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Mozart and Salieri (Russian: Моцарт и Сальери, romanized: Motsart i Salyeri) is a poetic drama by Alexander Pushkin. The play was written in 1830 as one of his four short plays known as The Little Tragedies, and was published in 1832. Based on one of the numerous rumours caused by the early death of Mozart, it features only three characters: Mozart, Antonio Salieri, and a non-speaking part in the blind fiddler whose playing Mozart finds hilarious, and Salieri is appalled by. It was the only one of Pushkin's plays that was staged during his lifetime.

The relationship between the two composers was also dealt with in 1832's "Szenen aus Mozarts Leben", a singspiel by Albert Lortzing.

Mozart and Salieri was the inspiration for Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus, which Shaffer adapted for the 1984 film of the same name.

Adaptations

• 1897 – Mozart and Salieri, opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• 1914 – Mozart and Salieri, silent film by Victor Tourjansky
• 1979 – Little Tragedies, a 1979 Soviet television miniseries

References

1. ^ "The Rivalry Of Mozart And Salieri". Mozart Project. 15 August 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2024.

External links

• Mozart and Salieri at the Wayback Machine (archived 2022-12-06), English translation.
• A production of the play as an audiodrama.

• 1830 plays
• Biographical plays about musicians
• Plays by Aleksandr Pushkin
• Plays adapted into operas
• Russian plays adapted into films
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in fiction
• Cultural depictions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Cultural depictions of Antonio Salieri
• Plays based on real people