Article: Amadeus

Amadeus

THERE'S THESE two composers - one the fashionable favorite, raking in plaudits, fame and money, the other working in comparative obscurity. Ironically, the first composer's work is utterly banal while the second is a genius who will alter the course of musical history.

No, it's not the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Stephen Sondheim story; it's Amadeus, written by Peter Shaffer about composers Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and now at the Pittsburgh Public Theater.

Salieri has ever wanted only one thing - to celebrate God through music - and has smothered his suspicions that he's really a hack with the adulation he receives at the Viennese court of Emperor Joseph II. But when the ...

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