Amadeus Essay 2 - 2119 Words

Outline THESIS: Amadeus is a fictionalized account of the relationship between Mozart and Salieri. Mozart is shown as an exceptional musician considered today by some to be the greatest of all geniuses in his field having knocked out compositions for assorted solo instruments, opera and symphonic orchestras by the time he was thirty-five years old. Salieri was a talented composer and, had Mozart never lived, he albums might have been available for sale today. I. The film Amadeus is fairly accurate although it exaggerates and oversimplifies and appears to take greatest warrant in the area which is central to the film, the relationship between Mozart and Salieri. II. The relationships of both Mozart and Salieri to†¦show more content†¦However, the composer himself declared, People make a mistake who think my art has come easily to me. Nobody has devoted so much time and thought to composition as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not studied over and over (Sc hure). The creative, artistic character, especially in its extraordinary or genius form, is complex and contradictory. In order to create a more dramatic and perhaps more simple story, author Peter Shaffer and director Milos Forman chose to emphasize the wilder aspects of Mozart and the more controlled aspects of Salieri. The complexities of both men, apparent in more historically-based accounts, are forfeited to the drama of this exaggerated and simplified contrast. The choice produced an exciting and popular film (which is amazing itself for the life of two classical composers dead two hundred years), but an inaccurate historical portrait of those men. The films portrayal of the two composers as being so completely foreign to one another is to fail to see that there is indeed in every artist both an active heart and mind. One dominates, but the other must be engaged. The heart must inspire the mind, but the mind must channel the heart. 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