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  • This Salieri composition is in certain way amusing to listen. It has been played and also sounds better then the notes on the musicpaper are. There are a lot of unlogical or missing harmonic progressions. I've got trained ears but I think even with no musical traing everybody feels the music is not round.

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  • @Sviolinist 1."The mathematics of Salieri's composition are not correct." This is just becouse of your Mozart trained hearing. His compositions are not correct too, but you do not notice it becouse of istablished paradigm, that you have brought up from childhood. Now everything is changed and reinterpreted, but you probably do not understand it.

    2.Well, are you excited about your IQ? Congratulations, Mr. brilliant listener. In this case, the conversation can indeed be considered complete.

  • Salieri é ótimo, Mozart é fantástico!

  • @SpadaccinoLuciano, I thought Salieri was Italian

  • @ithurtzmister no he was an african american...

  • thanks for sharing. I wish I can listen to 'Salieri' much more.

    I want to know better about him.

    aananda

  • I'll tell you WHY Mozart "won" over Salieri - He's white. Mozart is German, and white. It's that simple.

  • @SpadaccinoLuciano is that a joke? was there a lot of awesome black composers being ignored in the 18 hundreds? lol i dont think either of em won, their both dead, call it a draw.

  • @SpadaccinoLuciano

    Erm... actually, Salieri was an Italian, born and raised in Venice. He was, also, most definitely white; there is at least one portrait to prove it.

  • @JanJanszoonII Uh, yah, and Im Italian, and I can most confidently assure you that we are not white. Everyone was paled down in those portraits as well. They wouldn't want a filthy arab-looking person hanging on their wall, after all.

  • for the lovers of classical music,

    that's the best requiem i've ever heard:

    Giuseppe Verdi requiem.

    let me know if you know other nice requiems!

  • Alright people - for perspective, go listen to Schubert 1st symphony. We're talking a 16 year old kid who was a student of this guy.... listen to THAT and then listen to this drivel. Salieri is a damn moron and a pompous fool. He'll never be more than that no matter how much you deaf people dream.

  • @Sviolinist Please explain how you're in a position to deduce that Salieri was a "moron" and a "fool".

    There simply isn't enough known about his personality to conclude that.

    Mozart, however is a different story.

    From anecdotes and his own letters he appears to be a perfect example of a moron and a fool! - and a very childish and immature one at that.

    All he seems to have done was hurl childish insults at other composers and make jokes about farting.

  • yes that right... is a movie... but the reality is that now a lot of people have a wrong opinion of salieri...

  • Everyone who thinks that Salieri was the best composer ever should LIKE HIS FABCEBOOK_FAN_PAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!! SO that the world will know that he was the best composer ever!!!!

  • ..and when Salieri became Kappelmeister for the1st representation he thought at "Figaro's wedding" and not at one of his operas. At least when Salieri was old, sick and blind seems that he accused himself for the death of Mozart and from this here you have the book and after the movie. Who knows?

  • So how someone told" If is true that Salieri was not the killer of Mozart, is true that Puskin is the killer of Salieri". Who knows? Maybe that a feeling of jealousy was reciprocal and maybe that someone others blew on the jealousy fire to have advantage from their rivalry. But is true that all the great students of Salieri loved him and when Mozart's father accused him for the1st of "Figaro's wedding" that was a Fiasco is true that Salieri was in Paris and could not anything bad against him

  • Gracias signore.

  • salieri was a great musician and generous man, mozart was a great musician but a brat

  • Salieri was too underappreciated, and still is. I love Mozart, but Salieri was great too, in his own way. They were both great.

  • A light years from the Salzburg divine genius indeed...but why not give a chance to Salieri ?

  • motzat shits on this bum end of story

  • @jewjew322 lurd

  • @jewjew322 The fact that this comment has thumbs up says alot about the average "Mozart fan", sadly.

  • The Salieri's music is egal than Mozart's music, so why the humanity forgot the genius of Salieri and put Mozart on a pedestal ? For me these two musicians was great, talented... and are forever ! Together.

  • Regrettably I saw the movie before knowing about Salieri.

    I think he was an amazing composer, why did they make him appear like stupid beside Mozart ???..........

  • @ferdinando1945 His music sounds more... proper? Mozart's music can draw out deep feelings unlike Salieri's music. I'm sure Salieri was a genius, it's just that his music can't really touch my heart as Mozart's can.

  • @ferdinando1945 They did that because he was always a step behind Mozart and he even admitted it himself.

