Ironically this movie actually sparked something of a revival of Salieri's music; he'd been largely forgotten but performances and recordings of his music increased dramatically after its release.

Salieri was married, had tons of children, was a faithful Catholic until his death, he didn't hate Mozart and he was a great teacher. He was almost the opposite of the character presented in the movie. (I still love the movie very much.)

I find it ironic that a video about a movie about a music composer should be plagued with sound problems.

That choir of school children has greater constitution and self control than a lot of people I know.

I didn't find out until after I'd seen it that this movie was made in fucking 1984. It looks like it could have been made in the last decade, easily. An absolutely timeless masterpiece.

Tom Hulce (Mozart), has said in interviews when asked about the irritating giggle he used for the film, that he has never been able to produce that sound again. He doesn’t know why, he just can’t.

Something often overlooked: Mozart's wife Constanze was a trained, talented musician in her own right and many people believe she played an important role in her husband's career.

If a kid hears they are going to watch a movie about Mozart, they'd probably imagine it being boring af. Then they watch this amazing gem. Happens everytime

The scene of Salieri beautifully internalizing Mozart's music from notes on paper alone is wonderful. The ability to do that in the age before recorded sound is incredible to me.

One small detail that you forgot to include in the video is that Mozart and Salieri where so amicable towards each other that Salieri was the music teacher of Franz Xavier Mozart, the son of Amadeus.

Salieri was only 6 years older than Mozart so unless he got unlucky with his genetics the actor should look much younger

Why does everyone always forget this, this is a story being told by a man who just tried to kill him self this is all built up in his head this is his version of the story from his view at his lowest.

Steven Spielberg decides that he wants to make a movie about famous composers. He puts out a casting call. Tom Hulce walks in first and says, "I played Mozart in _Amadeus_, and would love to play him again." Next, Gary Oldman calls. "I was Beethoven in _Immortal Beloved_, so I already have experience playing the part." Arnold Schwarzenegger meets with him, and states, "I'll be Bach."

I feel like Squidward is loosely based off of Salieri

He just seems like the first rock star. Tons of fame, alcohol, & women.

