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Article: Maligned Master: The Real Story of Antonio Salieri.
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- June 1, 1994
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Since the mid-nineteenth century, Antonio Salieri's musical assessment and notoriety have been linked to that of Mozart. Even Beethoven was informed of Salieri's deathbed denials about poisoning Mozart. Peter Shaffer's popular play Amadeus (1980) only elaborated a long tradition of Salieri stories. The German musicologist Volkmar Braunbehrens seeks to "set the record straight," but he is not the first to do so. As early as 1863 the American historian Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817-1897) questioned the allegations of Salieri's treachery in a series of articles for Dwight's Journal of Music (now available as Salieri, Rival of Mozart, ed. Theodore Albrecht [Kansas City, Mo.: ...
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