Amadeus (film)

Amadeus is a 1984 American musical drama film directed by Miloš Forman and starring Tom Hulce and f. Murray Abraham.

The scenario of the film is based on the play Amadeus by Peter Shaffer. Shaffers piece is loosely based on the last years of the life of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The plot is a variant of Aleksandr Pushkin 's play Mozart i Salieri (Mozart and Salieri, Моцарт и Сальери, 1830), where Rimsky-Korsakov are opera Mozart i Salieri (1897, first performance 1898) on based.

Amadeus was a great success in movie theaters and brought in $ 51 million in the US alone in 1984 the film was nominated for eleven, eight of which he won Oscars, including those for Best Film , Best Directorand best screenplay (Peter Shaffer). In addition, he won more than thirty other international film awards, including four Golden Globes, four BAFTA's, three things Donatellos David Premi di and the César for best foreign film.

In 2002, the film was re-released with 20 minutes of additional footage under the title "Amadeus: The Director's Cut".



Content
[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.Amadeus is a partly fictional, partly true reflection of the life story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The composer is portrayed as an extremely unstable and vulgar super talent. Mozart behaves in the film as a pop star who has rushed into a life of sex, drugs and rock and roll. By his brilliance he arouses the jealousy of the Viennese court composer Antonio Salieri. Salieri then plays a decisive role in the end of life of Mozart. He isolates him, as much as possible of its fellow men and wife Constanze and manipulates him toward mental and physical exhaustion.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 history
 * 3.1 Peter Schaffer
 * 3.2 London and Broadway
 * Scenario 4
 * 4.1 starting point
 * 4.2 Elaboration
 * 5 Actors
 * 5.1 Salieri
 * 5.2 Mozart
 * 5.3 Constanze
 * 6 Production
 * 6.1 Locations
 * 6.2 sets and costumes
 * 6.3 John McEnroe in 1791
 * 6.4 the nipples of Venus
 * 6.5 The latest diktat
 * 7 Music
 * 7.1 Performers
 * 7.2 Compositions
 * 8 History and fiction
 * 8.1 the relationship between Mozart and Salieri
 * 8.2 Myths
 * 8.3 Errors
 * 8.4 historically correct
 * 9 the death of Mozart
 * 9.1 The masked man
 * 9.2 Sick
 * 9.3 Funeral
 * 10 Amadeus: Director's Cut
 * 11 awards and nominations
 * 11.1 Oscars
 * 11.2 Golden Globes
 * LAFCA Awards 1984 11.3
 * 11.4 BAFTA
 * 11.5 Césars
 * Sources 12
 * 13 external links

The film opens in the home of the old Antonio Salieri with the words: "Mozart! Mozart! Forgive your killer. I admit it: I killed you. " It wanted to commit suicide two servants find Salieri. Salieri is transferred to an insane asylum where a young priest him the confession is decreasing. Salieri start with a story, consisting mainly of chronological flashbacks, about his envy and discontent towards Mozart and God.

While Salieri still plays children's games, Mozart already occurs for emperors and archbishops. Salieri also wants to study music, but his father is against it. As a teenager prays Salieri to God for its dream to let go.Not much later choking his father in eating. Salieri behold this as a sign from God, decides to devout to live, start a training music and is in the Vienna court composer by Emperor Leopold II. No major composer Salieri know he is, but thanks to his prayers to God he gets the necessary inspiration to the not so musical Emperor to keep satisfied.

Mozart is engaged by Hieronymus von Colloredo, the Archbishop of Salzburg. Both travel to Vienna to give a concert. Salieri, who already had heard much about Mozart, is present. He unintentionally spies on a young woman and man whom he describes as the most vulgar and rude person he has ever seen. Salieri is surprised when it turns out that this is Mozart. Mozart arrives late again on his own concert not long after he is fired by the Archbishop. Salieri finds Mozart's composition beautifully and considers that the direct from lewd.

