Salieri, Antonio
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Salieri, Antonio (
b Legnano, 1750;
d Vienna, 1825). It. composer and conductor. Taken to Vienna 1766 as protégé of Gassmann. Début as cond. Vienna Court Opera 1770 and in next 4 years had 9 operas prod. Comp. and mus. dir. It. opera in Vienna from 1774. Back in It. 1778–80, writing comic operas for Milan, Venice, and Rome. Succeeded Gluck at Paris Opéra 1784–8. Court cond. Vienna 1788–1824 (of choral concerts only after 1790). Was hostile to Mozart, but there is no truth in legend that he poisoned him (as is depicted in Rimsky-Korsakov's
Mozart and Salieri). Taught Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt. Wrote over 40 operas, incl.
Prima la musica, poi le parole (1786),
Tarare (1787),
Axur (1788, reworking of
Tarare),
Palmira (1795), and
Falstaff (1798); 4 oratorios, much church mus., and many vocal and instr. pieces.
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Antonio Salieri, el calumniado.(TT: The slandered Antonio Salieri)
Magazine article from: Contenido; 11/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; Antonio Salieri naci en 1750 en el pobre pueblo de...1717-1780). Ese mismo ao de 1764 Antonio Salieri cumpli 14 aos, edad a la cual los...al italiano una venganza diablica: Antonio Salieri habra contratado a Mozart --quien...
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Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera. By John A. Rice...written, meticulously detailed book on Antonio Salieri's career as an opera composer finally...Beethoven's Contemporaries: II. Antonio Salieri" (Dwight's Journal of Music 23...
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Did Salieri kill Mozart? (Antonio Salieri, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...of Philadelphia, who played a piece by Antonio Salieri set between two heavenly Mozart compositions. Salieri's music sounded hollow, flat and totally...could have killed him myself, had I been Salieri." Salieri's fame today rests largely...
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A renaissance of sorts for Antonio Salieri
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 1/5/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...2005 For more than 200 years, Antonio Salieri's obscure opera ''Europa Riconosciuta...Friends of Music in Vienna, which Salieri helped create and which houses...greatest opera stars are performing Salieri arias, while critics praise him...
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Maligned Master: The Real Story of Antonio Salieri.
Magazine article from: Notes; 6/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...the mid-nineteenth century, Antonio Salieri's musical assessment and notoriety...refuted the old claims against Salieri beginning with his doctoral thesis...with his three volume biography, Antonio Salieri. Sein Leben und seine weltlichen...
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Antonio Salieri and Viennese opera.
Magazine article from: Opera Canada; 3/22/2000; 700+ words
; ANTONIO SALIERI AND VIENNESE OPERA John A. Rice University of Chicago Press, 1998; 648pp.; $147 Long mythologized as the murderer of Mozart, Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) has endured many a misrepresentation. Depicted as...
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Forget "Amadeus": Bartoli unearths Salieri's genius
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 2/17/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...movie, Cecilia Bartoli says. Antonio Salieri isn't the bad guy who poisoned...best-actor Oscar for playing Salieri.) "It was a great movie, but...s unbelievable." So who was Antonio Salieri? Born in Legnano, Italy, in...
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Bartoli Tours U.S. for 'Salieri Album'
News Wire article from: AP Online; 2/17/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...movie, Cecilia Bartoli says. Antonio Salieri isn't the bad guy who poisoned...best-actor Oscar for playing Salieri.) "It was a great movie, but...s unbelievable." So who was Antonio Salieri? Born in Legnano, Italy, in...
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The real Salieri
Magazine article from: Opera News; 3/28/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...libretto by Mattia Verazi, music by Antonio Salieri. Although La Scala's traditional...proverbial dustbin of history, but Salieri himself, in his modest way, has...Music in late April. The real Salieri, like the real E. T. A. Hoffmann...
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Entrevista / Cecilia Bartoli / Rescata la musica de Salieri.(El Angel)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 2/8/2004; 700+ words
; ...paisanaje con el compositor local Antonio Salieri (1750-1825), al extremo de...la abogada defensora del maestro Salieri. "No poda quedarme quieta mientras...musicolgico pueden encontrarse en El lbum Salieri, una seleccin de arias dirigida...
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Antonio Salieri
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Antonio Salieri , 1750-1825, Italian composer and conductor...however, distrusted him and believed that Salieri tried to poison him. Though Mozart...Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Mozart et Salieri (1898) and a play by Peter Shaffer...
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Salieri, Antonio
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Salieri, Antonio ( b Legnano, 1750; d Vienna, 1825). It. composer and conductor...he poisoned him (as is depicted in Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri ). Taught Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt. Wrote over 40 operas...
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Horton, John
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...Common Wheel, Circle in the Square, New York City, 1979. Nick, Bedroom Farce, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 1979. Antonio Salieri, Amadeus, Broadhurst Theatre, New York City, between 1980 and 1983. Boyet, Love's Labour's Lost, New York...
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Music, Classical
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
...growing, have become a part of the composer's identity. The most notorious is that Mozart was murdered by his rival Antonio Salieri, which was the subject of a play by Alexander Pushkin and an operatic setting by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov nearly...
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Schubert, Franz
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...composing by himself. He left the choir at age fifteen when his voice changed, but continued to study at the seminary. Antonio Salieri, the emperor's music director, heard about Schubert's talents and took him in as a student. Early period In...
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