Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated:
1
00:01:31,089 --> 00:01:33,387
I have been listening to the cats in the courtyard
2
00:01:35,637 --> 00:01:38,004
They are all singing Rossini
3
00:01:39,825 --> 00:01:42,692
It is obvious that cats have declined
almost as badly as composers
4
00:01:43,755 --> 00:01:45,268
Beginners please
5
00:01:46,591 --> 00:01:48,593
This is now the very last hour of my life
6
00:01:50,509 --> 00:01:54,798
You must understand me. Not forgive.
I do not seek forgiveness
7
00:01:56,298 --> 00:02:01,737
I was a good man, in the way that the world calls good.
What use was it to me?
8
00:02:05,011 --> 00:02:07,503
Goodness could not make me a good composer
9
00:02:09,379 --> 00:02:14,351
Was Mozart good?
Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art
10
00:02:16,741 --> 00:02:22,646
On that dreadful Night of the Manuscripts
my life acquired a terrible and thrilling purpose:
11
00:02:23,789 --> 00:02:27,419
the blocking of God in one of His purest manifestations
12
00:02:28,982 --> 00:02:34,546
I had the power. God needed Mozart
to let Himself into the world
13
00:02:35,999 --> 00:02:40,641
And Mozart needed me to get him worldly advancement
14
00:02:41,441 --> 00:02:46,311
So it would be a battle to the end -
and Mozart was the battleground
15
00:02:48,703 --> 00:02:52,845
One thing I knew of God: He was a cunning Enemy
16
00:02:54,972 --> 00:02:56,940
Witness the fact that in blocking Him in the world...
17
00:02:57,830 --> 00:03:02,609
...I was also given the satisfaction
of obstructing a disliked human rival
18
00:03:04,253 --> 00:03:08,554
I wonder which of you
would refuse that chance if it were offered
19
00:03:15,711 --> 00:03:19,409
I felt the danger at once,
as soon as I'd spoken my challenge
20
00:03:21,017 --> 00:03:28,151
How would He respond?
Would He strike me down for my impiety?
21
00:03:30,241 --> 00:03:36,010
Do not laugh. I was not a sophisticate of the salons
22
00:03:37,512 --> 00:03:43,770
I was a small-town Catholic, full of dread
23
00:03:47,681 --> 00:03:52,323
The first thing that happened - barely one hour later...
24
00:03:56,315 --> 00:03:58,500
Constanze was back! At ten o'clock at night!
25
00:04:00,433 --> 00:04:01,980
Signora!
26
00:04:02,374 --> 00:04:04,547
My husband is at a soirée of Baron Swieten
27
00:04:05,618 --> 00:04:08,030
A concert of Sebastian Bach.
He didn't think I would enjoy it
28
00:04:09,370 --> 00:04:13,204
I see... We will ring if we require anything
29
00:04:27,757 --> 00:04:29,577
Where do we go, then?
30
00:04:30,299 --> 00:04:31,915
What'!
31
00:04:32,444 --> 00:04:34,515
Do we do it here?
32
00:04:35,789 --> 00:04:37,575
Why not'!
33
00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:50,213
Well? Let's get on with it
34
00:04:58,374 --> 00:05:01,605
Your manuscripts are there.
Please take them and go. Leave new. At once
35
00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,420
You shit!
- Via! Do not return
36
00:05:05,854 --> 00:05:07,743
You rotten shit!
- Via!
37
00:05:09,865 --> 00:05:13,415
You see how it was. I would have liked her-
just then, yes, more than ever
38
00:05:13,945 --> 00:05:15,834
But I wanted nothing petty
39
00:05:16,986 --> 00:05:20,809
My quarrel now was not with Mozart - it was through him
40
00:05:22,207 --> 00:05:29,557
Through him to God who loved him so.
Amadeus! Amadeus!
41
00:05:31,309 --> 00:05:33,926
The next day, when Katherina Cavalieri
me for her lesson,
42
00:05:34,544 --> 00:05:40,187
I gave her the same halting speech about 'coins of
tenderness' - and I dubbed the girl La Generosa
43
00:05:41,512 --> 00:05:44,755
I regret that my invention in love,
as in art, has always been limited
44
00:05:46,225 --> 00:05:48,284
Fortunately Katherina found it sufficient
45
00:05:49,057 --> 00:05:52,368
She consumed twenty 'Nipples of Venus' -
kissed me with brandied breath -
46
00:05:53,173 --> 00:05:55,642
and slipped easily into my bed
47
00:06:20,556 --> 00:06:23,526
She remained there for many years as my mistress
behind my good wife's back -
48
00:06:24,339 --> 00:06:29,800
and I soon erased in sweat the sense of
his little body, the Creature's, preceding me
49
00:06:31,572 --> 00:06:34,200
So mum for my vow of sexual virtue
50
00:06:55,577 --> 00:07:00,811
That same evening I went to the Palace and resigned
from all my committees to help the lot of poor musicians
51
00:07:01,885 --> 00:07:03,922
So much for my vow of social virtue
52
00:07:19,485 --> 00:07:24,878
Then I went to the Emperor and recommended a man of
no talent whatever to instruct the Princess Elizabeth
53
00:07:25,702 --> 00:07:28,808
Herr Summer. A dull man, surely? What of Mozart?
54
00:07:29,353 --> 00:07:34,757
Majesty, I cannot with a dear conscience recommend
Mozart to teach Royalty. One hears too many tales
55
00:07:35,310 --> 00:07:36,516
They may be just gossip
56
00:07:37,119 --> 00:07:40,931
One of them I regret relates to a protégé
of my own. A very young singer
57
00:07:42,232 --> 00:07:45,145
Charmant!
- Not pleasant, Majesty, but true
58
00:07:45,729 --> 00:07:49,927
I see... Well. Let it be Herr Sommer, then.
I daresay he can't do much harm
59
00:07:50,939 --> 00:07:54,842
To be frank, no one can do mum harm
musically to the Princess Elizabeth
60
00:07:55,581 --> 00:07:57,140
Majesty!
61
00:07:57,607 --> 00:08:01,237
Mozart certainly did not suspect me.
The Emperor made the announcement in the usual way-
62
00:08:02,050 --> 00:08:03,654
Well, there it is
63
00:08:10,649 --> 00:08:12,367
- and I commiserated with the loser
64
00:08:12,898 --> 00:08:17,040
It's my own fault. My father always writes
I should be more obedient. Know my place!