Thanks to Salieri is Mozart invited to Emperor Leopold II. Salieri prays to God for a good welcome to compose mars. He gets inspiration and the Emperor enters the room when the mars plays Mozart. Mozart takes the score not to because the piece is already in his memory. Thereupon he plays the piece flawlessly, but begins immediately nuts to adjust and expand the piece because it is in its current form is not good. Salieri as a direct attack of God looketh on this. On question or wants to write a Mozart opera, he goes immediately. He already has an idea: the piece will take place in a Turkish harem. Although the attendees shocked, the Emperor agreement. Mozart has a high conceit, describes himself repeatedly as the best composer of all time and is clearly going to be in the foreseeable future a great fame and wealth.

Caterina Cavalieri, a student of Salieri, Mozart would come into contact with through him. Salieri, despite his devout life yet in love with Caterina, recommend this off: Mozart is a vulgar man and the piece is about a brothel. Caterina is shocked. To the surprise of Salieri, she has a starring role in this opera. When Constanze Mozart presents himself as fiance is clear that he is having an affair with Caterina. Although the opera is a success, it goes with Mozart financial bad. As a result, his hoogheids madness he refuses to teach pupils, he far above his stand is alive, more and more debt builds up, etc..

When the Emperor once again an appointment does, all composers to deliver some of their works in. Mozart is not on in and says this is unnecessary work since he still is the best. Without his knowing and from financial necessity, few Salieri Constance delivers work on. Salieri is surprised when it turns out that the originals contain no correction. This makes his displeasure even bigger: God uses a childlike, vulgar man as his channel to perfect to make music, and let the devout Salieri left lying. Salieri would not return the compositions.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Mozart's father, Leopold, is suddenly at the door. Mozart are silent about the pitiful situation and invites him to go to a in case. There asks Salieri, incognito, to Mozart to a certain point to play in the style of Salieri.Mozart plays the point to extremely harsh and caricatured. Salieri concludes that God's laughing at him directly via Mozart. Salieri will take revenge on God by "his most beloved" as much as possible, to work against. Not much later is true a maid in to Mozart. They do and is paid by the household comes a big admirer of Mozart, who wants to remain anonymous. Not cease to be Salieri that Mozart so forbidden play "the marriage of Figaro" into an opera. The Emperor calls Mozart on the mat. To the displeasure of the Emperor still can convince Mozart and Salieri is the ban lifted.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">When the Bandmaster learns that Mozart used in his opera, a ballet he rips the music from the musical score: ballet has been banned by the emperor. Mozart or Salieri he asks to the Emperor wants to ask for to lift the ban. Although Salieri promises to do so, it shall inform the Emperor did not in. During a rehearsal of the scene, without music, the Emperor suddenly look. He wants to see the original scene and therefore raises the ballet-banning.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the death of Leopold Mozart's music is bleaker and bleaker leading to the dark opera "Don Giovanni". Here, Salieri an insanely idea to deal with Mozart and God. According to Salieri is a reflection of the dark main character Leopold, a man of whom Mozart had in reality horror. Salieri hires the costume that Leopold wore in case on the earlier, correct as to Mozart and asks him "to write a requiem for a deceased man who such composition belonged, but it still hasn't gotten". Mozart looketh on the appearance as the reincarnation of his father who comes to claim his requim. For fear shall accept the assignment. In reality wants to get hold of Salieri in an unprecedented masterpiece of Mozart. Once in possession, he does not know how he would like to kill all Mozart. Then he copies the piece in his own handwriting and put his name on. so will God during the funeral of Mozart a requiem which get everyone will believe it of Salieri is. This allows Salieri God laugh at twice.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Some time later visit Mozart a vaudeville theatre. At the request of the operator start Mozart to "the magic flute". When Salieri learns this, he once again dressed to Mozart and demands that the requiem is finished as soon as possible. Constanze believes that the dressed man is crazy and that Mozart there no further attention to should donate. The exuberant life of Constanze Mozart leads eventually leaving him and takes their son Carl .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Mozart works "the magic flute", but is completely exhausted. During the show he collapses completely. Salieri brings him home. When not much later the owner of the theater, brings his allowance this gives Salieri to Mozart Mozart as if it is an advance for the requiem. Salieri makes Mozart also wise that the anonymous man gives 100 Florins again if the piece is by the next evening. Mozart therefore proposes that Salieri the music notes on his instructions. Mozart indicates Salieri admits that he has never fully trusted him so far and asks Salieri forgiveness.