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This play takes the probable apocryphal legend that Mozart was poisoned by a rival composer, Antonio Salieri, a relatively moral and highly-regarded court musician and teacher who could not live with the fact that God had given him the power to appreciate the greatest music but had chosen such a horrible little sod as Wolfgang as his literal instrument.
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Peter Shaffer is a dramatist familiar to American audiences as the author of Equus and of a string of other theatrical successes: Five Finger Exercise, the Private Ear and the Public Eye, The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Black Comedy.
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"Peter Shaffer's infalliable instinct for what makes riveting theatre is again demonstrated in his awesomely talented new play Amadeus." -- --Sunday Express
"Shaffer orchestrates this gripping and fascinating conflict with consummate skill and delicious wit." -- --Saturday Review
"Shaffer orchestrates this gripping and fascinating conflict with consummate skill and delicious wit." -- --Saturday Review
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- PublisherPenguin UK
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0140481605
- ISBN 13 9780140481600
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages112
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