65
00:08:17,759 --> 00:08:19,773
He'll send me sixteen lectures when he hears of this
66
00:08:20,177 --> 00:08:22,498
It was a most serious loss
as far as Mozart was concerned
67
00:08:22,946 --> 00:08:24,653
His list of pupils hardly moves
- Six at most
68
00:08:24,993 --> 00:08:26,245
And now a mild to keep!
- A boy
69
00:08:26,521 --> 00:08:31,186
Poor fellow. I, by contrast, prospered.
This is the extraordinary truth
70
00:08:31,879 --> 00:08:35,941
If I had expected fury from God - none came. None!
71
00:08:36,666 --> 00:08:42,605
Instead - inuedibly-in '84 and '85 I came to be
considered as infinitely the superior composer
72
00:08:43,387 --> 00:08:47,392
My operas were played everywhere
and saluted by everyone
73
00:09:05,886 --> 00:09:08,127
Stupendous reception!
- The plaudits shake the roof!
74
00:09:08,507 --> 00:09:10,657
Your name sounds throughout the Empire!
- Throughout all Europe!
75
00:09:11,152 --> 00:09:15,806
It was incomprehensible. Almost as if I were
being pushed deliberately from triumph to triumph
76
00:09:16,653 --> 00:09:21,363
I filled my head with golden opinions-
and my house with golden furniture
77
00:10:09,049 --> 00:10:12,986
My own taste was for plain things - but I denied it
78
00:10:15,207 --> 00:10:18,051
The successful lived with gold, and so would I
79
00:10:27,418 --> 00:10:30,046
I grew confident. I grew resplendent
80
00:10:30,494 --> 00:10:35,557
I gave salons and soirees, and worshipped
the season round at the altar of Sophistication
81
00:10:37,574 --> 00:10:40,600
Mozart heard your comedy last night
- He spoke of it to Princess Lichnowsky
82
00:10:41,177 --> 00:10:45,922
He said you should be made to dean up your own mess
- Really? What manners these Salzburgers are!
83
00:10:46,381 --> 00:10:47,394
People are outraged by him
84
00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:49,996
He empties drawing-rooms.
Now Van Swieten is angry with him
85
00:10:50,863 --> 00:10:53,070
Lord Fugue? I thought he was the Baron's little pet
86
00:10:53,596 --> 00:10:57,282
Mozart has asked leave to write an Italian opera
- Italian Opera! Threat! My kingdom!
87
00:10:57,707 --> 00:10:59,869
And the Baron is scandalized
- Why? What is the theme of it?
88
00:11:00,507 --> 00:11:05,695
Figaro! The Marriage of Figaro!
That disgraceful play of Beaumarchais!
89
00:11:07,039 --> 00:11:11,613
That's all he can find to waste his talent on:
a vulgar farce!
90
00:11:12,816 --> 00:11:15,740
Noblemen lusting after chumbermaids!
91
00:11:16,956 --> 00:11:21,871
Their wives dressing up in stupid disguises
anyone could penetrate in a second!
92
00:11:23,530 --> 00:11:27,319
When I reproved him,
he said I reminded him of his father
93
00:11:28,396 --> 00:11:32,287
I simply cannot imagine
why Mozart should want to set that rubbish!
94
00:11:33,045 --> 00:11:37,653
Because I want to do a piece about real people, Baron!
95
00:11:38,554 --> 00:11:45,597
And I want to set it in a real place! A Boudoir!-
because that to me is the most exciting place on earth
96
00:11:46,589 --> 00:11:50,731
Underclothes on the floor!
Sheets still warm from a woman's body!
97
00:11:51,504 --> 00:11:54,451
Even a pisspot brimming under the bed!
- Mozart!
98
00:11:54,857 --> 00:11:57,440
I want life, Baron. Not boring legends!
99
00:11:58,082 --> 00:12:01,666
Herr Salieri's recent Danaius was a legend
and that did not bore the French
100
00:12:02,090 --> 00:12:06,288
It is impossible to bore the French -
except with real life!
101
00:12:07,367 --> 00:12:14,228
I had assumed, now that you had joined our Brotherhood
of Masons, you would moose more elevated themes
102
00:12:14,656 --> 00:12:19,196
Oh elevated! Elevated!
The only thing a man should elevate is his doodle
103
00:12:19,532 --> 00:12:23,981
You are provoking, sir!
Has everything to be a joke with you?
104
00:12:24,547 --> 00:12:30,634
Excuse language, Baron, but really!
How can we go on forever with these gods and heroes?
105
00:12:31,356 --> 00:12:37,011
Because they go on forever - that's why.
They represent the eternal in us
106
00:12:38,429 --> 00:12:43,344
Opera is here to ennoble us, Mozart -
you and me just as well as the Emperor
107
00:12:44,139 --> 00:12:52,012
It is an aggrandizing art! It celebrates
the eternal in Man and ignores the ephemeral
108
00:12:52,741 --> 00:12:56,837
The goddess in Woman and not the laundress
109
00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,524
Well said, sir. Exactly!
- 'Oh, well said, sir. Exactly!'
110
00:13:02,963 --> 00:13:09,050
I don't understand you! You're all up on your perches,
but it doesn't hide your arseholes
111
00:13:10,885 --> 00:13:13,502
You don't give a shit about gods and heroes!
112
00:13:14,110 --> 00:13:21,164
If you are honest - each of you - which of you isn't
more at home with his hairdresser than Hercules?
113
00:13:22,719 --> 00:13:26,496
Or Horatius? Or your stupid Danaius, come to that!
114
00:13:28,417 --> 00:13:32,206
Or mine - mine! - Idomeneo, King of Crete!
115
00:13:34,988 --> 00:13:41,837
All anguished antiques!
They're all bores! Bares, bores, bores!
116
00:13:42,709 --> 00:13:46,282
All serious opera written this century is boring!
117
00:13:51,254 --> 00:13:54,474
Look at us! Four gaping mouths
118
00:13:56,974 --> 00:14:00,012
A perfect Quartet! I'd love to write it -
119
00:14:01,429 --> 00:14:05,775
just this second of time, this now, just as you are
120
00:14:07,140 --> 00:14:10,986
Frau Chamberlain thinking 'Impertinent Mozart:
I must speak to the Emperor at once!'
121
00:14:12,862 --> 00:14:17,379
Herr Prefect thinking 'Ignorant Mozart:
debasing opera with his vulgarity!'
122
00:14:19,101 --> 00:14:24,062
Herr Court Composer thinking 'German Mozart:
what can he finally know about music?'