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Meanwhile, Constanze Mozart's come to the conclusion that they are too much and she returns. She finds a sleeping Mozart and Salieri. When Constanze is the score of the requiem, she notes that this is not the handwriting of her husband. This recognizes that, on instructions from Mozart, Salieri, he has put the notes. Constanze decided that one should stop immediately the composition and put the piece on under lock and key. Thereupon Mozart dies. He is buried in a mass grave.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Despite Salieri thought to have a good plan, God has him once again humbled by Constanze to send it back. The requiem will never come and will remain in possession of Mozart. Also the question of Mozart's forgiveness continues to haunt him whereby Salieri 32 years later also asks forgiveness and tries to commit suicide. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==For History<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.===Peter Schaffer<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the huge success of his play Equus (1973) about a boy who made blind six horses stables, playwright Peter Schaffer came with a new piece of Amadeus. Just like "Equus" was also "Amadeus" based on real events, plot and cut. Starting point for Amadeus were the last years of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Around the death of Mozart, who died in 1791 when he was only 35 years old, have always circulated rumors. One of those rumors was that Mozart was poisoned by his envious colleague Antonio Salieri. As early as 1830 Aleksandr Pushkin wrote the play Mozart i Salieri (Mozart and Salieri, Моцарт и Сальери) in which the alleged poisoning plot by Salieri is used. In 1897 Rimsky-Korsakov based his opera Mozart i Salieri (performed in 1898) on the rumors and the play of Pushkin. Salieri poisons Mozart out of jealousy In Pushkin's original version. Salieri wonders where the righteousness of God is granted to such a frivolous man as genius as Mozart. Or Salieri poisoned Mozart has doubted by historians is very real. ===London and Broadway<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The play "Amadeus" was first performed on november 2, 1979 in National Theatre in London. Paul Scofield played Salieri, Simon Collow Constanze Mozart and Felicity Kendall . It was a great success and on 17 december 1980 was the premiere at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway with Ian Kellen as Tim Curry as Mozart and Salieri, Jane Seymour as Constanze. The original production was also a success, was awarded a Tony Award and took out 1181 performances. A film adaptation could not lack and the Director would be done by Miloš Forman, known, among other things, One Flew Over the cuckoo's Nest and Hair. Forman was at the premiere in London attended and knew that he wanted to film the play right. ==Scenario<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.===Starting Point<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Peter Schaffer would itself write the scenario for Amadeus . He worked closely with Director Miloš Forman. After Schaffer had heard that Forman would directing he had asked what the Director intended. Forman replied that a movie based on a play, actually is a new creation. It is a new creation based on the same inspiration that the play had come to life. The screenwriter for the film scenario had to go back to its starting point and look at the different possibilities to reach the same emotions and end result. It had to Director and writer according to Forman work closely together. ===Elaboration<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The creative process took four months to complete. Schaffer and Forman maintained the original story and the structure of the piece (that consists of a long flashback after the suicide attempt of Salieri and his confession), but otherwise was a lot has changed. This was motivated because the play "Amadeus" was really a play with all Theatre techniques of serve. For the film chose Forman and Schaffer for a more realistic setting with plenty of outdoor shots. Characters were also added as the priest (that the confession of Salieri decreases), the Archbishop, and the father-in-law of Mozart. The character of Mozart was further developed and extended, in addition also are the monologues of Salieri rewritten and more visually worked out. The character of the servant girl Lori became more extensive, while also the character of Leopold Mozart what was put on stronger, particularly in his opposition to the marriage to Constanze. ==Actors<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Salieri<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During auditions for the movie did actor f. Murray Abraham audition for the small role of count Orsini-Rosenberg. Director Miloš Forman was impressed and asked him to carry the text of Salieri for suddenly. This sounded so good that Forman already more or less decided to the actor to choose. But Abraham was also doing the shoot of the film Scarface (1983). To his colleague Brian DePalma, waited not for Forman had completed the recordings for this film until Abraham and offered him when the role of Salieri to. ===Mozart<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The most coveted role was that of Mozart. Both Simon Callow, who had played this role on stage in London, and Tim Curry, who had done the same on Broadway, did audition. They were both rejected. Callow did get the role of Emanuel Schikaneder. A still very young Kenneth Branagh auditioned, as well as Mick Jagger, Mark Hamill and Sam Waterston. The role eventually went to Tom Hulce, best known for his role as Pinto in Animal House from 1978. ===Constanze<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For the role of Mozart's wife, Constanze, Elizabeth McGovern was tested, but they eventually lost by Meg Tilly. However, in Prague before the recordings could begin to Tilly, ripped them on the day of the first shots during a game of football a muscle in her leg. She was head over heels replaced for Elizabeth Berridge. ==Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.