This summary is of the document "Essay on Amadeus": 1) The document discusses the rivalry between composers Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart set during the Age of Enlightenment in Vienna. Salieri's position as the most successful musician is threatened by the child prodigy Mozart's spontaneous talent. 2) It describes how Salieri meticulously composed his operas through many revisions, while Mozart's operas were initially failures as they opposed conventions of the time. 3) Emperor Joseph embraced Mozart's unconventional ideas for his operas, showing his enlightened thinking, despite opposition from nobility and the church. This contrasted Salier

1. Essay on Amadeus
At the age of the Enlightenment, Antonio Salieri becomes the most triumphant musician in the city of Vienna, however, without any warning his
harmonious universe comes to an utter halt. Salieri’s absolute faith in the world, in himself, and in God is all at once diminished by this
spontaneous child composer. When the two opposite ends meet, there emerges a fury, a rage, and a passion in Salieri to sabotage the boy that has
secured Salieri’s deserved God given talent; to destroy the one pubescent child that has made him so mute and naked now in a world of
discordance. Salieri’s entire reputation and boyhood prayer to attain fame thus rests on his ability to annihilate that child prodigy, Wolfgang
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He thus rationally and intelligently composes the operas in a meditative way. Salieri works on his operas continually with many rewrites, drafts, and
edits. Calling up to God, “You know how hard I’ve worked!'; (1,12) Salieri indicates his agony. This exemplifies the
colossal dedication Salieri devotes in practicing this art. On the other hand, Mozart’s operas do not appeal to audiences during the age
of Enlightenment. Instead, Mozart’s musicals exert offense, especially to that of the nobility, and in turn his operas are failures during
this age. For example, Mozart’s score of figaro includes a ballet, that was expressly forbidden by the king. However, instead of
immediately apologizing and excluding it from his opera, Mozart attempts to go around the decree. He explains that it is not an insertion of ballet, but
rather it is a dance and the king does not disallow dancing when it is a portion of the story. Mozart continues opposing the Age of Enlightenment and
the commands of the high society by abandoning them through language and themes of his operas. Despite the fact that the nobility will be upset,
Mozart aspires to do pieces about “real people'; set in a “real place'; and in the real language of the people (2,4). He explains
to Van Swieten that he wants his operas in German in order to communicate with the majority about the most exciting thing on earth, that is,
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2. Essay about The Film Amadeus
The Film Amadeus
This paper will take a look into the movie Amadeus, to see if the film accurately
depicts the history of Amadeus and the enlightenment of the characters. The time period
that the film takes place in is the 18th century. There is a mixture ofsocial class in this
film. There are rulers and commoners shown in this film. The main characters in the film
which are Mozart, Salieri, and Emperor Joseph represent actual historical figures. The
film was made in 1984.
The film was somewhat accurate with the characters and the time, but for the
most part the film never stated what year everything was happening in. Someone could
tell that the time frame of the film was the 18th century, but...show more content...
For example when
Emperor Joseph wanted Amadeus to stay in Vienna to make an opera he also wanted him
to stay because it would upset the bishop. There were also many ideas that Mozart
showed Joseph. Joseph allowed these works to happen showed his enlightenment. These

3. idea were seen wrong in the social class in Vienna, but Joseph still accept these ideas.
One example was the first opera that Mozart did for Joseph. Amadeus wanted to
do the opera in German. This was seen as unmoral cause all opera's were in Italian. Also
Mozart wanted to use a setting of Turkey. This idea was accepted by Joseph. The ideas
that Joseph accepted looked to be the most risky. These idea showed that he was an
enlighten Despot. Another example was when Mozart was plan on doing an opera on The
Marriage of Figaro. This was a very risquГ© opera. Mozart promised that it not going to be
a vulgar opera. Joseph again agreed to this opera, even do his subjects didn't agree. Then
during rehearsals there was ballet in the opera which was against the law to have in the
opera. This law was made by Joseph. Then after seeing the play without it, he wanted it
in because it didn't look right. He basically changed his own law, to the displeased of his
subjects again. Emperor Joseph showed enlightenment many times in this film.
Mozart can be viewed as an enlightenment hero. He stood against the opposition
of the church and the convention. For
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