123
00:14:24,936 --> 00:14:26,802
And Herr Mozart himself, in the middle, thinking -
124
00:14:27,111 --> 00:14:31,890
'I'm just a good fellow.
Why do they all disapprove of me?'
125
00:14:33,527 --> 00:14:39,546
That is why opera is important, Baron.
Because it's realer than any play
126
00:14:40,967 --> 00:14:47,794
The dramatic poet would have put all those thoughts down
one after the other to represent this second of time
127
00:14:49,512 --> 00:14:53,085
The composer can put them all down at once -
128
00:14:55,718 --> 00:14:58,267
and still make us hear each of them
129
00:15:00,089 --> 00:15:04,105
Astonishing device: the Vocal Quartet
130
00:15:08,010 --> 00:15:10,206
I tell you I want to write a finale
lasting half an hour
131
00:15:11,595 --> 00:15:17,887
A quartet becoming a quintet becoming a sextet.
On and on, wider and wider-
132
00:15:18,325 --> 00:15:25,413
all sounds multiplying and rising together-
and together becoming a sound entirely new
133
00:15:28,195 --> 00:15:30,300
I bet that's how God hears the world
134
00:15:32,100 --> 00:15:37,595
Millions of sounds ascending at once
and mixing in His ear...
135
00:15:38,159 --> 00:15:41,083
...to become an unending music,
unimaginable to us
136
00:15:44,796 --> 00:15:51,008
That's our job! That is our job, we composers:
137
00:15:52,674 --> 00:15:56,144
to combine the inner minds
of him and her, and her and him -
138
00:15:56,572 --> 00:16:04,616
the thoughts of chambermaids and Court Composers -
and turn the audience into God
139
00:16:12,589 --> 00:16:17,823
Sorry. I talk nonsense all day long:
it's incurable - ask Stanzerl
140
00:16:18,395 --> 00:16:24,209
My tongue is stupid. My heart isn't
141
00:16:26,078 --> 00:16:31,699
No. You're a good fellow
under all your nonsense. I know that
142
00:16:32,460 --> 00:16:34,861
He'll make a fine new Brother, won't he, Salieri?
143
00:16:35,936 --> 00:16:37,358
Better than I, Baron
144
00:16:38,262 --> 00:16:43,962
Just try, my friend, to be more serious with your gifts
- OK...
145
00:16:48,525 --> 00:16:50,505
Buona fortuna, Mozart
- Grazie, Signore
146
00:16:50,882 --> 00:16:56,195
Stop frowning, Frau Chamberlain. I'm a jackass
147
00:16:57,745 --> 00:17:01,795
It's easy to be friends with a jackass:
just shake his hoof
148
00:17:03,947 --> 00:17:06,973
Hes-haw! Tell the Emperor the opera's finished
- Finished?
149
00:17:07,293 --> 00:17:09,045
Right here in my noddle.
The rest's just scribbling. Goodbye
150
00:17:09,935 --> 00:17:11,164
Good-day to you
151
00:17:12,700 --> 00:17:17,217
I'll make him proud of me... You'll see
152
00:17:23,689 --> 00:17:25,714
That young man really is...
- Very lively
153
00:17:27,318 --> 00:17:31,403
Intolerable. INTOLERABLE!
154
00:17:32,218 --> 00:17:35,153
How could I block it?
How could I stop this opera of Figaro?
155
00:17:35,667 --> 00:17:39,626
Incredible to hear, within six weeks
the Creature had completed the entire score
156
00:17:40,267 --> 00:17:43,350
Figaro is complete!
The first performance is on May the first
157
00:17:43,923 --> 00:17:45,550
Really? So soon?
- There's no way we can stop it
158
00:17:46,115 --> 00:17:48,834
I have an idea. Una piccola idea!
- What?
159
00:17:49,707 --> 00:17:52,620
Mi ha detto che c'è un balletto nel terzo atto?
- Si
160
00:17:53,211 --> 00:17:54,337
What is he saying?
161
00:17:54,839 --> 00:17:57,365
E dimmi - non è vero che I'Imperatore
ha proibito il balletto nelle sue opere?
162
00:17:57,753 --> 00:17:59,744
Un balletto... Ah
- Precisamente
163
00:18:00,117 --> 00:18:03,337
Oh, capisco! Ma che meraviglia! Perfetto!
Veramente ingegnoso!
164
00:18:03,592 --> 00:18:05,708
What is it? What is he suggesting?
- See him at the theatre
165
00:18:06,379 --> 00:18:10,964
Of course. Immediately. I'd forgotten.
You are brilliant, Court Composer
166
00:18:11,575 --> 00:18:13,293
I have said nothing
167
00:18:14,181 --> 00:18:16,309
I must tell you I resent this extremely
168
00:18:17,744 --> 00:18:22,261
Mozart is fight in some things. There is far too much
Italian chittero-chattero at this Court
169
00:18:23,859 --> 00:18:26,351
Now please to inform me at once, what was just said?
170
00:18:27,128 --> 00:18:31,110
Pazienza, my dear Chamberlain.
Pazienza. Just wait and see
171
00:18:34,293 --> 00:18:37,149
Mozart... Mozart!
- Yes, Herr Director
172
00:18:37,989 --> 00:18:40,287
A word with you, please. Right away
- Certainly. What is it?
173
00:18:41,168 --> 00:18:43,978
I would like to see your score of Figaro
- Oh yes. Why?
174
00:18:44,679 --> 00:18:47,148
Just bring it here to me. Into my hand, please
175
00:18:48,394 --> 00:18:53,855
Now tell me: did you know His Majesty
has expressly forbidden ballet in his operas?
176
00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:56,280
Ballet?
- Such as occurs in your third act
177
00:18:56,751 --> 00:18:59,880
That is not a ballet, Herr Director.
That is a dance as part of the wedding feast
178
00:19:00,670 --> 00:19:02,536
Exactly. A dance
179
00:19:03,084 --> 00:19:05,496
But the Emperor doesn't mean to prohibit dancing
when it's part of the story
180
00:19:06,453 --> 00:19:10,993
That law was made to prevent the insertion of stupid
ballet such as in French operas, and quite fight too
181
00:19:13,088 --> 00:19:17,366
It is not for you. Herr Mozart,
to interpret the Emperor's edicts. Merely to obey them
182
00:19:18,347 --> 00:19:20,133
What are you doing? What are you doing, Excellency?