===Locations<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For the outside shots week Forman from Pragueto his former home. Forman who was born in 1932 in Czecho-Slovakia was in 1968 after the Prague Spring and exiled from his country to the us left. Prague, which communist era in 1983, appeared by an absence of illuminated signs and tv antennas more on the Vienna of the late eighteenth century than the Austrian capital itself. It was also filmed in Prague except in Kroměříž and yet still in Vienna. Some theatres in Prague were practically unchanged since the days of Mozart. The recordings that Forman made a number of Mozart's operas were made in the Count Nostitz Theatre in Prague. Two centuries before that Mozart himself conducted the performances of "Don Giovanni" and "La Clemenza di Tito" in this theatre. Other scenes were included in the Barrandov Studios. Here were the hospital room by Salieri, Mozart's apartment, a staircase and the theatre where "the magic flute" is performed, reconstructed. ===Sets and costumes<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was shot with natural light. Stuck for some shots the camera assistants the Windows off with tracing paper to get the correct diffused light effect. All the music was pre-recorded and was played back during the shooting. This brought the actors not only in the right mood, but also ensured that all music is synchronous with the movements (such as playing the piano or singing an aria). All sets and costumes that were used in the recording of the opera fragments were based on the original costume designs of 200 years ago. ===John McEnroe in 1791<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Tom Hulce was preparing intensively for the role of Mozart. He practiced four hours a day on the piano to the fingering on the instrument to bring about as realistic as possible. He managed this so well that the film later was praised by music experts who found that the fingerings and the notes to hear nowhere differ. In order to depict the behavior of Mozart left Hulce was inspired by the American tennis player John McEnroe.McEnroe stood in the tennis world known for his erratic behavior and mood swings. He burst out regularly in tantrums, especially decisions of the dividing and line judges. ===The nipples of Venus<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the shots of the scene where Constanze at Salieri knocks to show the work of her husband, she gets a treat offered by Salieri is being touted as the ' nipples or Venus ' (the nipples of Venus). As f. Murray Abraham in his role as Salieri in the Mozart's work and goes all the way there, savours actress Elizabeth Berridge as Constanze more and more of the sweets. The sweets that was used for the shots consisted of big chunks of sweet marzipan. The idea was that Berridge the chunks between shots by would spit out, but that no one had said to her. Eventually, she was sick to death of the stuff. ===The last lecture notes<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">One of the most impressive scenes of the film is ' Confutatisdictaat '. A critically ill Mozart dictates music is bed and Salieri for this portion of the Requiem. Salieri and Mozart can not follow regularly calls in desperation from that Mozart too fast. That is, however, not be put off and calls regularly: "Do you have it?" ("You have it written down?"). To the confusion of Salieri to show well, struck regularly sentences from the scenario about Hulce. Actor f. Murray Abraham got indeed in confusion and that is clearly visible in the film. At the beginning of the recordings of this scene there was also confusion at Tom Hulce. Both actors were equipped with small AM stations with a small free earphone. The musical director John Strauss gave instructions via these devices. At one point a Tom Hulce missed clues and did not respond to the question, "A minor?" by f. Murray Abraham. Director Forman held this in the film because it reflects how Mozart is sick. ==Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Performers<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="124" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Most of the music that can be heard in the film is by Mozart and is performed by the following orchestras and choirs:
 * F. Murray Abraham: Antonio Salieri
 * Tom Hulce: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Elizabeth Berridge: Constanze Mozart
 * Roy Dotrice: Leopold Mozart
 * Simon Callow: Emanuel Schikaneder
 * Christine Ebersole: Katerina Cavalieri
 * Jeffrey Jones: Emperor Joseph II
 * Charles Kay: count Orsini-Rosenberg
 * Michael Kenneth McMillan: Schlumberg
 * Lang Bartlett: Papagena
 * Barbara Bryne: frau Weber
 * Roderick Cook: Count von Strack
 * Milan Demjanenko: Karl Mozart
 * Cynthia Nixon: Lorl