  • without the film Amadeus, still very few people would know Salieri. That's reality. Whether Salieri is who's teacher blabla, it does not matter.

  • he also was the teacher of Hummel, Czerny and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, son of the Great Amadeus :-))

  • I have to rectify myself: Salieri was the teacher also of Schubert and Liszt. I didn't know he lived until 1825! I think he was too much underestimated.

  • I have to rectify myself: Salieri was the teacher also of Schubert and Liszt. I didn't know he lived until 1825! I think he was too much underestimated

  • who cares which one is better, just enjoy the music, because for that reason they composed it.

  • salieri was really gifted i like this music it rings inside my head

  • Salieri is my great (ect) cousin on my mothers side, and he is BRILLIANT!! I have a bunch of copies of his music in my room that I play. Amadeus is a rather inaccurate movie, however, it does portray Salieri as a man of greatness. He trully was "The Toast of Europe". he was financhly well while Mozart...was...well..broke!! And Salieri wasn't solically awkward either. So, A toast to Salieri!!

  • 12 people saw film "Amadeus" :D

  • " Mozart ! ...Mozart ! ... FORGIVE ME, MOZART! "

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  • thankyou for elucidating the crucial difference between Mozart and Salieri.

  • Шанс что Сальери отравил Моцарта один из миллиона.Но единичка все таки есть,и поэтому слушать его музыку я не БУДУ!!!!!!

  • You know, for a movie about salieri's life (I know mozart was technically the "star", it's still all about salieri) they hardly ever play any of his music. I hope people can see how amazing he was, because the movie didn't show off his talent at all.

  • Mozart he wasn't, but really all it takes is one silly movie and the poor man's reputation is sullied forever. Don't get me wrong, F. Murray Abraham was brilliant in Amadeus, but he comes off as kind of a pathetic, creepy loser.

  • Grazi, Signore.

  • @Lassannn GraziE

  • @bagelzkickass

    how can a movie be more interesting than the actual events of Mozart's time?

  • Nice, and he was Italian, like me =)

  • The movie Amadeus may have been inaccurate, but I think it's a lot more interesting than what really happened.

  • @bagelzkickass

    I can respect your opinion, but frankly the true story of Mozart's Requiem is more interesting that the grossly fabricated one in Amadeus. ;)

  • Somehow I doubt many of the people who say Mozart is simply better than Salieri could actually articulate why Mozart is better than Salieri. I also doubt a significant number of these same detractors of Salieri have actually taken the time to listen to and digest his work.

  • well mozarts music is clearly more memorable no?

  • @02910748

    No.

  • C'est tellement beau :D

  • hehe, yea, the poor salieri. nice composition

  • Mozart likes this

  • i like the movie, but your all fags.

  • @MurdaZen You're*

  • @sodiumsimone02 i like the movie, but you're all fags.

  • @MurdaZen Twatface.

  • @zerker12568901 i like the song, and i like the movie, i just don't like the people arguing about the movie, im not a "twatface" but its ok i forgive you.

  • Thank God it doesn't matter anymore. They're dead, not sitting in a cloud calculating who is more famous as history goes by.

  • Thumbs up if you know that the movie "Amadeus" is a pack of blatant lies and that Mozart and Salieri were in fact good friends (and occasionally friendly rivals) who supported and staged each others' music and collaborated on a (sadly lost) cantata called "Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia".

  • Grazia Signore! :D

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  • Sublime musique...

  • Please, one favour Hollywood: FUCK YOU!

  • sa signifie florent mothe pour moi j'adore

  • HELLO WORLD

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  • Salieri was very wienerish (if you can call it that) , and I'm not too big a fan of wienerclassical. Which i probably why I'm such a big Beethoven fan =]

  • @RectumPilum Salieri was Beethoven teacher of music!

  • @RectumPilum Salieri was Beethoven's teacher of music! His great students were Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Czerny and Hummel

  • @domenicodimemmo and...?

  • notevole compositore troppo sottovalutato, purtroppo il paragone con mozart non gli rende l'onore che comunque si merita....

  • Solo un'italiano può commentare Il grande Antonio Salieri, colui che ha addestrato i geni della musica come Beethoven e Wagner.

  • But we want to compare to Mozart Salieri !?!?!? Only by Salieri and Mozart only envy against ... By Mozart's music ....

  • @Nirvy90 Salieri was expecially a teacher of music more than a composer (good composer). Salieri was Beethoven's teacher of music! His great students were Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Czerny and Hummel

  • That's him! The swine that pwned Mozart!