183
00:19:21,656 --> 00:19:23,363
Taking out what should never have been put in
184
00:19:29,464 --> 00:19:33,116
Now, sir, perhaps in future
you will obey Imperial commands
185
00:19:33,660 --> 00:19:36,425
But - if all that goes -
there'll be a hole fight at the climax of the story
186
00:19:37,326 --> 00:19:40,648
Salieri! This Salieri's idea!
- Don't be absurd
187
00:19:41,374 --> 00:19:44,765
How did he know that? Nothing I had ever done
could possibly make him think of it on his own
188
00:19:45,416 --> 00:19:46,702
Had God given him the idea?
189
00:19:47,017 --> 00:19:50,100
It's a conspiracy. I can smell it. I can smell m
- Control yourself
190
00:19:50,519 --> 00:19:53,830
But what do you expect me to do?
The first performance is two days off!
191
00:19:54,782 --> 00:19:57,979
Write it over. That's your forte, is it not? -
writing at speed
192
00:19:58,307 --> 00:20:03,871
Not when the music's perfect!
Not when it's absolutely perfect just as it is!
193
00:20:04,436 --> 00:20:08,873
I shall appeal to the Emperor! I'll go to him myself!
I shall hold a rehearsal especially for him
194
00:20:09,768 --> 00:20:12,658
The Emperor does not attend rehearsals
- He'll attend this one
195
00:20:14,716 --> 00:20:18,766
You mark my words - he will come to this one!
Then he'll deal with you
196
00:20:21,107 --> 00:20:27,809
The issue is simple. Write your act again today -
or withdraw the opera. That's final
197
00:20:28,283 --> 00:20:30,001
You shit-pot
198
00:20:31,439 --> 00:20:36,229
Woppy, foppy, wet-arsed, Italian-loving shit-pot!
199
00:20:37,653 --> 00:20:43,706
Count Orsini-Rosenshit! Rosenclit! Rosencunt!
200
00:20:44,507 --> 00:20:49,502
I'll hold a rehearsal! You'll see!
The Emperor will come! You'll see! You'll see!
201
00:20:53,206 --> 00:20:58,474
I am forbidden! I am - forbidden!
But of course you already know that
202
00:20:59,279 --> 00:21:00,531
Know what'!
203
00:21:03,046 --> 00:21:04,241
No matter!
204
00:21:04,662 --> 00:21:08,223
Mozart, permit me. If you wish, I can speak
to the Emperor myself. Ask him to attend a rehearsal
205
00:21:08,916 --> 00:21:09,781
You wouldn't
206
00:21:10,184 --> 00:21:11,959
I cannot promise that he will come -
but I can certainly try
207
00:21:14,173 --> 00:21:16,631
Sir...
- Good-day to you. sir
208
00:21:19,496 --> 00:21:21,362
Needless to say I did nothing whatever in the matter
209
00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:27,623
Yet - to my total stupefaction - in the middle of
the last rehearsal of Figaro the very next day...
210
00:21:28,311 --> 00:21:32,009
Fetes and fireworks! Fetes and fireworks!
Gentlemen, good afternoon!
211
00:21:32,568 --> 00:21:34,753
Entirely against his usual practice,
the Emperor appeared
212
00:21:35,232 --> 00:21:39,237
I can't wak for this, Mozart, I assure you!
Je Prévois des merveilles!
213
00:21:39,632 --> 00:21:40,622
Majesty!
214
00:21:41,025 --> 00:21:44,552
What did this mean? Was this proof that God
had finally decided to defend Mozart against me?
215
00:21:45,289 --> 00:21:46,791
Was He engaging with me at last'!
216
00:21:47,291 --> 00:21:49,305
I am so grateful to you for this,
I can barely express it
217
00:21:49,846 --> 00:21:50,870
Hush. Say nothing
218
00:21:52,837 --> 00:21:54,862
One thing about the event
certainly seemed more than coincidence
219
00:21:55,474 --> 00:21:59,684
Strangely, His Majesty had appeared at precisely
the moment when the dancers would have begun,
220
00:22:00,305 --> 00:22:02,888
had not they and their music been entirely wt
221
00:22:36,428 --> 00:22:39,500
I don't understand. Is it modem?
222
00:22:40,988 --> 00:22:42,581
No, Majesty
- Then what'!
223
00:22:43,081 --> 00:22:45,914
The Herr Director has removed a dance
that would have occurred at this point
224
00:22:46,438 --> 00:22:47,382
Why was this done?
225
00:22:47,707 --> 00:22:49,596
It's your own regulation, Sire. No ballet in your opera
226
00:22:50,204 --> 00:22:55,335
This is not a ballet, Majesty. This is a dance as part
of a wedding feast: entirely necessary for the story
227
00:22:55,885 --> 00:22:58,582
Well, it certainly looks very odd the way it is.
I can't say I like it
228
00:22:59,090 --> 00:23:01,001
Nor do I, Majesty
- Do you like it, Rosenberg?
229
00:23:01,852 --> 00:23:04,332
It's not a question of liking. Majesty.
Your own law decrees it
230
00:23:04,966 --> 00:23:11,656
Yes. But all the same, this is nonsense.
Look at them: they're like waxworks up there
231
00:23:12,278 --> 00:23:15,066
Well, not exactly, Majesty
- I don't like waxworks
232
00:23:15,444 --> 00:23:18,800
Nor do I, Majesty
- Well, who would? What do you say, Salieri?
233
00:23:19,822 --> 00:23:22,359
Italians are fond of waxworks, Majesty
234
00:23:23,876 --> 00:23:26,538
Our religion is largely based upon them
235
00:23:28,652 --> 00:23:30,996
You are cattivo again, Court Composer
236
00:23:32,022 --> 00:23:33,820
Your Majesty, Count Rosenberg is very worried...
237
00:23:34,004 --> 00:23:36,985
...that if this music is put back
it will create the most unfortunate precedent
238
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,782
One will have thereafter
to endure hours of dancing in opera
239
00:23:41,264 --> 00:23:42,914
I think we can guard against that,
you know, Chamberlain
240
00:23:43,386 --> 00:23:45,787
I really think we can guard against hours of dancing
241
00:23:46,944 --> 00:23:49,732
Please restore Herr Mozart's music
- But Majesty, I must insist -
242
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:55,433
You will oblige me, Rosenberg!
I wish to hear Mozart's music. Do you understand me?
243
00:23:57,617 --> 00:23:59,312
Yes, Majesty
244
00:24:03,947 --> 00:24:05,949
Oh, Majesty! I thank you - I thank you -
245
00:24:06,279 --> 00:24:10,147
Yes, yes. A little less enthusiasm. I beg you!