===Compositions<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="38" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">These compositions are told:
 * Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner
 * Academy of St Martin In The Fields Chorus, led by Laszlo Heltay
 * Ambrosian Opera Chorus, led by John McCarthy
 * The Choristers of Westminster Abbey, directed by Simon Preston

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Conducted by The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Parts of the opera to hear and are sung by: Samuel Ramey (Figaro), Felicity Lott (Countess), Richard Stilwell (Almaviva), Isobel Buchanan (Susanna), Anne Howells (Cherubino), Deborah Rees (Barbarina), Alexander Oliver (Basilio), Robin Leggate (Don Curzio), John Tomlinson (Dr. Bartolo) and Willard White (Antonio)
 * Le Nozze di Figaro K. 492 "(1786) (music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Conducted by The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Parts of the opera to hear and are sung by: Richard Stilwell (Don Giovanni), John Tomlinson (Commendatore) and Willard White (Leporello)
 * "Don Giovanni, k. 527" (1787) (music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Conducted by The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Parts of the opera to hear and are sung by: June Anderson (Queen of the night), Brian Kay (Papageno) and Gillian Fisher (Papagena)
 * RH d'Ormus Axur, Re "Antonio Salieri music, libretto: 1788) Lorenzo da Ponte. Conducted by The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Final sung by Suzanne Murphy (Cavalieri).
 * "Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384" (1782) (music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto: Christoph Friedrich Bretzner conducted by The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Parts of the opera to hear, sung by: Suzanne Murphy (Constanza).
 * "The magic flute, k. 620" (1791) (music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto: Emanuel Schikaneder).

<p lang="en" len="31" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Sung by: Michele Esposito
 * "Concerto for Piano in e flat major, KV 482 (1782-86) (music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) conducted by The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Piano: Ivan Moravec
 * "Concerto for Piano in d minor, k. 466" (1782-86) (music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) conducted by The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Piano: Imogen Cooper
 * "Concerto for Piano No. 20 in d minor, k. 466, part two" (1782-86) (music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) conducted by The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
 * "Symphony in g minor (No. 25) KV 183, first part "(1773) (music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) conducted by The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
 * "Lacrimosa" from the Requiem KV 626 in D "(music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) conducted by The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
 * "Klavierstück in F major, k. 33B" (music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * "Caro mio ben" (music: Giuseppe Giordani) conducted by The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.