I love this movie because it’s very entertaining, and while most of the stuff about Salieri is is made up historical fiction, particularly the fact that he killed Mozart, he DID actually claim that he did it in real life when he was a senile old man in his late 60s-70s in a mental institution. Since this entire story is being told as a confession to a priest by an elderly and senile Salieri in a mental institution, it’s very plausible to interpret Salieri as a very unreliable narrator in the movie. You could just assume that these are just mad ravings of a broken, demented, and senile old man. That’s why the movie works. It also helps that the music is lovely and the two leading actors do a great job with their roles. Still, there is SOME truth to the story, particularly in regards to Mozart’s characterization, family, and backstory in the movie. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart WAS a musical child prodigy who wrote his first composition at five, his first symphony at 8, and his first full scale opera at just 12 years old. They weren’t just simple little little melodies that you would expect from a five-to twelve year child. They were beautiful and complex melodies. His father Leopold was a composer who DID take his son under his wing to teach him everything he knew about music, and toured Europe with him to show him off when he was just a little boy. Leopold Mozart really WAS a rather controlling, disapproving, overbearing, and overprotective parent in regards to the personal lives of his children, even when they reached their adulthoods. Not only did he disapprove of Wolfgang marrying Constanze Weber and moving in with her without his consent first, but he also tried to sabotage his daughter Maria Anna’s marriage too. While probably not as boastful and impolite in public as portrayed in Amadeus, in real life, Mozart really WASN’T always this modest and humble prodigy either. He knew his music was amazing, but a lot of his contemporaries really DID think that there were “too many notes” in his music and thought he was trying too hard to sound impressive. In his letters to and from his father in Vienna from the 1780s, Wolfgang DOES come across as being a conceited and delusional brat towards the Italians in Vienna by unfairly accusing them of forming “cabals” led by Salieri to actively sabotage his attempts to establish himself as a composer there. The letters suggest that Wolfgang, Leopold, and Nanneral resented the Italians for their special place in Austrian courts, considering the fact that they were Austrian themselves. This resentment that Mozart had towards Salieri probably originated from an incident in 1781 when Salieri got the job to be the music teacher of Princess Elisabeth of Würtemmberg instead of Mozart because he had a better reputation as singing and piano instructor. While I do think Mozart WAS a better composer than Salieri, though Salieri was pretty good at composing, too, Salieri was a better music TEACHER than Mozart was in Vienna at the time, so he got the post instead. If there was any evidence of ridiculous jealousy and resentment between Mozart and Saleri, it was actually on Mozart’s side in real life, not Saleri’s. Even then, Mozart still got along with Saleri in public, and never tried to sabotage him, or put him down as a musician. He and his family were just venting their frustrations in private letters about Wolfgang struggling to establish hims as a successful composer, musician, and music teacher in Vienna. However, like his attitude in public in the movie, there definitely IS this sense of arrogance, boastfulness, and pettiness in his and his family’s ridiculous accusations of the Italians secretly plotting to sabotage his success in Vienna. So, while not nearly as overt about it in public as he was portrayed as being in the movie Amadeus, Wolfgang really DID low-key have somewhat of an arrogant and narcissistic side to his personality at times. While Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart DID make a pretty good living as a composer in Vienna for his family and himself, he really WAS a spendthrift, who found himself in debt a lot quickly afterwards because he spent too much money on himself, his wife, and their son, so he went around begging his friends and contemporaries for money when he ran out. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart really DID have a dirty low brow sense of humor. He loved potty humor and sex jokes so much that he even wrote a three part choral piece called “Leck mich im Arcshe” (“Kiss My Ass”) as a joke for a party to sing with his friends. However, in real life Mozart wasn’t THAT much of an alcoholic, overtly obnoxious and arrogant, or a party/frat boy. He was much more introverted, he was capable of being mature and polite when he needed to be in public in comparison to how he was portrayed as being arrogant and rude in public with the Emperor and the rest of the court in Amadeus. While an extremely gifted composer with superior technical skill as a musician in real life, even child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music compositions went through several corrections and revisions in real life. It is NOT like in Amadeus in which Saleri claims Mozart just wrote down whatever he heard in his head on blank sheet music perfectly in tune every time with “no corrections,” “like he was just taking dictations.” That’s a superhuman ability that even most geniuses aren’t capable of. Considering the fact that the story in this movie is primarily being told from the POV of an elderly and demented Saleri, who believes that Mozart had this superhuman superiority as a composer in comparison to him and other composers when he is in a mental institution, it is completely probable that he is exaggerating the strength of Mozart’s skills as musician and composer as better than they actually were. I’m not saying that means Mozart’s music isn’t amazing or that he wasn’t a genius. Mozart *was* a prodigy, who showed his genius in music from the time he was a preschool-aged toddler of 3 years old. Along with Beethoven, Mozart is still considered the greatest and most popular of classical composers in history over two centuries after his death for a good reason, but he still was a human being. He made corrections/revisions to his scores when composing his music, just like any other composer. There also isn’t any evidence that Salieri killed him out of envy and resentment. There’s more evidence that they actually were supportive of each other in real life, who openly admired each other’s work. Salieri also wasn’t this extremely devout Catholic in real life, who vowed to remain abstinent throughout his life to God in exchange for the ability to become a great composer and musician. In fact, he had a wife and several children. There is little to no evidence that the young opera singer Caterina Cavileri, who was singing the lead role of Konstanze in Mozart’s German opera The Abduction from the Seraglio, actually ever had an affair with Mozart, as Salieri believed he had in Amadeus. Even in the movie that assumption that Saleri made is iffy at best because there’s really no reason to not believe that Caterina could have just had unrequited feelings for Mozart. He genuinely seems shocked when she made that “I bet she’s great in bed” comment about Constanze, even when she’s not there to hear them, and throughout the rest of the movie, Wolfgang’s completely devoted to Stanzi, so it would be pretty out of character for him to have an affair with a singer in an opera he just met. I think Saleri was probably just misinterpreting the whole conversation out of jealousy. In real life, there’s actually more evidence that Salieri had an affair with Caterina Caverleri than Mozart. While there are truths to real life here and there, particularly with Mozart’s character, the writers of Amadeus also definitely made Salieri much more austere and conservative than he actually was in real life. There’s no legitimate evidence to prove that Salieri actually killed Mozart. There’s no evidence that Salieri ever sexually harassed Constanze Mozart to deliberately humiliate her when she asked him to commission his music, so he could get revenge against her husband for presumably having an affair with Caterina Cavileri. Peter Shaffer definitely exaggerated Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s arrogance, alcoholism, childishness, obnoxiousness, and vulgarity by making him be much more overt and over-the-top about it in his adulthood, so that they could give this version Salieri a reason to despise him so much that he would want to kill him in the play. The real Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart truly did seem to possess arrogant, immature, and silly personality traits that carried into his adulthood from his letters. He really did enjoy making low-brow sex innuendos/jokes and toilet humor well into his adulthood. According to descriptions of his laugh in the writings of his friends, it really did sound like “the braying of a jackass” and as “grating a cobblestone down a piano’s strings.” Tom Hulce likely played up Mozart’s laugh as even more hilariously obnoxious in the film than it was in real life for the sake of making the character his own and fueling Salieri’s annoyance. I think the real Wolfgang Amadeus was likely a lot more low-key about his arrogant and buffoonish manchild side in real life than he was portrayed as being in the movie. If he were really as openly arrogant, childish, obnoxious, and rude of an adult in real life as he was portrayed in Amadeus, I very highly doubt Mozart could have been able to get commissioned to write operas in Vienna by Emperor Joseph II at all, no matter how amazing his music was.