- Excuse me
246
00:24:11,531 --> 00:24:13,181
Well. There it is
247
00:24:15,991 --> 00:24:18,494
And so Figaro was produced in spite of all my efforts
248
00:24:19,217 --> 00:24:22,733
I sat in my box on May the first, 1786.
and watched it happen
249
00:24:23,458 --> 00:24:27,929
A conspicuous defeat for me.
And yet I was strangely excited
250
00:25:05,982 --> 00:25:12,581
My march! My poor March of Welcome -
transformed by him to enchant the world forever!
251
00:25:13,506 --> 00:25:15,179
Almost in your style, that last bit
252
00:25:17,556 --> 00:25:20,105
But more vulgar of course.
Far more obvious than you would ever be
253
00:25:20,637 --> 00:25:21,968
Exactly!
254
00:25:22,395 --> 00:25:28,755
Trembling, I heard the second ad...
The restored third ad... The astounding fourth
255
00:25:30,533 --> 00:25:34,424
What shall I say to you who will one day
hear this last act for yourselves?
256
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:40,208
You will - because whatever else shall pass away,
this must remain
257
00:26:08,549 --> 00:26:11,371
The scene was night in a summer garden
258
00:26:11,944 --> 00:26:16,973
Pinprick stars gleamed down on shaking summerhouses.
Plotters glided behind pasteboard hedges
259
00:26:18,305 --> 00:26:20,205
I saw a woman, disguised in her maid's clothes,
260
00:26:20,752 --> 00:26:24,245
hear her husband utter the first
tender words he had offered her in years...
261
00:26:25,176 --> 00:26:28,680
...simply because he thinks she is her own servant
262
00:26:30,699 --> 00:26:36,684
Could one capture a realer moment'!
And how except in a net of pure artifice?
263
00:26:40,212 --> 00:26:45,025
The disguises of opera were invented for Mozart
264
00:26:47,690 --> 00:26:50,375
The final reconciliation melted sight
265
00:26:52,210 --> 00:26:56,215
Through my tears I saw the Emperor... yawn!
266
00:26:57,324 --> 00:26:59,520
Most ingenious, Mozart. You are coming along nicely
267
00:27:00,275 --> 00:27:04,985
I do think we must omit encores in future. It really
makes things far too long. Make a note, Rosenberg
268
00:27:05,787 --> 00:27:08,108
Majesty
- Gentlemen, goodnight. Strack, attend me
269
00:27:10,146 --> 00:27:11,511
Salieri!
- Yes?
270
00:27:12,133 --> 00:27:15,057
What do you mink?
Do you think I am 'coming along nicely?
271
00:27:23,847 --> 00:27:26,327
I think the piece is extraordinary
272
00:27:28,542 --> 00:27:33,287
I think it is marvellous. Yes
273
00:27:35,866 --> 00:27:45,025
I'll tell you what 't is.
It is the best opera ever written. That's what 't is
274
00:27:46,133 --> 00:27:48,727
And nobody else could have done it. Only me!
275
00:27:49,023 --> 00:27:50,491
Rosenberg is furious
- He'll never forgive Mozart
276
00:27:50,906 --> 00:27:52,021
He'll do anything to get back at him
277
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:58,386
So it was not hard to get the piece cancelled. I saw
to it through the person of the resentful Director...
278
00:27:58,828 --> 00:28:04,813
...that in the entire year Figaro was played only
nine times. My defeat finally turned into a victory
279
00:28:05,789 --> 00:28:09,305
And God's response to my challenge
remained as inscrutable as ever
280
00:28:10,259 --> 00:28:12,193
Was He taking any notice of me at all?
281
00:28:12,577 --> 00:28:15,979
Withdrawn! Absolutely no plans for is revival!
282
00:28:16,391 --> 00:28:17,665
I commiserate with you, my friend
283
00:28:17,991 --> 00:28:21,268
But when the public does not like one's work,
one has to accepl the fact gracefully
284
00:28:22,238 --> 00:28:23,421
And certainly they didn't
285
00:28:23,945 --> 00:28:24,958
It's too complicated
- Too tiresome!
286
00:28:25,296 --> 00:28:26,377
All those morbid harmonies!
287
00:28:26,793 --> 00:28:28,454
And never a good bang at the end of songs
so you know when to clap!
288
00:28:30,905 --> 00:28:34,079
Obviously I would not need to campaign too hard
against his operas in future
289
00:28:34,911 --> 00:28:37,130
I must concentrate on the man
290
00:28:38,169 --> 00:28:42,891
I decided to spend as much with him as possible:
to learn everything I could of his weaknesses
291
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,262
I'll go to England.
England loves music. That's the answer!
292
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:51,183
We were yet again in the library
of the Baroness Waldstädten:
293
00:28:51,942 --> 00:28:54,821
that room fated to be the scene
of ghastly encounters between us
294
00:28:56,164 --> 00:28:58,974
Again, too, the compensating crema al mascarpone
295
00:29:00,563 --> 00:29:05,569
I was there when I was a boy. They absolutely adored me.
I had more kisses than you've had cakes!
296
00:29:06,259 --> 00:29:08,102
When I was a mild, people loved me
297
00:29:08,655 --> 00:29:11,590
Perhaps they will again.
Why don't you go to London and try?
298
00:29:11,971 --> 00:29:13,484
Because I have a wife and mild and no money
299
00:29:14,101 --> 00:29:18,584
I wrote to Papa to ask him to take the boy off my hands
just for a few months so I could go - but he refused
300
00:29:19,341 --> 00:29:20,718
He's a very bitter man, of course
301
00:29:21,228 --> 00:29:23,925
After he'd finished showing me off around Europe
he never went anywhere himself
302
00:29:24,445 --> 00:29:30,043
He just sat up in Salzburg year after year,
kissing the ring of the Fartbishop and lecturing me
303
00:29:30,755 --> 00:29:33,087
The real thing is, you see, he's jealous
304
00:29:34,172 --> 00:29:38,666
Under everything he's jealous of me.
He'll never forgive me for being cleverer than he is
305
00:29:39,253 --> 00:29:47,377
I'll tell you a secret. Leopold Mozart is just
a jealous, dried-up old turd. And I actually detest him
306
00:29:48,023 --> 00:29:51,357
Leopold Mozart -
- Leopold Mozart is dead
307
00:29:55,053 --> 00:29:58,057
Do not despair, my friend. Death is inevitable
308
00:29:58,692 --> 00:29:59,739
How will I go now?
309
00:30:00,026 --> 00:30:02,290
How do you mean?
