Word: salieri
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...Mozart of the public consciousness is now an absent author, a passive mouthpiece for, according to Salieri in the film, "the voice of God." But in a world without God, whose voice is it that we hear in Mozart's music...
...Salieri of Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus, from which the film was adapted, sees the transcendent in Mozart's music, and, inevitably, the immanent in his own. And his own barrenness torments him. He despairs that he can only hear, and not create, the absolute music that flows from his rival's pen. In this sense, Amadeus is brutally relevant, as it engages the quintessentially post-modern problem of creative importence. More coherant and more powerful than the film it spawned, the play presents itself as a speculative exercise rather than a revisionist biography...