  • I loved the movie a lot anyway. And Murray Abraham was a great great great Salieri

  • All musicians know Salieri was the teacher of Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt and they all loved him and dedicated music to their teacher, moreover he was the most famous composer in Europe at his time. Mozart was a genius but not a great man, Salieri was a great man, not a genius, but he appreciated Mozart and helped him many times. This is the "real" story we know by the original sources, not cinema or theatre. I can imagine Mozart was the evious one because of Salieri's fame, who knows?

  • @Romeniawe MOZART WAS NOT A GREAT MAN?

  • @Romeniawe MOZART WAS NOT A GREAT MAN?

  • @jormaliconis just because someone is a genius in a certain field, it doesn't mean they have to be great as human beings. einstein was a great savant, but a piece of sh*t as a human being.

  • @jormaliconis Mozart was a musical genius, but when I read his letters to his father and friends I was surprised he was not the man I expected. We can see represented in the movie of Forman the "real" Mozart, a bit superficial and childish,always looking for money because he was wasteful, and absolutely genial, but we don't see the real Salieri, who helped and encouraged Mozart a lot. Forman (or better the writer of the story) tells us Salieri was mediocre and this is not true ethically speaking

  • @Romeniawe

    Mozart spoke bad about all the others musicians, especially th italians because they had the best role in the germany countries in that time, but spoke bad also about Haydn and Haydn was supposed to be his friend.

  • @Romeniawe Even if the Movie totally misrepresented both Salieri and Mozart, ( we all know that), it generated a huge interest in Classical Music, and people wanted to hear more of this brilliant, emotional, & inspiring music, the like of which, they had never heard before, instead of the plastic rubbish we are fed continually by the media.

    So, it was good for classical music, and made many converts, which is great.

  • @Romeniawe why is it so everyone speaks of a "battle" between Mozart and Salieri? What historical events support the idea that both didn't endure what another?

  • As far as I know Salieri never tought Schubert and Liszt, because they were born way in the 19th century, when Salieri was already dead. But he certainly was a very good composer. The one introducing the enmity between Mozart and Salieri was Rimsky Korsakoff who wrote an opera about that theme.

  • @Poedelify Salieri did teach Schubert. He is quoted as having said " I cannot teach that one anything."

  • @Romeniawe How foolish to even say that 'Salieri...not a genius. Have you ever listened to his music jackass?

  • @kreeezle I've listened to tons of Salieri's music. He is no music genius. Did you even listen to this whole piece? It sounds like a 3 year old plodding at the keyboard just after 0:49

  • @Sviolinist It obviously does to you, but you must remember that your opinion is purely your own.

    There's no doubt Salieri's music is somewhat unsophisticated compared to Mozart's, but there is a real wholeness of style in Salieri that appeals to many.

    It does no-one any good to become to elitist and closed minded.

    Personally I love Salieri's music as much is Mozart's, but for different reasons.

    People who disagree with you are not interested in your opinion. Get over it.

  • @wks1978 I had intended to post a remark; however, I now understand your point. Please forget.

  • @Sviolinist Well, "listen to tons" of Mozart's music. And you say the same thing about his "musical genius". Or any other composer. What's the difference? Each of them has no more than a dozen of real masterpieces. Everything else - it is "a work for food". And as our perception of their work - it is case of authority in the context of established paradigms.

  • @veleglas Well, if you want to put it in these terms, Mozart's "Foodwerke" is a thousand and one times better than Salieri's. Let's put it in another way... I can take 20 of Salieri's pieces and put them next to 20 of Mozart's "worst" pieces and Mozart still comes out looking like a genius. Veleglas, some day you're just going to have to stop making excuses for Salieri and realize that some composers actually deserve the term "mediocre."

  • @Sviolinist well personally, i dont think anyone should judge either mozart or salieri's compositions until they can prove themselves to be capable of producing music even close in quality. There is nothing mediocre about salieri, or mozart, one just happen to get luckier with people remembering his name.

  • @Sviolinist It is not obvious, because unprovable. Unequal forces, and not because Salieri's "mediocrity", but because of Mozart - two hundred years of worship and perfected thousands of interpretations of his music. At the time, as Salieri is just beginning to be studied. Variants of his works - units.However, this concerns not only Salieri, but all those contemporaries, which dipped to highlight Mozart. But soon maybe it becomes clear who is actually a "genius" and who - "mediocrity."

  • @veleglas Listen to this piece at around 1 minute. Listen to what happens after this point. It doesn't develop as it should. The mathematics of Salieri's composition are not correct. If you don't understand what this means then you are not a composer, but just someone who spouts opinions.

