by PeterShaffer (Author)
This play takes the probable apocryphal legend that Mozart was poisoned by a rival composer, Antonio Salieri, a relatively moral and highly-regarded court musician and teacher who could not live with the fact that God had given him the power to appreciate the greatest music but had chosen such a horrible little sod as Wolfgang as his literal instrument.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 27 Jul 1981
ISBN 10: 0140481605
ISBN 13: 9780140481600
Book Overview: Reissued to tie-in with the re-release of the Director's Cut of the 1984 film Armadeus on 26th July 2002 in cinemas nationwide. Starring Simon Callow and Jeffrey Jones.