- In the world. There's no one else
310
00:30:03,501 --> 00:30:06,971
There's no one else who can see
the wickedness all around. I can't see it!
311
00:30:08,007 --> 00:30:10,874
He watched for me year after year - and I betrayed him
312
00:30:11,134 --> 00:30:12,545
No!
- I talked against him
313
00:30:12,917 --> 00:30:16,285
I married where he begged me not.
I danced and played billiards and fooled about,
314
00:30:16,668 --> 00:30:20,901
and he just sat there night after night
in an empty house, with no woman to re for him
315
00:30:21,351 --> 00:30:25,185
Wolfgang. My dear Wolfgang. Do not accuse yourself
316
00:30:27,788 --> 00:30:29,244
Lean upon me, if you care to
317
00:30:32,056 --> 00:30:34,354
Lean upon me
- Papa!
318
00:30:36,521 --> 00:30:40,412
So rose the Ghost Father
in his next opera, Don Giovanni
319
00:30:47,609 --> 00:30:50,180
A Father more accusing than any in opera
320
00:31:10,411 --> 00:31:13,494
So rose the figure of a Guilty Libertine,
cast into Hell
321
00:31:14,154 --> 00:31:17,590
I looked on astounded
as from his ordinary life he made his an
322
00:31:18,925 --> 00:31:20,415
We were both ordinary men, he and I
323
00:31:20,916 --> 00:31:27,344
Yet he from the ordinary created legends -
and I from legends created only the ordinary
324
00:31:29,463 --> 00:31:33,184
Could I not have stopped my war? Shown him some pity?
325
00:31:34,473 --> 00:31:41,209
Yes, my friends, of course, at any time -
if He above had shown me one drop of it
326
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:46,331
Every day I set to work I prayed -
I still prayed, you understand -
327
00:31:47,267 --> 00:31:52,785
'Make this one good in my ears!
Just one! One!' But would He ever?
328
00:31:53,845 --> 00:31:59,614
I heard my music calmed in convention -
not one breath of spirit to lift it off the shallows
329
00:32:00,689 --> 00:32:02,680
And I heard his-month after month -
330
00:32:03,394 --> 00:32:06,386
- the spirit singing through it
unstoppable to my ears alone
331
00:32:08,784 --> 00:32:13,472
I saw his comedy of the seduction of two sisters,
Così Fan Tutte: 'Thus do all women'
332
00:32:14,820 --> 00:32:19,963
Costanze and Aloysia immortalized -
two average girls transformed into divinities,
333
00:32:21,093 --> 00:32:24,006
their sounds of surrender
sweeter than the psalms of Heaven
334
00:32:31,657 --> 00:32:36,720
Grant this to me!... Grant this to me!
335
00:32:38,524 --> 00:32:48,024
'No, I do not need you, Salieri!
I have Mozart! Better for you to be silent!'
336
00:33:24,577 --> 00:33:26,432
I had to stop him. But how?
337
00:33:30,499 --> 00:33:36,302
Destitution! Reduce the man to destitution.
Starve out the God
338
00:33:37,904 --> 00:33:41,738
How do you fare today?
- Badly. I have no money, and no prospect of any
339
00:33:42,270 --> 00:33:43,772
It would not be too hard, surely
340
00:33:44,125 --> 00:33:46,355
We must find him a Post
- One danger! The Emperor
341
00:33:47,795 --> 00:33:50,935
Majesty. I'm afraid there's
nothing available at the moment
342
00:33:51,541 --> 00:33:53,646
There's Chamber Composer now that Gluck is dead
343
00:33:54,180 --> 00:33:56,035
Mozart to follow Gluck?
344
00:33:56,403 --> 00:34:00,636
I won't have him say I drove him away.
You know what a tongue he has
345
00:34:01,232 --> 00:34:07,114
Then grant him Gluck's post, Majesty,
but not his salary. That would be wrong
346
00:34:09,156 --> 00:34:13,764
Gluck got two thousand florins a year.
What should Mozart get?
347
00:34:14,653 --> 00:34:19,432
Two hundred. Light payment, yes, but for light duties
348
00:34:21,178 --> 00:34:23,840
Perfectly fair. I'm obliged to you. Court Composer
- Majesty
349
00:34:30,171 --> 00:34:35,171
Easily done. Like most men obsessed with being thought
generous, the Emperor Joseph was quintessentially mean
350
00:34:40,992 --> 00:34:43,256
Mozart. Vous nous faites honneur!
351
00:34:46,019 --> 00:34:49,592
It's a damned insult!
Not enough to keep a mouse in cheese for a week!
352
00:34:49,989 --> 00:34:51,525
Regard it as a token, mm Herr
353
00:34:52,014 --> 00:34:54,506
When I was young they gave me snuff-boxes.
Now it's tokens!
354
00:34:55,386 --> 00:34:59,539
And for what? Pom-pom, for fireworks!
Twang-twang for contredanzes!
355
00:35:00,055 --> 00:35:05,562
I'm sorry it has made you so upset. I'd not have
suggested it if I'd known you'd be so distressed
356
00:35:07,896 --> 00:35:09,478
You suggested it?
357
00:35:09,935 --> 00:35:14,554
I only regret that I was not able to do more
358
00:35:18,879 --> 00:35:22,702
Oh, forgive me! You are a good man! I can see that now
359
00:35:23,310 --> 00:35:26,211
You are a truly kind man - and I'm a monstrous fool
360
00:35:26,758 --> 00:35:29,693
No...
- You shame me. You excellent man!
361
00:35:30,713 --> 00:35:34,468
No, no, no, please - s'il vous plaît.
A little less enthusiasm, ha?
362
00:35:39,191 --> 00:35:40,864
Wolfgang! What's wrong?
363
00:35:42,316 --> 00:35:44,785
I have cramps in my stomach sometimes
364
00:35:46,221 --> 00:35:49,327
I'm sorry
- Excuse me... it's nothing really
365
00:35:50,066 --> 00:35:51,943
I will see you soon again?
- Of course
366
00:35:53,493 --> 00:35:55,427
Why not come and visit me?
367
00:35:57,159 --> 00:35:59,366
I will... I promise!
- Bane
368
00:36:00,134 --> 00:36:05,379
Bane
- My friend. My new friend
369
00:36:22,029 --> 00:36:26,785
Now if ever was the moment for God to crush me.
I waited - and do you know what happened?
370
00:36:27,850 --> 00:36:33,414
I had just mined Mozart's career at Court:
God rewarded me by granting me my dearest wish
371
00:36:34,357 --> 00:36:37,463
Kapellmeister Bonno -
- Kapellmeister Bonno is dead!
