When discussing how good Salieri might of been, it’s useful to bear in mind that Beethoven himself once identified Salieri as his favorite composer.
“Amadeus” is one of the best examples of how “Bad Facts drive out Real Facts” in the public mind, and especially when it comes to movies. “Amadeus” is certainly a wonderful movie, but it is, at its base, a work of fiction; yet that part almost always gets forgotten. And after watching something like this people make the mistake of believing that they have actually learned something about the subject of the movie.
(Other notable examples have been “Inherit the Wind”, “The Belle of Amherst”, and most recently, “Oppenheimer”.)
When discussing how good Salieri might of been, it’s useful to bear in mind that Beethoven himself once identified Salieri as his favorite composer.
“Amadeus” is one of the best examples of how “Bad Facts drive out Real Facts” in the public mind, and especially when it comes to movies. “Amadeus” is certainly a wonderful movie, but it is, at its base, a work of fiction; yet that part almost always gets forgotten. And after watching something like this people make the mistake of believing that they have actually learned something about the subject of the movie.
(Other notable examples have been “Inherit the Wind”, “The Belle of Amherst”, and most recently, “Oppenheimer”.)
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