Antonio Salieri

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In real life Salieri got along well with young Mozart, and was even Mozart's music teacher. Salieri is one of the most influencial teachers in music history. See below the list of his pupils.

Antonio Salieri (18 August 1750 – 7 May 1825) was an Italian classical composer, conductor, and teacher. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the Habsburg Monarchy.

Salieri was a pivotal figure in the development of late 18th-century opera. As a student of Florian Leopold Gassmann, and a protégé of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Salieri was a cosmopolitan composer who wrote operas in three languages. Salieri helped to develop and shape many of the features of operatic compositional vocabulary, and his music was a powerful influence on contemporary composers.

Appointed the director of the Italian opera by the Habsburg court, a post he held from 1774 until 1792, Salieri dominated Italian-language opera in Vienna. During his career he also spent time writing works for opera houses in Paris, Rome, and Venice, and his dramatic works were widely performed throughout Europe during his lifetime. As the Austrian imperial Kapellmeister from 1788 to 1824, he was responsible for music at the court chapel and attached school. Even as his works dropped from performance, and he wrote no new operas after 1804, he still remained one of the most important and sought-after teachers of his generation, and his influence was felt in every aspect of Vienna's musical life. Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart were among the most famous of his pupils.

Salieri's music slowly disappeared from the repertoire between 1800 and 1868 and was rarely heard after that period until the revival of his fame in the late 20th century. This revival was due to the fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus (1979) and its 1984 film version. The death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1791 at the age of 35 was followed by rumors that he and Salieri had been bitter rivals, and that Salieri had poisoned the younger composer, yet this has been proven false, and it is likely that they were, at least, mutually respectful peers.
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List of the best known students of Salieri

• Ignaz Assmayer
• Marianne Auenbrugger
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Carl Blum
• Antonio Casimir Cartellieri
• Caterina Cavalieri
• Luigi Cherubini
• Elise Czabon
• Carl Czerny
• Karl von Doblhoff-Dier
• Joseph Leopold Edler von Eybler
• Johann Gänsbacher
• Amalie Haehnel
• Anton Haizinger
• Ferdinand Louis Joseph Hérold
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel
• Anselm Hüttenbrenner
• Jan Antonín Koželuh
• Franz Liszt
• Giacomo Meyerbeer
• Anna Pauline Milder-Hauptmann
• Ignaz Moscheles
• Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (the youngest son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• Auguste Mathieu Panseron
• Maria Theresia Paradis
• Benedict Randhartinger
• Anton Reicha
• Carl Gottlieb Reißiger
• Girolamo Salieri
• Leopold Schefer
• Louis Schlösser
• Franz Schubert
• Simon Sechter
• Joseph Seipelt
• Joseph Hartmann Stuntz
• Franz Süssmayr
• Franz Tausch
• Ignaz Umlauf
• Caroline Unger
• Betty Vio
• Johann Michael Vogl
• Joseph Weigl
• Franz Wild
• Peter von Winter

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Antonio Salieri (Legnago, 18 agosto 1750 – Vienna, 7 maggio 1825) è stato un compositore e insegnante di musica italiano del classicismo, autore sia di musica sacra che operistica. Cittadino della Repubblica di Venezia, trascorse la maggior parte della sua vita alla corte imperiale asburgica di Vienna per la quale fu compositore e maestro di cappella. Salieri ebbe come allievi molti musicisti famosi: Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Czerny e Hummel, a dimostrare la validità della sua scuola di composizione.

Fu un musicista eccezionale e un ottimo insegnante; tuttavia, il suo nome è rimasto legato nell'immaginario collettivo ad una presunta rivalità con Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, che alimentò voci su accuse di plagio e perfino di aver causato la morte del compositore salisburghese, supposizione priva di qualunque fondamento storico ma riproposta da Peter Shaffer nel dramma Amadeus nel 1979 e poi dal regista Miloš Forman nel film omonimo.

La pretesa invidia alla base della sceneggiatura del film e la conseguente inimicizia tra i due compositori è del tutto improbabile, anche perché Salieri riscosse grande celebrità nel corso della sua lunga carriera (Mozart, invece, raggiunse l'apice della fama dopo la morte); inoltre, tra i suoi pupilli vi fu uno dei figli dello stesso Mozart, Franz Xaver Wolfgang.