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hilarymeggin t1_iu2lx5b wrote

Reply to comment by wjbc in F. Murray Abraham holding up his Best Actor Academy Award, for his role as Antonio Salieri in "Amadeus" (1984), March 25, 1985 by norrisrw

Salieri was an excellent composer?? Care to provide any examples? Because I’ve heard some real stinkers he wrote. Lots and lots of I V I V I V I V I.

I have an open mind though. I’m ready to learn from you.

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cartstanza t1_iu4zwew wrote

Can you remember no melody of his? He was the most famous composer in Europe! He wrote 40 operas alone!

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hilarymeggin t1_iu5ira0 wrote

Ok that made me laugh. So I’m giving the Salieri symphony I started yesterday one more try.

What I really want is for someone to give me two pieces, a mediocre one by Salieri and a masterpiece by Mozart, and see if I can tell them apart.

I’ve seen some quizzes like that online, where you have to guess whether something was written by Dickens or a terrible writer. The problem is that they don’t distinguish great writing from poor writing, just the person who wrote it. Like not everything Mozart wire was a masterpiece, and not everything Salieri wrote was terrible. But I think I’d do pretty well distinguishing great music and terrible music.

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hilarymeggin t1_iu5j7zn wrote

Okay, I just searched Apple Music for Salieri Arias, and *everything * that came up was a Mozart aria. That’s gotta hurt!

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