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[[File:amadeus2_828.jpg|frame|Ladies and gentleman, the man who was among the greatest composers of all time]]
 
'''''Amadeus''''' is a 1979 stage play written by Peter Shaffer, adapted into a film in 1984. It is based off of an 1897 one-act opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korshakov, ''Mozart and Salieri'', which is in turn based on an 1830 drama of the same name by [[Alexander Pushkin]]. This article deals mainly with the film.
 
''Amadeus'' is a 1979 stage play written by Peter Shaffer, adapted into a film in 1984. It is based off of an 1897 one-act opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korshakov, ''Mozart and Salieri'', which is in turn based on an 1830 drama of the same name by [[Alexander Pushkin]]. This article deals mainly with the film.
 
[[Based on a Great Big Lie|Taking some liberties with historical accounts]], the story is told from the [[Sympathetic POV|point of view]] of Antonio Salieri, the court composer for Emperor Joseph II. A devout man, Salieri's faith is shaken when [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] arrives and wins the affections of the court and the audiences. That the boorish Mozart could create such magnificent compositions with seemingly no effort, while Salieri had to struggle to get to where he was, drives him to undermine Mozart any way he can. [[Downer Ending|Sometimes, he even succeeds]].
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Ironically, the greatest legacy of ''Amadeus'' was a considerable revival of interest in the life and work of Antonio Salieri.
 
The film version of ''Amadeus'' was named to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2019.
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* [[Academy Award]]: 1984 Best Picture winner. [[Milos Forman]] also won Best Director, and F. Murray Abraham won Best Actor for his turn as Salieri--competing against Tom Hulce's Mozart.
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