I loved that silly ass giggle...my fav parts of the movie. Side bar: Abraham stole EVERY scene he was in. His scenes describing Mozart's compositions were breath taking.

I thought they portrayed him like a rock star, which made perfect sense to me.

I could not move from my seat when I first saw this movie in the theater in 1984. I was drenched in tears but felt joy and also haunted. I’ve never experienced that kind of emotion from the movie before and never experienced again to this day. Timeless classic at its best.

I am one of those hardcore Mozart fans, I’ve been playing his music since I was 12, and I love the portrayal of Mozart in this film. I really think it’s close to accurate. He was a bonafide genius but with most geniuses they have serious character flaws. I can’t imagine having a childhood like his. It was written that when his father realized this God given miracle in his son he had a duty not only as a father but as a teacher to share it. Hence the years of touring Europe with short breaks home from age 5 to 17. But through all that he composed over 800 pieces of music in his short 35 years of life. Mozart’s music is still fun and challenging to play, and his Requiem always brings me to tears.

"Amadeus" is quite a clever movie. It's not meant to be a biography of Mozart. It's a story told by Salieri who went crazy and now has to tell the story from his perspective. If you consider that, the story is naturally biased. On the surface it looks like Salieri never gets any recognition and Mozart is the all-loved genius that gets so much praise. That's because Salieri is the narrator of the story. What we actually see is something completely different: Salieri is highly respected by everyone and the emperor prefers his work over Mozart's. Mozart is the eccentric oddball nobody respects and even though people acknowledge his talent, they always look down on him because of his weird humor and crazy antics.

I love the scene where Mozart's mother in law is yelling at him and the scene transitions to the Night Queen Aria from "The Magic Flute". I had to pause the movie to laugh a good five minutes the first time I saw it. Edit: wow 1.7k likes, that's pretty crazy, thanks everyone. And to Tarsantino, learn to have a sense of humor, don't spoil other people's fun. I still think that Scene is hilarious!

One small fact that was overlooked was that Mozart rarely conducted his own operas while living in Vienna

Man. Guy has been dead for hundreds of years, but you still pay Salieri respect. Respect.

In other words, Mozart was a musical genius who would fit right into the typical college frat house.

If you don't understand German you will never grasp the amazing feeling when you are visiting family abroad, they take you to a school perfomance and it's proudly proclaimed that the choir will now sing "Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber" by Mozart. I couldn't bear the whole session as i broke out in laughter and draw the attention of all the proud and angered parents. My uncle joined in though, once i had enough breath to explain the situation to him. :,D

As an artist, I love how they showed both sides of creativity. The feeling of being a creative genius and the utter hatred of self when hearing someone else create an undeniably beautiful song or work of art.

I cannot ever get enough of this utterly brilliant movie.

As a music historian, I say to you, well done! You got your facts right!

The best part is that they got a children’s choir to sing the ‘lick my ass’ song 😹😹😹

This is my favorite movie. :D Our 6th grade Music teacher had us watch it and most of the other kids thought it was boring. I fell in love with Mozart’s music that day. The OG rockstar.

I agree that the scene with Scalieri discussing Mozart's work is one of the best in cinematic history. I think the film was great. I also appreciate the thorough nature of this documentary. Very well put together. New subscriber.

