Steve Schwartz wrote:

>Shaffer has Mozart apologizing to the nobility.  The nobility were
>generally just as crude as he was.  The unbelievable point is not
>that Mozart was crude, but that the nobility would have taken offense.
>If Mozart had offended anybody by his speech, it would more likely have
>been the middle class, that group most affected by the Great Awakening of
>Evangelicalism in the 18th century.  This speaks to the issue of exactly
>how much Shaffer knows about Mozart's times.  I don't doubt he's read the
>letters.  I doubt that he knows the cultural context of the letters.

The point is:  he doesn't have to do (although I don't doubt that a
learned man like Shaffer knows the cultural context) - he doesn't have to
do because the movie is not about historical fact.  It is art, you know,
not an essay on the culture of the Mozart epoch.

Robert