Word: imp
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...missing is a creative re-evaluation of our understanding of the composer himself. The immensely popular Milos Forman film Amadeus effectively destroyed the image it set out to falsify: the delicate porcelain infant seated at a porcelain keyboard. But as the child prodigy gives way to the giggling imp, the relationship between the reprehensible or at least unremarkable man and his great music becomes paradoxical. And, ironically, the popular conception of Mozart has been shaped by a film in which the composer is a supporting actor...