  • @Romeniawe then...the film AMADEUS is wong ?

  • He was a good man that produced good music, but lets face it Mozart was better

  • I think his music is greatly underrated. And that movie is incredibly good....you must be prefer movies like Avatar.

  • @VAFranky The movie "Amadeus" is a stupid and not real story! Salieri was a good musican, and expecially a great teacher of music, more than a composer! His greatest students were Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Czerny and Hummel! They love his teacher!

  • @domenicodimemmo Yeah I know that it was greatly exaggerated and fictionalized. I think we should really appreciate a movie that features such amazing music though. Especially when you take into consideration all of the garbage that is being produced today. It was true however that Salieri did his best to prevent Mozart's plays from having venues and long runs through his great influence. Though I seriously doubt this was due to the fact that he felt vastly inferior to Mozart.

  • @VAFranky

    Throw the movie away, listen to the music.

  • @VAFranky What was his motivation then? He obviously must have had some type of strong conviction in beliefs for his actions to thwart Mozart.

  • @VAFranky He was agitated at Mozart, but he only used his influence to stop Mozart's Italian Operas (since Salieri was the director of Italian Operas) Otherwise they had no real qualms. Salieri was actually one of the close circle of mourners present at Mozart's funeral. The play really exaggerates rumors, but it makes for interesting entertainment! lol

  • @domenicodimemmo I agree that movie was stupid, however it brought Mozart's music into the public arena really for the first time. I must say Salierie's works are really pleasant to listen to, marvellous pieces really. He must have had some appreciable influence on Mozart....or was it the other way round?

  • @domenicodimemmo Oh yes, because if a story isn't true, it's not worth telling, is it? Moron... The movie was a testament to the beauty of Mozart's music, and what better time to take artistic license than in the telling of the life of an artist.

  • @domenicodimemmo Salieri was shown as a good musician and a responsible man (aka showing he was a great teacher) Having a student isn't impressive since as we all know he, like mozart, was just a natural genius. Amadeus isn't a stupid movie because of the story not being true since, Milos Forman does not claim it to be exact. Watch the movie for its beauty and the acting not the facts, since when is film ever accurate? :-)

  • @domenicodimemmo Who says that Amadeus is based on a real story? It's just only one of many versions of Mozart's story.

  • @domenicodimemmo You're right about Salieri, but "Amadeus" was a great movie! It had lots of Mozart's best songs. Even though it wasn't a true story, it was meant to be entertaining and has won many awards.

  • @domenicodimemmo Just because the movie is a work of fiction doesn't mean it's stupid. I think the Academy Awards it received speak for that.

  • @domenicodimemmo everybody knows "Amadeus" was a fictional movie not a biographical film... jerk.

  • Ugly movies...

  • Very soothing, opens the senses and feelings. Gives you freedom !

  • Well, although many deem his music 'mediocre', I think the longevity and the fact that were are all sitting at a computer listening to this, is testamont to the fact that this is most certainly not mediocre.

  • @pianor91 i think the only reason many of the people clicked on this is because of his known relationship with Mozart and the circumstances surrounding this relationship, in the manner in which they were portrayed in the 80's movie...obviously exaggerated as they were

  • @slovakmath This is most probably, if not sadly, true. However, I listen to Salieri for enjoyment, not out of curiosity. I'd also like to think that people whose opinions are formed through '80's films are not exactly classical experts of enthusiasts. I live in hope...

  • @pianor91 indeed

  • @pianor91

    That's not a testiment to anything.

    It's possible to resurrect and post anything. Doesn't mean it's good.

    Salieri's music wasn't given a fair airing in the film. I think he's done some listenable stuff. But the movie is the main reason that it's gotten attention.

  • @Hzqi

    ***TestAment.

  • I think it's great music.

  • @GuqinZheng I got a degree in music in 1984. I'd never heard of Salieri until the movie.

  • @dsrtflwr

    I bet you regret it everyday.

  • @BELACSAMOHT Why would I regret it?

  • @dsrtflwr

    You wasted your time and money.

  • @BELACSAMOHT How did I waste my time and money?

  • @dsrtflwr you'll regret it

  • Why would I regret it? 

  • I like to listen to this song while I shit marble.

  • @TheWhiteStripes3 Try putting more fiber in your diet. If that doesn't work, maybe you should listen to "Pooh - lenc"... ;|

  • How can you speak about composers and not listen to their music?

