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From: grass@uiucdcsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Amadeus -- the movie
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Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 10:07:00 EDT
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Amadeus is not the first play based on the theme of Salieri murdering
Mozart.  Alexander Pushkin wrote a short play about the same theme
around 1810.  I don't know if it is easily available in English, but
it is a classic of Russian literature.  

Salieri's motivation is exactly the same as in Amadeus: e.g. he works
so hard as a composer, but only gets mediocre results.  Mozart, on the other
hand, creates masterpieces without effort.  This seems a great injustice,
so... .

Pushkin manages to dispose of this theme in about 25 pages worth of
play.  I saw Amadeus on Broadway and was really impressed with it.
I am looking forward to seeing the movie (regardless of the reviews)
just to see how the story could get stretched any more.
				- Judy Grass
				  University of Illinois- Urbana