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Antonio Salieri (August 18, 1750 – May 7, 1825), was an Italian composer and conductor. As the Austrian imperial Kapellmeister from 1788 to 1824, he was one of the most important and famous musicians of his time.
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In Vienna, the music capital of Europe in the mid-18th century, Antonio Salieri reigned supreme. Despite a humble background, he had become the court composer for the Emperor of Austria. His music was greeted with the most extravagant praise and he was lavished with honors. Yet nowadays, no one remembers Salieri. Instead, Mozart is acclaimed as the genius of music from that period. What if Salieri, alone among his contemporaries, had foreseen his own eclipse?
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Einer populären Legende zufolge galt Antonio Salieri lange Zeit als minderbegabter Neider Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts. Infolge dieses schlechten Leumundes wurde seine Musik häufig als uninspiriert abgetan und nie einer genaueren Überprüfung unterzogen. Dies änderte sich allerdings in den letzten Jahren auffällig: So fand sich 2003 eine Sammlung mit ausgewählten Arien Salieris, gesungen von der italienischen Mezzosopranistin Cecilia Bartoli, aufgrund des gigantischen Verkaufserfolges sogar in den Pop-Charts wieder und erhielt 2004 u. a. den renommierten Echo-Klassik-Preis als Bestseller des Jahres sowie den Jahrespreis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Salieris Opern erleben mittlerweile auch auf der Bühne eine Renaissance, wie z.B. 1988 Tarare bei den Schwetzinger Festspielen und 1991 in Straßburg, 1994 Catilina in Darmstadt, 1995 Falstaff ossia Le tre burle bei den Schwetzinger Festpielen, 1998 Cublai, gran Kan de' Tartari beim Würzburger Mozartfest, 2003 Axur, Re d'Ormus in Zürich/Winterthur, 2004 Il Ricco d'un giorno in Legnago und L'Europa riconosciuta an der Mailänder Scala und in Wien, 2005 La Grotta di Trofonio in Lausanne und Wien, 2006 Axur, Re d'Ormus in Augsburg, München und Salzburg, La Cifra in Köln und Les Danaïdes bei den Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspielen, sowie bei den "Festivales Musicales" in Buenos Aires, 2007 Prima la musica e poi le parole beim Bayreuther Osterfestival.
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At the 2006 Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, Antonio Salieri’s pathbreaking Parisian opera Les Danaïdes was performed with almost no cuts. These performances showed that the Viennese court kapellmeister – unjustly branded by some 19th century music journalists to be Mozart’s murderer – was more than capable of brewing together a masterful concoction of genuine Italian and French ingredients which still has an intoxicating effect on a modern auditorium.
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Antonio Salieri, the Austrian emporer's court composer, has given himself to God so that he might realize his sole ambition - to be a great composer. Then young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a foul mouthed libertine and the greatest musical genius of all time, arrives on the scene. Salieri is stunned that this graceless youth has achieved that which is beyond his own grasp. Full of envy and hatred, Salieri sets out to destroy Mozart in a tale of breathtaking dramatic power.
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Salieri was born in Legnago, Italy, in 1750. At an early age, he took his first lessons, on both violin and harpsichord, from his older brother, Francesco. Later on he studied violin with local organist Giuseppe Simoni. At 15, Salieri lived for a brief period in Padua with another brother, a monk, after his parents' deaths. But his already formidable musical talents had drawn notice, and a family friend, Giovanni Mocenigo, arranged for his continued musical education in Venice. Salieri studied for a year there with Giovanni Pescetti and Ferdinando Pacini.
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