Antonio Salieri
Italian composer and teacher (1750–1825)
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ItalyHe dominated opera in 18th-century Vienna, taught Beethoven and Schubert, and shaped the language of the form—then spent his last years haunted by a rumor he never shook: that he'd poisoned Mozart.
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Born in Legnago in 1750, Salieri studied under Florian Leopold Gassmann and became a protégé of Gluck, writing operas in three languages for Vienna, Paris, Rome, and Venice. From 1774 to 1792 he directed Italian opera for the Habsburg court, and from 1788 to 1824 served as imperial Kapellmeister, overseeing the court chapel and training a generation that included Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, and Hummel. He stopped writing operas after 1804, and his work faded from repertoire by 1868. After Mozart died in 1791, rumors spread that Salieri had poisoned him out of rivalry—medically disproven, but t…
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- Cublai, gran kan de’ Tartari2025
- Antonio Salieri: Piano Concertos2025
- BBC Music, Volume 32, Number 7: Mozart and his World2024
- Zauberoper2022
- Armida2021
- Tarare2019
- Les Horaces2018
- Les Danaïdes2015
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