==History and fiction<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===The relationship between Mozart and Salieri<span class="mw-editsection" len="360" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Peter Schaffer used for his play and scenario more than one person who really have existed. But he put his hand to the reality. For example, it is not true that Mozart and Salieri got so bad. Of course there was between the two composers talk of rivalry and jealousy, but Salieri was certainly not the evil genius behind Mozart's downfall and death. Music historians even speak of a common respect for each other. For example, Salieri was the teacher of some time, the son of Franz Xavier Mozart. Salieri was also present at the funeral of Mozart and was very excited about the rumors that he would have poisoned Mozart. ===Myths<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Journalist and musician David Cairns, an expert in the field of Mozart's operas, is called Amadeus a collection of myths around Mozart. So stresses the maladjusted behavior according to Schaffer Cairns of Mozart.According to Cairns was the composer in really much less coarse in the mouth, alcoholic and focused on excreta like in the movie and the play. But he was also not the composer who composed all in his head and then without erasures wrote down. Also the chuckle that Tom Hulce as Mozart is heard is unfounded. There would be letters existence of contemporaries of the composer in which Mozart's chuckle is described and that sounded like metal that about glass is scraped. But these letters do not seem really to exist. ===Errors<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="44" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film contains a number of historical errors:
 * "Adagio and Rondo for glass harmonica, flute, Oboe, Viola and cello, KV 617" (1791) (music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart). Soloist: Thomas Bloch

===Historically correct<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="60" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In some aspects the movie is historically very correct:
 * In the scene in which Mozart at the request of his followers music of other composers He ridicules, someone calls or the music of Christoph Willibald Gluck would parody. This calls Mozart: "Boring!" (boring) and on hearing the name of Georg Friedrich Händel he says: "I don't like him (there I don't like). In the Gluck and Handel really were two of the Favorites of Mozart. In the same scene asks Schikaneder to to play in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach. The public have to laugh and seems familiar with the work of Bach. Although Mozart himself through his friendship with the son of Bach was familiar with the work of this composer, Bach himself was totally unknown in the Vienna of 1785. Only forty years after the death of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Mozart would work by Bach in Vienna on the map again.
 * In the film he is Mozart right, in reality it was left.
 * In the scene of the magic flute Mozart a celesta, a chime plays with keyboard, but the celesta was only invented in 1886.
 * According to the film Mozart had only one son. In reality, he had six children, though four already died during their first or second year of life.

==The death of Mozart<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===The masked man<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the film it is suggested that Salieri Mozart wants to kill. But first compose a requiem Mozart anonymously that Salieri then will put his name on. If he killed Mozart, Salieri, will the so-called by him composed requiem for his diepbetreurde colleague carried out. Prominently in the film is that Salieri Mozart visit several times with a mask on and gives command to compose the mass for the dead. Mozart is convinced that the masked visitor announces his own death. This is another one of the myths around the death of the composer. In reality it was the masked visitor an intermediary. He worked for the eccentric count Franz von Walsegg. This nobleman bought often work of composers that anonymous was provided and that by Von Walsegg was put on its own name. Salieri here had nothing to do with it. Moreover, Mozart thought in times of depression that he was working on his own requiem, and he even said once that he thought he was poisoned. Mozart was already seriously ill. However, he has not called him as the person who poisoned Salieri. ===Sick<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1791 Mozart was seriously ill. He had poor health and his entire life he suffered chicken pox, bronchitis, pneumonia, fevers, rheumatism and was suffering from inflamed gums. During conducting of La Clemenza di Tito, his last opera, he fell faint. Not as in the film is suggested at the premiere of the magic flute. Constanze Mozart became very depressed and convinced him to stop with the Requiem for Von Walsegg. It's not like in the film that Constanze work from Mozart's hands jerks and wegsluit. Mozart had to keep the bed only on 20 november (well after the 30 september that the film seems to suggest, "the magic flute" then went in Premiere) and he was surrounded by his concerned wife, mother-in-law and pupils. It was certainly not the case that after the premiere of the magic flute Mozart fell ill brought home by Salieri. He certainly not dictated to Salieri also parts of Requiem. It is even the question or he dictated to his pupil Süssmayr parts. Though sang Mozart on the night of his death along with some friends share from the Requiem. ===Funeral<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">It is still unknown which Mozart died. It was in any case no gif and almost certainly was no unnatural death. He did not die in the company of a dormant Salieri as suggested in the film. He was surrounded by his family and friends. The funeral was arranged by Mozart's patron, Baron Gottfried van Swieten. It is not true as shown in the film is that Mozart was dumped in a mass grave during a violent storm. He got an ordinary grave and was buried according to the normal rules of the Viennese funeral law. The stormed or rained not, the weather was normal. Süssmayr, Van Swieten and two other Salieri and musicians were present. ==Amadeus: Director's Cut<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the premiere the film Amadeus had a length of 161 minutes. In 2002 it was re-released with Amadeus 20 minutes more to film material, with the most important:
 * In the scene in which Mozart is presented to the Emperor, he is greeted with a welcome March that Salieri has written. Mozart then plays the March after and improves him. The enhanced mars is "Non Piu Andrai Farfallone Amoroso," from Le Nozze di Figaro.
 * In the scene in which the Emperor Mozart congratulates with the opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail Mozart asks what the good man thought of it. The last answer that the opera contains too many nuts. This has indeed the Emperor said.