    I don't really care whose the best Mozart or Salieri. They both wrote

    some amazing songs. Mozart might be more explicit on the other

    hand i find this song quite entertaining. Especially the beginning.

  • סליירי השולט אני בן משםחה שלו ישששש

  • I like this piece.

  • Some composers are great, some are not, but maybe some others are unique. There is no reason to compare all the composers to Mozart. He is undoubtedly amazing, but that does not prove that all other musicians are trivial.

  • I still prefer Mozart -- except of course when his music had too many notes. If he had just cut a few now & then it would have been perfect.

  • @Bemused46 One can only take so many notes in a night XD

  • @Bemused46

    Which few did you have in mind?

  • @Bemused46 hahahah you say like emperor of Austria :)))

  • The part that starts at 1:00 seems familiar...was it ever in Looney-Tunes? Maybe it just sounds like something else, but it's driving me crazy.

  • Why is it that people still think "Amadeus" was what really happened? In reality both Mozart and Salieri had respect for each other and Salieri even gave lessons to one of Mozart's sons. One could argue Salieri's life was far more successful, he lived more than twice as long as Mozart, lived a life of "luxury" and never was short on money. Married with children too. It is highly doubtful he ever held a grudge against Mozart.

  • @McLarenMercedes THANK U!!! finally some 1 said it. People buy into a hollywood made reality when they can just look up the facts and see there was very little 2 rivalry between them AND salieri even after his writing career was done was still one of the most sought after teachers in all of vienna and italy. Both were amazing.

  • salieri

    pure genius

    i dont think they can be considered the same level he and mozart

    but just because of mozarts superior skill doesn't mean that everyother composer is useless

  • Salieri was not mediocre. he was highly regarded in Vienna, though his music faded after his death. Amadeus is a HIGHLY fictional movie. His pupils included Lizst, and Beethoven, both of whom were as gifted musicians as Mozart. He may not have written the great operas that Mozart did, but his symphony here is very nice. I doubt he had an inferiority complex

  • @pianogooroo

    So you right. He was a great composer in Vienna and that his music died with him. Amadeus is not so fiction is contained in the biography of these men, and the rivalry? So here you are once again right.

  • Genius!

    Salieri was the creator of the beautiful opera music! For me, Salieri and Mozart are on the same level, both created music that will last forever.

  • @HauntyStarchild I just finished watching Amadeus for the 4th time now:D, and I was watching this video, thinking the exact same thing:D good point!

  • @kreezt Yes, but Mozart still gets many more hits. Salieri just can't win! (I just bought the Amadeus DVD & finished watching it last night. Looking forward to the commentary.)

  • @Bemused46 the film is about the frustration of mediocrity that consumes all artists. only a few are great and remain in our collective memory. the rest, unfortunately, just disappear. just think about how many musicians were there in vienna when mozart lived. dozens, for sure. it's only natural that we tend to take sides with salieri, that's what forman intended with his film. in order to understand his frustration, we had to like him and take his side first.

  • @HauntyStarchild  yeah but fucked pissed at the 30,000,000 veiws mozart has lol

  • @HauntyStarchild ha ha ha I am sure he woud be :)

  • Salieri looked very depressed in the paintings. His music is still cool though. It sounded like it was in the transition from Baroque to Classical Music.

  • Master Salieri, you work won't be forgotten

  • but it wasn't stewie who was laughing at him IT WAS GOD

  • there is indeed difference of creativity level between Mozart and Salieri.

  • se la discutia cabron este señor, mis respetos

  • as mozart said:"it's an artistic challenge to play salieri", lol (in the movie "amadeus").

  • youre good composer, Salieri

  • it's funny how he was one of the most famous composers in his time... these days he takes a nice backseat to everyone else. 

  • SALIERI-----simple the best.

  • 1:02 damnn this lefts me sky high, forget about all the arguing of whos better than who just listen up to the beautiful piece and thank god that such great music still exists.

  • The film Amadeus is just a fictional interpretation. I think in his time Salieri was more famous ( Not to sure if source is accurate though). I also really enjoy his opera's.

  • @Skar200 of course salieri was famous, but these days he has been forgotten.

  • So I think..

    Salieri was a great composer, too :D

  • beautiful.... love it........

  • un peu de douceur......dans un monde de brutes.....

  • salieri was no lesser than mozart......in fact he was far better than mozart at opera

    .......milos forman and hollywood dont know jack about baroque

  • I love this piece!

    Its well organized and sensible, two qualities I love seeing in music.