could. He gave me a new respect for acting when he brought this ghost to life. Kids today are not taught about the masters of the past. They only know about people who are not required to have talent. They make up our celebrity list and do almost nothing for the arts.
mozartgenetics 1 year ago
what is the music between 0:36-0:46??
michelleandyck 1 year ago
@michelleandyck As @pipo9112 mentioned earlier, they are, in order:
Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299
Symphony No. 29 in A, K. 201 (this is the one you're asking about)
Concerto for Two Pianos, K. 365 (my favorite of the group)
Symphonie Concertante, K. 364
Mass in C Minor, K. 427, Kyrie
samuraiko 1 year ago
mozart the greatest
1hanamoon 1 year ago
This scene makes an interesting point. Highly trained classical musicians, such as Salieri here, are able to read musical notation and hear it in their head. So to such people, the score is the equivalent of the actual music. Say everyone could do this. Instead of paintings on display in galleries we could have musical scores instead! I reckon a lot of people would consider Mozart's music to be greater art than Da Vinci's paintings. So is a Mozart score more beautiful than the Mona Lisa!?
IrreverantReverend 1 year ago 3
@IrreverantReverend You forget that they are different mediums. One can convey things that the other can't, and vice-versa. Besides, we look at notes when you can just listen to the music? lol.
tubeman2010 1 year ago
@tubeman2010 Well that's my point - are they? Paintings are ink (or whatever) on paper (or whatever) that you look at and admire. And here Salieri is just looking at ink on paper and admiring it. We the audience are treated to hearing the actual music but Salieri is experiencing it purely via the visual medium.
And yeah of course since the advent of audio equipment music has been more widely available, but it hasn't always been like this e.g. in the late 18th century!
IrreverantReverend 1 year ago
@IrreverantReverend there the same beauty wich is life itself music and art and poetry are different ways of expressing the same thing that an artist has inside there sole but they all have a different way of getting them out if u were to put mozart's requiem into a painting it would be amazing do the same for the mona lisa and you get the same result something so beautiful it is beyond words
maluse227 1 year ago
this w'HAT critics call 'MASTERPIECE
yyeims 1 year ago
you missed the best part..where mozart's wife asks if he would help her and mozart and he just walks out..this is significant in that it proves his seriousness in the miracle he just witnessed.
lordinfamous15234 1 year ago
@lordinfamous15234 If you watch the director's cut, there is a suprising extra bit between Constanze asking Salieri if he will help and him walking out. I think it's often left out (along with another scene immediately afterwards) because it doesn't add much to the film.
IrreverantReverend 1 year ago
@IrreverantReverend I was actually a bit miffed when I spent money to replace my old DVD with the Blu-ray, unaware of the changes in the director's cut. It's not that the added scenes are terrible, I got quite a kick out of Mozart taking the teaching job for the daughter of the man with the unruly dogs. However, none of the scenes reveal anything new, only unnecessarily make explicit things otherwise only implied in the original cut. Also, one pair of breasts turns a PG into an R rating.
McGuinty1 1 year ago
@IrreverantReverend You're absolutely wrong. When he tells her that the scores were "miraculous," she was happy with his compliment...however she thought that it was just an everyday compliment. But then when he walks out on her in shock, she and the audience realize that he TRULY MEANT MIRACULOUS.
lordinfamous15234 1 year ago
@lordinfamous15234 Have you seen the director's cut?
IrreverantReverend 1 year ago
I'm glad I'm not a composer. I only enjoy his music.
mozartjpn137 1 year ago
1st piece :Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299
2nd piece:Symphony No. 29 in A, K. 201
3rd piece:Concerto for Two Pianos, K. 365
4th piece:Symphonie Concertante, K. 364
5th piece:Mass in C Minor, K. 427, Kyrie
You're all very welcome.
pipo9112 1 year ago 124
@pipo9112 Thank you!!! :)
lordinfamous15234 1 year ago
@pipo9112 is that from memory? if so, bravo/brava!!!
xover76 11 months ago
@pipo9112
Nice work
nettuno5 10 months ago
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@pipo9112 Nice work!
nettuno5 10 months ago
@pipo9112 thanks!!!!!!
enrikoide 8 months ago
@pipo9112 You're very well thanked.
MidgetMelon 5 months ago
When watching this scene I always pretend Salieri is looking at porno. Hilarity ensues.
Okay okay I may be a vulgar man, but I assure you my music is not. :)
juston2 1 year ago
After see this film, Mozart was (and is) my favourite composer.
laianemesis 1 year ago
if somebody provided us a list of these songs, it would be much appreciated.
direwolf404 1 year ago
@direwolf404 theres soundtrack on youtube.
