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 Antonio Salieri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antonio Salieri (August 18, 1750 – May 7, 1825), born in Legnago, Italy, was a composer and conductor, as well as one of the most important and famous musicians of his time.
Salieri was buried in the Matzleinsdorfer Friedhof (his remains were later transferred to the Zentralfriedhof) in Vienna, Austria.
Salieri and Mozart even composed a song for voice and piano together, called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia, which was celebrating the happy return to stage of the famous singer Nancy Storace.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Antonio Salieri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For example, when Salieri was appointed Kapellmeister in 1788, he revived Figaro instead of bringing out a new opera of his own, and when he went to the coronation festivities for Leopold II in 1790 he had no less than three Mozart masses in his luggage.
Salieri and Mozart even composed a song for voice and piano together, called Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia, which was celebrating the happy return to stage of the famous singer Nancy Storace.
Proponents of the theory that Salieri plotted against Mozart point to a suicide attempt of Salieri in 1823, claiming that it was due to the old composer's guilt over his anti-Mozart activities.
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 HOASM: Antonio Salieri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Salieri studied violin and harpsichord with his brother Francesco, and violin with the Legnago organist Giuseppe Simonie.
After Gassmann's death in 1774, Salieri became court composer and conductor of the Italian opera; in 1788 he succeeded Giuseppe Bonno as court Kapellmeister.
Salieri's posthumous reputation has suffered from the unsupported charge that he felt animosity toward Mozart; there is no foundation for the rumor that he poisoned the younger composer.
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 Amadeus [Immortal] : The People : Salieri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Antonio Salieri is perhaps one of the most misunderstood men in music history.
Antonio was one of the "new school" opera composers and helped forge a new path for others to follow.
Salieri died rather delirious in Vienna in 1825 at the age of seventy-five.
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 Antonio Salieri
Salieri lived on friendly terms with Joseph Haydn, but was a rival to Mozart, whose death he was suspected of having produced by poison; but no evidence was ever forthcoming to give color to the accusation.
Salieri retired from office on his full salary in 1824, and died at Vienna on the 7th of May 1825.
Salieri gave lessons in composition to Luigi Cherubini and to Ludwig van Beethoven, who dedicated to him his "Three Sonatas for Pianoforte and Violin", Op.
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 Michael Haydn - Antonio Salieri
Antonio was born on August 18th 1750 in the Italian town of Legnano in the Republic of Venice.
Salieri was among the leading opera composers of his age.
Salieri died on an asylum in Vienna on May 7th 1825.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Salieri, Antonio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
SALIERI, ANTONIO [Salieri, Antonio], 1750-1825, Italian composer and conductor.
Though Mozart's claim was never substantiated, an opera by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Mozart et Salieri (1898) and a play by Peter Shaffer, Amadeus (1979; filmed 1984) have depicted Salieri as treacherously jealous of Mozart's genius.
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 Antonio Salieri - Classical music composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Salieri was born on August 18, 1750 in Legnago, Italy.
Also mentioned in his early years, he was one of the "new school" of opera composing, and forged a new path for others to follow, indeed Mozart was one of the composers who had to "follow in his footsteps" when it came to such things.
Salieri had seven children, was a close friend of Gassmann, and Gluck, was a man who suported the arts, the church, and had many students among which were Liszt, Beethoven, and others.
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 Amadeus (1984)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As the court composer of the Emperor of Austria, all Salieri desires are fame and recognition as a composer; it is all he had wanted his whole life.
However, when Salieri learns that Mozart is a young, crude, and unrefined young man, endowed with all the talent and ability that he ever wanted and strived for, it plants a seed of jealousy that soon grows into bitter resentment and hatred, not only for Mozart, but also towards God.
Salieri's desire to get rid of him is seemingly boundless as he plots and schemes for Mozart's demise.
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 The Mozart Project: "Amadeus" and Mozart
In 1825 Salieri's two attendants attested that they had never heard such words from their charge, and a friend of Mozart's physician reported that Wolfgang had died of a fever that was epidemic at that time in Vienna.
Salieri even attended a performance of The Magic Flute on October 13, 1791, reportedly visited Mozart the day before he died, and, according to one account was a mourner at the funeral on December 6.
According to the film, the basis of Salieri's jealousy was his desire, while still a boy in Italy, to become "a great composer like Mozart." That Salieri in old age doubts his confessor's aphorism that "all men are equal in God's eyes," by comparing himself again to Mozart is a stroke of dramatic brilliance.
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 Salieri, Antonio (1750 - 1825)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Antonio Salieri occupied a position of great importance in the music of Vienna.
Salieri wrote a quantity of church music, as well as oratorios.
As well as a significant quantity of ballet music, Salieri wrote concertos, including an organ concerto and a piano concerto, a Birthday Symphony and a set of variations on La folia di Spagna, (The Folly of Spain) the dance tune used by Corelli and many other Baroque composers.