Holy shit. Once the choir started singing it took me 2 seconds before the lyrics sank in (I can speak German) I 've been laughing my head off for a good 15 minutes now.. No words for it, absolutely no words.. Tears down my face.. I just can't stop laughing.. Thanks Mozart.

Amadeus was one of the best movies ever made, even if the story isn't really accurate. Tom Hulce deserved an Oscar too.

His giggle was hilarious. This is one of my all-time favorite films. I was aware of the inconsistencies with actual history, but not to this degree. Thank you for your video.

I actually knew a guy in high school that lapped very similarly to how Tom Holce laughed in the movie. He was a very nice guy and actually quite big for someone his age. At 17 he stood 61, and wait about 280lbs. So to imagine a guy that big and to have a laugh that sounds so much like that always blew my mind. Then I watched this movie a few years ago and instantly thought about him. There laughs are so similar it's spooky. And he didn't do that for shits and giggles, that's really how he laughed.

MAYBE, just maybe, someone will make a movie titled: "Salieri, friend of Mozart."

Also, Mozart was only like 6 years younger than Salieri, so while the age gap works great for the film (experience vs natural skill, etc) it puts a lot more of a difference between the two than there actually was.

Thank you so very much for pointing out the similarities of personality in Mozart and MJ. So few seem to recognize the devastating effects of being denied a childhood, especially on a genius!

The scene at 7:45 reminded me of this: I was at a 70mm film screening back when "Amadeus" first came out, and exactly right after Salieri says ".... a single note, hanging there unwavering..." a splice in the film made the sound drop out for a split second. That totally destroyed the dramatic tension of the scene, and the whole audience burst into laughter. When I told the manager about the unfortunate placement of that film break repair, he said "I wondered why people were laughing at that point as I'd never heard them laugh before." I suggested he contact the studio and get a replacement film reel to stop the problem. A week later at another showing, thankfully I saw (and heard) that the reel was replaced.

When Mozart does his shenanigans, he's a genius. When I do this-I get sent to the Principal.

You know that's really kind of sad. To not only be wrongly remembered for killing a friend, but wrongly remembered for having hated your friend enough to do it.

if i get too deep into mozart it brings me to tears. its always been like this. his music connects perfectly with my heart. its sublime and surreal at the same time. rarely does an artist touch anyone so deeply. his understanding of harmonic balance and the use of passing tones and chromatics is unreal. he switches modes and tonic and key anytime he wishes for any reason he does it perfectly. i can't listen it disables me emotionally.

I love the end. Delicate little piano piece by Salieri whose music, ironically, got a rebirth after "Amadeus".

One of the greatest details of this movie has to do with Mozart's giggle. It's fantastic, and fits what was written about him at the time, that he had an incredibly irritating laugh. But the amazing thing is that it wasn't _Hulce's_ giggle, but _Mozart's._ When Forman was editing the finished footage and got to the end, he realized he needed another laugh from Mozart. So he got Hulce to come in and record one, but they found he could no longer do the laugh. He'd lost it when he'd left the character, so Forman had to mine one of the laughs from earlier in the film. It was a mannerism that belonged only to the character. I find that fascinating.

Historically, yes, the Salieri vs Mozart thing was complete fiction, but in the context of a standalone film, it makes a wonderfully compelling story of a man who tries to do good becoming possessed by his worse nature. For who WOULDN'T be mad if they poured their heart and soul into something just to have it be overshadowed by someone just coasting along? That bit about Salieri having dimentia is also interesting, as the entire film is told from his point of view as this ailing old man. Who knows how much of it is true, and whether or not he is subconsciously believing the rumors himself?

Mozart was truly ahead of his time, using fog machines in live shows!

The Magic Flute. I saw it first years ago when the Metropolitan Opera used the Chagall sets. I will never forget it

Mozart's childish vulgarity only makes me love him more.

As a fan of Mozart I love his portrayal in the movie, dude was the closest thing a rockstar that era had and it's both rad and hilarious.

I watched this film because of your video and I can honestly say it’s definitely one of the greatest films I’ve ever watched

The 'Directors Cut' really enriches this movie , especially his wife and Salieri !

Things Antonio Salieri deserved: NOT THAT

"Amadeus" is not a biography about Mozart. It is the story of a well gifted musician beside a genius in whose presence anyone else feels mediocre.

That's what I love about KZfaq, where else can you not only learn about the history of music but also listen to it. You proved your point. Salieri was a sublime composer.