372
00:36:38,030 --> 00:36:39,498
You have been appointed -
- By Royal Decree -
373
00:36:39,837 --> 00:36:40,736
- to fill his place
374
00:36:41,099 --> 00:36:43,682
First Royal and Imperial Kapellmeister to our Court
375
00:36:46,260 --> 00:36:48,308
Bravo!
- Evviva, Salieri!
376
00:36:48,692 --> 00:36:50,330
Well done, Salieri!
- Dear Salieri
377
00:36:52,249 --> 00:36:53,944
Well, there it is
378
00:36:55,592 --> 00:36:58,357
I was now truly alarmed. How long would I go unpunished?
379
00:36:58,972 --> 00:37:00,838
Mozart looks appalling
- It must be galling of course
380
00:37:01,094 --> 00:37:03,062
I hear he's dosing himself constantly with medicine
381
00:37:03,382 --> 00:37:05,043
For what'!
- Envy, I imagine
382
00:37:05,718 --> 00:37:07,823
I saw him next in the Prater
383
00:37:18,131 --> 00:37:19,621
Congratulations, sir!
384
00:37:20,443 --> 00:37:23,640
Oh! Thank you. Thank you. And to you both!
385
00:37:25,070 --> 00:37:26,435
Clearly there was a change for the worse
386
00:37:26,862 --> 00:37:29,126
His eyes gleamed, oddly,
like a dog's when the light catches
387
00:37:30,132 --> 00:37:34,137
I hear you are not well, my friend
- I'm not. My pains stay with me
388
00:37:34,801 --> 00:37:39,602
How wretched. What can they be?
- Also, I sleep badly. I have bad dreams
389
00:37:40,209 --> 00:37:41,324
Wolferl!
- Dreams?
390
00:37:41,741 --> 00:37:47,669
Always the same one...
A figure comes to me cloaked in grey-doing this
391
00:37:48,489 --> 00:37:52,517
It has no face. Just grey - like a mask.
What can it mean, do you think?
392
00:37:53,173 --> 00:37:54,755
Surely you do not believe in dreams?
393
00:37:55,586 --> 00:37:59,409
No of course not - really!
- Surely you do not, Madame?
394
00:38:01,254 --> 00:38:03,996
I never dream, sir.
Things are unpleasant enough to me awake
395
00:38:05,926 --> 00:38:07,212
It's all fancy, of course
396
00:38:07,572 --> 00:38:10,325
If Wolfgang had proper work he might dream less,
First Kapellmeister
397
00:38:10,736 --> 00:38:12,215
Stanzi!
398
00:38:14,235 --> 00:38:19,082
Excuse us. We are well enough, thank you.
Come, dearest
399
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:24,777
He's growing freakish
- No question
400
00:38:25,154 --> 00:38:26,201
Grey figures with no faces!
401
00:38:26,549 --> 00:38:30,645
He broods too much on his father, I fancy.
And his circumstances make him anxious
402
00:38:31,074 --> 00:38:33,725
They've moved house again
- To the Rauhensteingasse. Number 970
403
00:38:34,017 --> 00:38:35,576
They must be desperate
- It's a real slum
404
00:38:36,015 --> 00:38:38,177
Does he make any money at all, apart from his Post'!
405
00:38:38,462 --> 00:38:40,499
Nothing whatsoever
- I hear he's starting to beg
406
00:38:40,866 --> 00:38:43,358
They say he's written to twenty Brother Masons
- Really?
407
00:38:44,434 --> 00:38:45,742
And they're giving him money
408
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,531
Of course! They would
409
00:38:49,985 --> 00:38:55,446
I had forgotten the Masons!
Naturally they would relieve him - how stupid of me
410
00:38:56,839 --> 00:38:59,718
There could be no finally starving him
with the Masons there to help
411
00:39:00,611 --> 00:39:05,321
As long as he asked they would keep supplying his wants.
How could I stop it? And quickly!
412
00:39:07,054 --> 00:39:09,386
Lord Fugue is most displeased with him
413
00:39:11,847 --> 00:39:13,645
Is he?
414
00:39:31,415 --> 00:39:36,444
This is not good, Brother.
The Lodge was not created for you to beg from
415
00:39:36,907 --> 00:39:39,888
What do you expect me to do?
- Give concerts, as you used to do
416
00:39:40,355 --> 00:39:43,325
I have no subscribers left, Baron.
I am no longer fashionable
417
00:39:43,708 --> 00:39:49,545
I am not surprised. You write tasteless comedies
which give offence. I've warned you, often enough
418
00:39:50,140 --> 00:39:51,198
You have. I admit it
419
00:39:53,753 --> 00:40:00,853
I will send you some fugues of Bach tomorrow.
You can arrange those for my Sunday Concert
420
00:40:02,276 --> 00:40:06,281
You shall have a small fee
- Oh, thank you, Baron
421
00:40:09,225 --> 00:40:10,875
I cannot live by arranging Bach!
422
00:40:11,660 --> 00:40:12,638
A generous fellow
423
00:40:13,070 --> 00:40:15,664
All the same, I'll have to do it. If he were
to turn the Lodge against me, I'd be finished
424
00:40:16,266 --> 00:40:18,348
My Brother Masons virtually keep me now
425
00:40:19,006 --> 00:40:22,465
Never mind. I'll manage: you'll see!
Things are looking up already
426
00:40:23,204 --> 00:40:26,731
I've had a marvellous proposal from Schikaneder.
He's a new Member of this Lodge
427
00:40:27,288 --> 00:40:29,905
Schikaneder? The actor?
- Yes. He owns a theatre in the suburbs
428
00:40:30,872 --> 00:40:34,991
Well, more of a music-hall, surely?
- Yes. He wants me to write a Vaudeville
429
00:40:35,690 --> 00:40:38,523
Something for ordinary German people.
Isn't that a wonderful idea?
430
00:40:39,313 --> 00:40:42,248
He's offered me half the receipts when we open
- Nothing in advance?
431
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:47,823
He said he couldn't afford it.
I know it's not much of an offer
432
00:40:48,413 --> 00:40:52,384
But a popular piece about Brotherly Love
could celebrate everything we believe in as Masons
433
00:40:52,944 --> 00:40:55,686
It certainly could. Why not put the Masons into it?
434
00:40:56,471 --> 00:41:01,090
Into an opera? I couldn't! All the same -what an idea!