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Salieri had a great impact on the musical life of Vienna.
Salieri was a pupil of Gassmann, whom he succeeded, a friend of Gluck who was his patron, and an acquaintance of Metastasio and the young Mozart.
By 1790 Salieri had stopped his work with the Italian opera and devoted himself to teaching and other works such as oratorios, cantatas arias, vocal ensembles, and orchestral and chamber music.
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 Antonio Salieri - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Antonio Salieri (August 18, 1750 - May 7, 1825), born in Legnano, Italy, was a composer and conductor who received considerable public acclaim in his day.
After displaying exceptional musical talent as a child during his training, he was invited in 1766 to attend the court of Vienna.
Salieri is best-known for the mutual antipathy he shared with Mozart; the latter creating a public scandal in 1790s Vienna by accusing Salieri of plagiarism and of attempting to murder him with poison.
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One-act operas by Mozart and Salieri, reviewed by KELLY FERJUTZ It is entirely possible that the real rivalry at the time of Mozart and Salieri was whether Italian or German opera was the better linguistic...
Antonio Salieri isn't the bad guy who poisoned Mozart.
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 Amazon.com: Cecilia Bartoli - The Salieri Album: Music: Antonio Salieri,Adam Fishcer,Cecilia Bartoli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Salieri's music, mostly instrumental and opera, as well as sacred music for the Catholic Church, was being composed and performed at the same time as Mozart.
Salieri and Mozart were contemporary figures that generally got along very well and it's actually Mozart who should have been jealous of Salieri.
Salieri lived better than Mozart ever did and was the court composer of Vienna, while Mozart struggled with censors and patrons because he was far too independent and radical in his persona.
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Salieri composed about 40 operas some in the Italian opera seria tradition and others which are influenced by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
From 1788 - 1824 Salieri was the Court Music Director.
On his deathbed, Salieri confessed to murdering Mozart.
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 Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Rice's research in the archives of Vienna and Budapest and close study of the scores reveal Salieri to have been a prolific, versatile, and adventurous composer for the stage.
Countering the old view of Salieri as Mozart's mortal enemy with musical evidence suggesting that Mozart and Salieri learned from and respected one another, Rice argues that Salieri's operatic innovations paved the way for some of Mozart's most remarkable achievements.
A generous selection of excerpts from Salieri's works, most previously unpublished, will give readers a fuller appreciation for his musical style than was previously possible.
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It was with Salieri's music that in a very short number of years one inaugurated the Milanese theatres of La Scala (1778) and the Cannobiana (1779), not to mention the Ducal Theatre of Varese (1779).
The name of Salieri appears quite frequently in the theatre chronicles of the second half of the eighteenth century.
Composer at the Court of Vienna, Salieri was normally called upon by the Austrian power to solemnize all of the main commemorative occasions of the year with his music.
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 DVD4Music.com: DVD: Antonio SALIERI : Tarare - DVD Opera - Antonio SALIERI : Tarare
Tarare was such a great success in Paris in 1787 that Emperor Joseph II commissioned Salieri to compose an Italian version of this opera.
Salieri was hailed as the natural successor to Gluck, the main force at the opera in the third quarter of the eighteenth century, and was greatly influenced by his music.
From the cast made up of members of the Paris and Karlsruhe opera ensembles, special praise was lavished upon Eberhard Lorenz as the lively and witty chief eunuch Calpigi, and Jean-Philippe Lafont as the vocally powerful tyrant Atar.
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 Antonio Salieri - Last.fm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Salieri - Concerto for Flute and Oboe, 1st (2)
Salieri - Concerto for Violin, Cello and Oboe - I. Allegro
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 Amazon.com: Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera: Books: John A. Rice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Salieri's place in music history may have been permanently influenced by the film Amadeus, in which he is one-dimensionally portrayed as Mozart's less-talented nemesis.
The chapter "Mozart and Salieri" is a triumph of reasoned, careful research over unsupported Hollywood hype.
Antonio Salieri served a single institution, the Viennese court, throughout his career.
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 Antonio Salieri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Antonio Salieri was an Italian composer who lived mainly in Vienna and died there: Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert were amongst his pupils.
He intrigued against Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but the idea (as expressed in Rimsky-Korsakov' opera "Mozart and Salieri") that he poisoned Mozart is false.
[§] Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera by John A. Rice
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 List of compositions by Antonio Salieri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This list of compositions by Antonio Salieri is a list of the musical compositions of Antonio Salieri (August 18, 1750 – May 7, 1825), organized by genre.
Il Talismano (1779), first act by Salieri, second and third act by Giacomo Rust
"Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia" for voice and piano: jointly composition by Salieri, Mozart and Cornetti (1785) - lost -
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