Libby56 1 year ago
@Libby56 ah i found them. thanks for your help
direwolf404 1 year ago
No one but he, could play Salieri. I have seen this scene a million times and each time I become locked to the screen. He gives the character the same perverted passion as Geoffrey Rush in Quills.
killerdo 1 year ago
Does anybody know what's the name of the piece with the violins at 0:55?
simlama34 1 year ago
@simlama34 It's the first movement of Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat, K. 364. It's for violin and viola.
killerecho 1 year ago
does anybody knows whats the name of the piano piece at 0:48
asghary925 1 year ago
@asghary925
I'm glad to help. It's from the third movement of Mozart piano concerto for two pianos. (Concerto No. 10 in E-flat major for Two Pianos, K. 365/316a).
93rardo 1 year ago
MIEEEERDA!!! MUSICA ACABADA EN SU CABEZA...
Mozart está loco... es un jodido Genio...
Piensa que esa musica perfecta solo son improvisaciones y garabatos para él...
COÑO!!!
MIRO 100000 VECES ESTA PELI Y SIGO ASOMBRANDOME!!!
gargoperro2 1 year ago
can anyone tell me what piece begins playing at :54.
fpm919 1 year ago
Can someone please tell me the Title of the opera in the end of the scene?
mishalism 1 year ago
why does hollywood have to put salieri in such a bad light ;) thats more than unfair for a brilliant musician and composer like he was.
suluksummuskulus 1 year ago
Best scene from the movie .....
criskeune 1 year ago
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Simply great music!!
It's a certain known fact that Beethoven himself (a student of Salieri) said thet Salieri was a very loving and appreciative person: He found it absolutely impossible that Salieri could harm Mozart. Despite, he respected Mozart deeply for his unbelievable talent!!
krisdilen 1 year ago
i agree he had a multiples music orgasms, lol
mz854f 1 year ago
i just came...
smoothcriminal28 1 year ago 5
Nice rack!
tobaccotagman2 1 year ago
A musical orgasm. The very best indeed. 2:19
HerrWarja 1 year ago 2
Any song writer could easily identify with Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), in this scene. It's always confounded me how some songwriters/composers can write beautiful music so easily, like it just "pops into their head", or something. They don't realize just how blessed, and fortunate they are.
terrafirma91 1 year ago
@terrafirma91 really i thought that was how it was for everyone how do people regularly write music
maluse227 1 year ago
@maluse227 : Well, it's a Gift. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to write a song, but have never been satisfied with my own compositions. I suppose we can be our own worst critics. Take McCartney; He's just been declared the most prolific songwriter in history. He's had 91 compositions in the top 10 Hit List.
terrafirma91 1 year ago
@terrafirma91 i think that no one can really claim that title even Beethoven thought he wasn't that good and i do think its true no one i have ever meet likes there own music after there done most of the time how do you write music anyway cause i always just sit down with pen and paper and write it all out and i thought that was how everyone does it
maluse227 1 year ago
@maluse227 : Well, writing the music is one thing, and composing the lyrics is all together something else. The verses, the stanzas, the chorus, the bridge... Then you have to have the lyrics matching the "mood" of the music. I believe it's the most difficult task in the world, and without a doubt the most difficult aspect of all the performing arts.
terrafirma91 1 year ago
@terrafirma91 Schubert wrote over 600 songs and died at the age of 31. Apart from this he composed a body of work including symphonies, chamber music, piano music. His works are still revered and performed throughout the world today, 180 years after his death. McCartney is not the most prolific songwriter in history and I doubt he would claim to be.
ScoDeu 1 year ago
@ScoDeu : I had no idea Schubert wrote so many songs during his short life span. I was just parroting what I saw on the Tube, and we all know how wrong media outlets can be sometimes. Thanks for the update. I'll remember this fact the next time.
terrafirma91 1 year ago
@terrafirma91 Thanks for your reply. Of course you are right, in the modern media we hear commentators making all kinds of proclamations about all kinds of things based on no knowledge at all.
ScoDeu 1 year ago
This is one of my most favorite scenes from Amadeus. I love every time Salieri comes on screen and speaks about Mozart's music.
BillyOhRayBob90210 1 year ago 2
@BillyOhRayBob90210 I do too,obviously,even more than some obessed maniac,he was his biggest fan.
