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Amadeus

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In Sir Peter Shaffer
…stableboy’s obsession with horses, and Amadeus (1979; film 1984), about the rivalry between Mozart and his fellow composer Antonio Salieri. The film version of the latter play won eight Academy Awards, including best adapted screenplay for Shaffer. His later plays include the biblical epic Yonadab (1985), Lettice and Lovage (1987),…
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In Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mozart’s place
The 1980 play Amadeus (written by Peter Shaffer) and especially its film version of 1984 (directed by Miloš Forman), although they did much to promote interest in Mozart, reinforced certain myths—i.e., that even as an adult Mozart remained an inappropriately childish vessel for divinely inspired music and that…
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