How do you view that works such as Pushkin's "Mozart and Salieri" and "Amadeus" have influenced your legacy? Have they turned you from appreciated genius into an almost martyred status, due to a murder which never occurred?
Thank You,
Brad
As for these operas, plays and films and how they have altered the manner in which people view me, it is indeed a sad truth. Historians have been stupid enough to use my letters to my father as nearly their sole reference. A grave mistake indeed! How many of us report events in our life accurately in letters to our parents? Especially when we are young and away from them for the first time! Too, my father taught me to revise my own history before it happened, in order to indeed ensure a place in history.
Moreover, the modern image of me as a magical, nearly inhuman creature playing perfect music from perfect inspiration, and the perfect little husband with the perfect marriage are fabrications of the Romantics who came after me.
Basta! I am no martyred Kristkindl. I am a man of the 18th century with sensibilities, tastes and morals of the 18th century. That I am a human after all changes the music not one whit. Indeed, it makes it more accessible, does it not? If I am as human as you, then your own art is as attainable and necessary as mine is.
Wolfg. Mzt.
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Thank-you for visiting my blog, Herr Mozart. I consider it a great honor.
Great blog Herr, enjoyable posts.
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