It actually makes me love his music more, knowing he was the way he was. That is how Genius is.

Another misconception in the movie is that Mozart's wife, Constanza was just his landlady's daughter. She was, but her maiden name was Von Weber-she was the composer Carl Maria Von Weber's cousin, and a classical vocalist. It was a Music Business Marriage.

Salieri: Mozart: My neck..my back...

This is my first time visiting your channel and omg wow!!! Your intro is epic!!!! I really enjoyed this video thanks for your hard work ❤️

just wanna say I love your intro. I can't watch your videos before bed because it energizes me. awesome as always

"Mediocrity everywhere, I absolve you! I absolve you! I absolve you!" Amazing final words in a film about genius, jealousy and vengeance.

Has anyone noticed how similar Salieri and Squidward (Spongebob) are ? Both are bitter and jealous. Both try to become great musicians but a short little creature with an annoying giggle keeps disturbing Salieri/Squidward.

Amadeus is my all time favorite film. It helped me get into classical music when I was in high school. I was an oddball in my generation.

It's back! This video was taken down for a while and I had no idea where it was, looking through all of your videos lol. So glad I get to watch it again.

The casting of F. Murray Abraham was PERFECT. Not so much for his exquisite acting--which it certainly was, and he definitely deserved the Oscar for it--but because, up until that movie, he had been typecast as a criminal, a drug kingpin, a thug. His role in Scarface cemented him as that type. So when you watch Amadeus, you're not only watching a gifted actor play Mozart's rival, you also see that evil streak, the sinister underpinnings, and you believe that he actually could have murdered Mozart.

I love "Amadeus". Tom Hulce is a very underrated actor. F. Murray Abraham was fantastic as Salieri.

I just have to say, you have the most epic KZfaq intro I have ever seen, I love it!! Keep up the awesome work!

The film deserves the Oscars. Everyone who could not do anything with classical music before got access through some wonderful explanations from Salieri.

That, sir, IS my favorite scene too. "And then, suddenly, high above it, an oboe..." aw man! goosebumps everytime.

That one girl in the choir that's cracking up singing the "Lick my Arse" song is the most relatable of them.

There's a part at the end of the film where Salieri tells the priest that his music "grows fainter" as the years pass while mozarts music remains well known and lives on. That much is true. I never heard of Salieri until I saw this movie. Now, I'm not and never have been a player, composer, or even a fan of classical music. But when I was a kid, I was best friends with another kid who lived about 5 or 6 houses up the block from my place. He was a child prodigy classical pianist. He could play it all and very well. Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Liszt, Chopin, etc, you name it. Many was the time I'd be hanging out with him at his house when he'd call a time out and go to the grand piano he had in his living room to do his daily practice for an hour or so. As a result, I have heard of great composers such as Mozart, but still, I never heard of Salieri because as to the best of my knowledge, my friend never played Salieri. Not even once. I'm not even sure if my friend himself even knew who Salieri was.

Loved the video. Mozart was practically my best friend with I was very young. I knew who Mozart, Beethoven, etc. were before I knew anything about rock music. The first time I saw “Amadeus”, I got so angry to see my childhood “friend” treated that way. However, I rewatched it several years later after having read the play at which point, it became one of my favorite movies with my absolute favorite soundtrack of all time. I even went so far as to record the audio of the entire movie to use as a full cast audio book years before that became a “thing”. I would love to see a video about how similar or different Beethoven’s life was from “Immortal Beloved”.

I can't believe the AFI took this film off the 100 greatest American films list. It's easily one of the best films I've ever seen and it never gets old.

Amadeus is one of my favorite films-i cry my eyes out starting with the part where Salieri is pushing Mozart to finish the Requium , till the end "mediocrities of the world, I absolve you." It is a brilliant and perfect masterpiece. Your review was outstanding! So so interesting. I've seen Amadeus a thousand times and always wanted to know. Thank you so much.

Mozart was not almost penniless when he died. His wife had more than enough to pay off all of his debts at the time.

Mozart suffered from Michael Jackson syndrome. He was so talented he was forced to showcase his talent all over Europe for years and never allowed to have a childhood. No wonder he was eccentric.

Watched this movie recently, what a masterpiece. Abraham 's acting was superb!

"Oh my ass burn like fire" I completely lost it 😂 Mozart making some dank memes before it was cool

I feel so lucky and privileged to have this fantastic movie ( one of my all time favorites ) to add to my love for his music which was already there.