TheLovelylove 1 year ago
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302sato 1 year ago
The absolute highlights of the movie Amadeus, and the only time the truth was told about Mozart, occurred when Salieri was describing Mozart's music. Mozart's music, as Salieri observed, IS divine. But the vulgar cartoon depiction of Mozart himself, is entirely false. All anyone has to do is read Mozart's letters. They show a high minded, noble character, entirely worthy of his musical genius. Mozart's music alone, lifted the movie to watchable status. His genius will live forever.
dogface1123 1 year ago 3
I am a pianist and I love music, but I never really liked very much music before the late-romantic period, besides some exceptions (ie. Chopin) so I've been ignorant of other music, but they really were geniuses back then, and Mozart was among them. Romantic/late romantic period is just my preference, but I should start listening to more of the older music.
sillychad18 1 year ago
could anyone please please tell me the name of the music on 00:47? thank you
ngonguyen123 1 year ago
It is Piano Concerto in D Minor, K. 466; 2nd Movement. It's the final song on the soundtrack CD and the song that plays over the credits at the end of the movie. An excellent song.
cpinc40 1 year ago
thankyou very much
ngonguyen123 1 year ago
Concerto No 10 in Eb For 2 pianos KV365 - Rondeaux-Allegro
Tyrfingr 1 year ago
It is actually Piano concerto No 10 in Eb For 2 pianos KV365 - 3rd movement - Rondeaux-Allegro
My personal favourite renditions of Mozarts piano concertos is "Alfred Brendel; Neville Marriner: Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields".
Tyrfingr 1 year ago
One of my favorite scenes
markinro 1 year ago 2
Salieris admiration for the music is in itself something to admire.
Pleasestopissinmeoff 2 years ago 56
Agree: it was the source of his conflict at least in this story. He adored Mozart's music. Couldn't stand Mozart the person.
bookkeeper57 2 years ago 3
Does anyone have any idea of the third piece? Starting at about 0:47.
Sage80 2 years ago
It's from Concerto for Two Pianos No 10 in Eb, 3rd movement, K 365
shrafe 2 years ago
"I was staring through the cage of those meticulous inkstrokes, at an absolute beauty."
Wonderful line.
classicphile 2 years ago 25
Hi. Last piece is from Great Messe K.427.
laianemesis 2 years ago 2
@laianemesis Thank you so much!! I was going crazy to find it!!!!!!
akiross28 1 year ago
Could you tell me the name of last piece (beautiful soprano's aria)?
Janek7473 2 years ago 2
@Janek7473, I know, actually I first heard it in a porno, not a good memory I suppose :P but it's gorgeous isn't it!
sillychad18 1 year ago
Now I know, that it's Kyrie from Great Macc in C
Janek7473 1 year ago
such powerful acting from a movie that has class written all over it :-)
kaattz 2 years ago 6
provate ad ascoltare il Kyrie da una messa di salieri... senza pregiudizi... non ve ne pentirete!
Try to find Kyrie by the salieri's mass... a surprise!
azzomazzo1 2 years ago
What is the name of the 1st piece?
latinre24 2 years ago
Is the 2 movement of the concert for harp and flute of Mozart. It's really nice ^^
Stendhal89 2 years ago
"it is.....miraculous"
nehpets1000 2 years ago 2
Haha she actually hated those Venus' Nipples, but didn't know that she could spit it out after the take.
stratman06 2 years ago
is he gonna pick all that up?
goo83 2 years ago
Lol, yeah that was completely uncalled for.
Babbaganoosch 2 years ago
well u should hav expected it is toooo beautiful lol
Agomongo1235 2 years ago
What music is playing after symphony no. 29.? It is the piano one.
jcbkmk11 2 years ago
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toneeeeeee 2 years ago
Concerto for 2 pianos K 365. Third Mov. Amazing piece.
toneeeeeee 2 years ago
Great actor. Greatest composer ever.
ihamoitc2005 2 years ago 2
¡Qué maravillosos fragmentos se escuchan en esta parte de la película!
urrutiasanchezcarmen 2 years ago 3
"I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at an absolute beauty".
So true.
ernestogasperini 2 years ago 5
Okay so like, Someone should write down all the songs that was played. I love the Opera piece at the end.
TechnoChick17 2 years ago
Concerto for Flute and Harp in C major (2nd movement); Symphony in A major K. 201 (first movement); Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in Eb (last movement); Sinfonia Concertante in Eb, for violin, viola and orchestra (first movement); Mass in C minor (Kyrie) - this last one is part of a mass, not an opera, although very operatic in character ;-)
bersa888 2 years ago 2
Thanks a lot, bersa888. And happy new year!
martinezaguado 2 years ago
Hey can anyone tell me the name of the song being played at 50 seconds? Thanks!
cyriacchaz 2 years ago
There was one composer that was considered an equal, even greater, prodigy.
wefasdf23 2 years ago
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perfectie 2 years ago
I came on myself at 2:18.
warcax23 2 years ago 4