Robert A. Martinez writes:

>Does anyone know the true relationship Mozart and Antonio Salieri had? How
>acurate is the move "Amadeus"?

I'm not sure anyone but Mozart and Salieri know their true realationship
and they aren't telling.  There is evidence that they were on a much more
cordial footing than has often been portrayed.

How accurate was the movie? Where do you want to start? One thing that
people tend to overlook is that the movie (play, really) was supposed to
be a portrayal of Salieri's perception of Mozart, not a biography of the
latter.  It is all based on truth, even the poisoning issue.  There is no
hard evidence that Mozart was poisoned.  In fact, it is pretty certain he
wasn't.  However, he did in extremis say he felt as if he had been poisoned
and Salieri in old-age dementia claimed to have poisoned him.  Also, I
doubt that Mozart would have pranced and babbled in front of so influential
a personage as Salieri, as Schaffer had him do, but I've no doubt that
Salieri would have heard enough of "Mozart unbuttoned" to have got the
picture.

Eric James