==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Oscars<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="11" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nominations:
 * After the opera scene with Caterina there is an extra scene where Salieri backstage his congratulations indicates Mozart and Caterina. Caterina Constanze Mozart complains that he probably just choose because they may be better in bed is. Salieri is shocked because "his sweetheart" has had sexual intercourse with Mozart and perhaps through that way got the role.
 * When Constanze the scores to Salieri with the ask for these in supply for the tender, says he wants to do that just in Exchange that Salieri for sex. To his surprise, Constanze comes back the next day and undresses. Salieri to let her out a Messenger calls. Constanze throws a candlestick against a door. In the next scene she is crying in bed and she says to Mozart that she only loves him.
 * In an extra scene is mentioned that many of his female pupils Mozart loses because he can't keep his hands at home.
 * An extra scene where Mozart teaches to a new student. The lesson at their parents live with their dogs. When Mozart something on the piano plays, the dogs begin to bark. Mozart stops the les because the father more inside with the welfare of the dog than that of their daughter. Thereupon he leaves the House and takes another bottle of wine with it. A lot further in the film Mozart returns drunk back asking if he can get a loan may still view or les, which is denied.
 * Best film (Saul Zaentz)
 * Best Director (Miloš Forman)
 * Best actor (f. Murray Abraham)
 * Best screenplay based on existing material (Peter Shaffer)
 * Best set design (Karel Černý and Patrizia von Brandenstein)
 * Best costume design (Theodor Pištěk)
 * Best makeup (Dick Smith and Paul LeBlanc)
 * Best sound (Mark Berger, Thomas Scott, Todd Boekel heide and Christopher Newman)

===Golden Globes<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="11" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nominations:
 * Best actor (Tom Hulce)
 * Best cinematography (Miroslav Ondříček)
 * Best editing (Nena Danevic and Michael Chandler)
 * Best actor-(f. Murray Abraham)
 * Best Director (Miloš Forman)
 * Best film (Saul Zaentz)
 * Best screenplay (Peter Shaffer)

===LAFCA Awards 1984<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===BAFTA<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="195" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nominations: best actor (f. Murray Abraham) best costume design (Theodor Pištěk) best film (Miloš Forman and Saul Zaentz) (Patrizia von Brandstein) Best decors best screenplay (Peter Shaffer) ===Césars<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="23" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Best foreign language film ==Sources<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Best Actor (Tom Hulce)
 * Best supporting actor (Jeffrey Jones)
 * Best actor (f. Murray Abraham)
 * Best Director (Miloš Forman)
 * Best film (Saul Zaentz)
 * Best screenplay (Peter Shaffer)
 * Best cinematography (Miroslav Ondříček)
 * Best editing (Nena Danevic and Michael Chandler)
 * Best makeup (Dick Smith and Paul LeBlanc)
 * Best sound (Mark Berger, Thomas Scott and Christopher Newman)
 * Kenneth Branagh, "Beginning", 1990
 * Edward Holmes, "The Life of Mozart", 2005
 * Howard Chandler Robbins Landon and, "1791: Mozart's Last Year"
 * Ray Morton, "Music on Film: Amadeus"
 * Jurgen Müller, "Best movies of the 80 's, 2005
 * Thomas j. Slater, "Milos Forman: A bio-bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts, no. 1)" 1997