Love your videos, I am dreading the day when I will have seen them all...

Thank you for actually saying the things the film gets right. It’s much more accurate than people give it credit for, particularly Salieri’s love for Mozart’s music, the attention to detail with Mozart’s pieces and the dates which they were composed, and their public friendship. In fact, the entire film is told by Salieri after he loses his mind and the rumours that he killed Mozart actually made him believe he killed him. So in actually, Salieri is confessing what he believes he did to Mozart after he went insane. This interpretation not only adds historical accuracy but adds another layer of genius to this film.

IDK why KZfaq recommended this 3.5 years later but boy am I glad I watched it. Now I have a new composer to start playing on my piano!

I was just looking for this movie - thank you for the beautiful review.

This has got to be one of the greatest intros I've ever seen in youtube...Bring it back Nick!!!!!

"Go ahead, mock me! Laugh! But that wasn't Mozart who was laughing at me, it was God."

I freaking love mozart!

I didn't know what to expect when I clicked on this. But this was a very awesome, entertaining experience. Will sub.

Watched Amadeus a couple of days ago, so I was kind of surprise to see a review of it today. I went online and check how of a villain Salieri really was, to see that was all a creation. Props to the dude to have taught to Liszt, Schubert and Beethoven. He did great things for Lady Music.

Consider that until Amadeus both the play and the movie Salieri was mostly forgotten so in a strange way due to this slander he and his music lives again.

The boys in that choir of kids would definitely be cracking up (no pun intended) if they understood what they were singing. Also, WHY ARE SCHOOLCHILDREN SINGING THIS?

This is my absolute favorite episode 💛💛💛

6:12 I haven't had that good of a laugh in a long time. I was chewing on a piece of celery and I almost choked on it, every frame of the children singing it just got funnier and funnier, I had to wait a good minute for the tears to clear before i could see the screen to type this.

Nobody: Leopold Mozart: “Aye bruh check my boys soundcloud”

Mozart was a man of duality and contradiction. His maturity was stunted by his being a young phenom. When he moved from Salzburg to Vienna in 1781, his family felt betrayed. Mozart had to live without his beloved sister Nannerl, who turned against him through her fathers influence. Mozart was troubled by his families estrangement from him. Wolfie had written to them repeatedly, asking them to join him in Vienna. His hopes for a happy reunion were repeatedly turned down. Mozart's psyche was one of multiple-complexities in the last eleven years of his life. I loved the movie and Hulce was very entertaining in his portrayal. But, Mozart was a much more complex man than Hulce's depiction of him. He definitely suffered from depression and was often ill. Yet he had a deep soul, partied like a champ and took on the burden of being the breadwinner at home. He wrote music at an astonishingly fast rate for every genre. His greatest works were literally pouring out of him in those last 11 years. Works of astounding quality. He and his wife did squander money but they lived quite comfortably for the times. He would go out of his way for his fellow musicians. He allowed a friend to live rent-free in his home until he found another place to stay. Stanzy was not too happy about that. They could have used the extra income. As for the vulgarity, I have read all of those letters. He loved wordplay and a good joke. Most of them were written when he was a boy and young man still living in Salzburg. Lustful witticisms that were often answered back by an equally lustful female counterpart. He would never have been so rude as to write such things without a game penpal who relished the thrilling naughtiness of it all. They were harmless flirtations. He was also a math wizard. He had a brilliant intellect. In Vienna, he was described by a close friend as being a man who was often lost in deep thought but generous to his freinds. He did not suffer fools gladly but he had a good heart. I do urge people to seek out the real Mozart. He was a fascinating individual and much more interesting than the freakish, somewhat simple-minded depiction of him in Amadeus.

this video earns my respect and gratitude. Thank you.

Bravo! Great job 👏🏾

One thing to remember about "Amadeus": the story is told by an old man who has psychological problems, he is a textbook example of an unreliable narrator. Those looking for total historical accuracy from Amadeus will be disappointed, but I think the inaccuracies are excusable.

6:20 I'm German. I can understand EVERYTHING they sang! It was HILLARIOUS but also GLORIOUS!!!!

6:45, the fact the sing this with a straight face is the most impressive thing in this video

"such unfulfillable longing" is timeless. how does that not reduce and devastate the curios wonder and enthusiasm? there is no time to think about that.