[C19fan]

Poor Salieri. His pupils is a whos/whos of Classical and Romantic music.

[Dr. Sivana]

Now the recent discovery in a Czech museum of a new song written collaboratively by Mozart and Salieri may silence the rumor-mill for good after 225 years.

New song? New old stock, at most.

[Trumpinator]

Was this rumor about Salieri contemporary with the era of Mozart? I am pretty sure this conspiracy theory never existed until the play/movie (I forget which came first) was written.

[Yaelle]

The song is called “If I Did It” by Herr OJ Salieri.

[IronJack]

Absolutely ridiculous. Salieri was a notable composer in his own right, while Mozart's reputation as a genius was largely the result of his being a child prodigy. His work, while brilliant and prolific, is occasionally repetitive and uninspired. Salieri had no reason to be jealous of Mozart, much less to murder him.

The rascally gadabout portrayed in "Amadeus" is complete and utter fiction. The movie is less a biography about Mozart than it is an object lesson in the conflict between excellence and average. Milos Forman and Peter Shaffer did the music world a disservice when they chose to play that lesson out against a backdrop of classical music.

[BigEdLB]

Predating the "Barney Song"

I hate you,
you hate me
Here is some arsenic for your tea....

[PIF]

"It's a joint composition by Mozart and Salieri ... a really valuable work ... long thought to have been lost," Czech National Museum spokeswoman Sarka Dockalova told the AFP.

The song is called "Per la Ricuperata Salute di Ofelia," which translates to "For the recovered health of Ophelia".

Rumors of Salieri's involvement in Mozart's death began almost immediately after Mozart's passing on December 5, 1791 just shy of his 36th birthday.

In 2001, Dr. Jan V. Hirschmann, an infectious disease specialist, reviewed childhood accounts and letters from Mozart to his wife and others placed the blame for his death on trichinosis from eating undercooked pork.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/17/does-a-song-prove-that-salieri-didn-t-kill-mozart.html

[PGR88]

The discovered piece was entitled: “Why I Didn’t Kill That Bastard Mozart” in A minor.

You can’t get any better evidence than that.

[Rockingham]

The premise of Amadeus -- that a jealous Salieri killed the superbly talented Mozart -- was roundly rejected by scholars when the movie came out. It made for an entertaining story though and helped generate a wave of interest in classical music.

[Mears]

Poor Salieri lived too long.(From movie).

He didn’t benefit from the perqs of dying young.

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[nickcarraway]

I thought Ted Cruz killed Mozart?

[Albion Wilde]

later