In Amadeus, by Peter Shaffer, Peter Shaffer writes a play about the story of two very well known composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri.

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In Amadeus, by Peter Shaffer, Peter Shaffer writes a play about the story of two

very well known composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri.  One who

was naturally very talented in music and another who recognized the talents of others but

dreamed of a talent of music of his own.  Amadeus was and still is today a very famous

music composer who’s known all around the world.  He learned how to read and write

music at a very young age.  Amadeus had a very young personality, he was always very

playful and he had a very playful laugh.  He was loved and respected by everyone.

        

Salieri claimed that he killed Amadeus “Mozart”.  Salieri was always very

jealous of Mozart.  He claimed that Mozart was his role model, he wanted to be Mozart.  

At one point Salieri made a pact with God himself.  He asked God to grant him the gift of

artistic inspiration in his compositions and return he would “live with virtue”.  Salieri

also promised to honor Him with music all the days of his life.  When Mozart plays, he

confesses that he hears the “voice of God,” and he responds with such delight that it

makes him tremble.  Salieri  appreciated and loved music since he was a little boy.  To

his unfortunate, his father never allowed him to  express his music.  Salieri’s father didn’t

want to, what he claims, “parade him around” like a  trained monkey.  Salieri envied the

talent that Mozart had, which was the talent of music, but what Salieri did not realize is

that he had a wonderful talent of his own.  Salieri name wasn't incredibly well known

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because only Salieri had the ability to recognize greatness in music.  The whole town

depended on his opinion of the music.

 Salieri was always very envious of Mozart.  Mozart had everything and was

everything Salieri wanted to be.  Mozart had a wife who he loved by the name of

Constanze.  Salieri is jealous not just of Mozart's talent, but of the fact that God gave the

talent to Mozart.  He is envious of “God's laughter”, because he feels as if he’s an

average person and not a person ...

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