435
00:41:01,618 --> 00:41:03,643
Our rituals are secret, Wolfgang
436
00:41:04,034 --> 00:41:06,924
I needn't copy them exactly. I could adapt them a little
437
00:41:07,419 --> 00:41:08,818
It would certainly be in a good cause
438
00:41:09,155 --> 00:41:11,305
Brotherly Love!
- Brotherly Love!
439
00:41:12,224 --> 00:41:14,977
Take courage, Wolfgang. This is a glorious idea
440
00:41:15,333 --> 00:41:16,880
It is. It really is, isn't it?
441
00:41:17,377 --> 00:41:19,789
Of course say nothing till it's done
- Not a word
442
00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:21,639
Secret!
- Secret!
443
00:41:21,844 --> 00:41:23,312
Good
444
00:41:25,690 --> 00:41:28,296
And if that did not finish him off
with the Masons-nothing would
445
00:42:04,925 --> 00:42:06,905
Mozart is pleased with himself
- He's writing a secret opera
446
00:42:07,268 --> 00:42:09,236
And won't tell anyone is theme
- It's really tiresome
447
00:42:09,708 --> 00:42:11,802
He told me. He told me everything
448
00:42:12,365 --> 00:42:17,565
Initiation ceremonies. Ceremonies with blindfolds.
All rituals copied from the Masons
449
00:42:18,721 --> 00:42:22,533
He sat at home preparing his own destuction.
A home where life grew daily more grim
450
00:42:23,205 --> 00:42:28,803
I'm cold. I'm cold all day.
Hardly surprising since we have no firewood
451
00:42:29,429 --> 00:42:32,967
Papa was right. We end exactly as he said. Beggars
452
00:42:33,548 --> 00:42:34,845
It's all his fault
453
00:42:35,491 --> 00:42:36,834
What do you mean?
454
00:42:37,213 --> 00:42:38,772
He kept you a baby all your life
455
00:42:39,471 --> 00:42:42,327
I don't understand. You always loved Papa
- I did?
456
00:42:42,750 --> 00:42:44,616
Yes, you adored him. You told me so often
457
00:42:45,062 --> 00:42:46,621
I hated him
458
00:42:49,017 --> 00:42:50,985
What'!
- And he hated me
459
00:42:53,672 --> 00:42:58,189
That's absurd. He loved us both.
You're being extremely silly new
460
00:42:58,740 --> 00:43:03,234
Am I?
- Yes, you are, little-wife-of-my-heart
461
00:43:08,792 --> 00:43:13,662
Do you remember the fire we had last night,
because it was so cold you couldn't get the ink wet?
462
00:43:14,852 --> 00:43:20,336
You said 'What a blaze' - remember?
'What a blaze! All those old papers going up!'
463
00:43:21,305 --> 00:43:24,912
Well, my dear, those old papers
were just your father's letters, that's all -
464
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:28,621
every one he wrote since the day we married
465
00:43:31,907 --> 00:43:34,365
What'!
- Every one
466
00:43:35,657 --> 00:43:40,265
All the letters about what a ninny I am -
what a bad housekeeper I am! Every one!
467
00:43:42,966 --> 00:43:47,369
Stanzi!
- Shit on him! Shit on him!
468
00:43:50,154 --> 00:43:55,877
You bitch!
- At least he kept us warm! What else will do that?
469
00:43:57,693 --> 00:44:04,190
Perhaps we should dance! You love to dance, Wolferl -
let's dance! Dance to keep warm!
470
00:44:05,233 --> 00:44:08,783
Write me a contredanze, Mozart!
It's your job to write dances, isn't it?
471
00:44:09,707 --> 00:44:14,998
Non più andai, farfallone amoroso,
Notte e giorno d'intorno girando!
472
00:44:15,475 --> 00:44:24,793
Stop it! Stop it! Don't! Don't!... Don't, please
473
00:44:31,772 --> 00:44:38,007
Please... Stanzi-marini!
474
00:44:41,927 --> 00:44:42,302
Stanzi-marini-bini-gini!
475
00:44:42,744 --> 00:44:44,963
Look, here's a kiss! Where'd that come from?
Right out of that corner. Look, here's another one!
476
00:44:45,299 --> 00:44:47,131
Get off!
477
00:44:48,798 --> 00:44:51,813
I'm frightened, Stanzi
- I can't bear it. I can't bear much more of this
478
00:44:52,135 --> 00:44:53,341
Something awful's happening to me
479
00:44:53,691 --> 00:44:56,501
And the Figure... the Figure's like this now -
'Come here! Come here!'
480
00:44:56,892 --> 00:44:59,042
Its face still masked - invisible!
ll becomes realer and realer to me
481
00:44:59,295 --> 00:45:07,988
Stop it! Stop it. for God's sake!
It's me who's frightened... Me!
482
00:45:09,799 --> 00:45:14,214
You frighten me. If you go on like this
I will leave you. I swear it
483
00:45:14,991 --> 00:45:16,618
I mean it... I do
- Oh God...
484
00:45:18,604 --> 00:45:19,821
News!
- Suddenly!
485
00:45:20,354 --> 00:45:21,037
She's been delivered
- Unexpectedly
486
00:45:21,333 --> 00:45:22,084
Of a boy
- Poor little imp
487
00:45:22,337 --> 00:45:23,099
To be born to that couple
- In that room
488
00:45:23,382 --> 00:45:24,429
With that money
- And the father a baby himself
489
00:45:24,605 --> 00:45:25,447
And now I hear-
- Now I hear-
490
00:45:25,705 --> 00:45:26,797
Something else has happened
- Even stranger
491
00:45:29,043 --> 00:45:31,045
She's gone
- What do you mean?
492
00:45:31,332 --> 00:45:33,653
Stanzerl's gone away. Just for a while, she says
493
00:45:34,154 --> 00:45:38,887
She's taken the baby and gone to Baden. To the spa.
It will cost us the last of the money we have
494
00:45:39,312 --> 00:45:40,188
But why?
495
00:45:40,568 --> 00:45:44,118
She's right to go. It's my fault. She thinks I'm mad
496
00:45:44,844 --> 00:45:45,914
Surely not'!
497
00:45:46,521 --> 00:45:49,900
Perhaps I am. I think I am... Yes
- Wolfgang...
498
00:45:50,189 --> 00:45:55,582
Let me tell you this! Last night I saw
the Figure again -the figure in my dreams
499
00:45:56,289 --> 00:46:00,101
ll stood before my table, all in grey,
is face still grey, still masked
500
00:46:00,942 --> 00:46:03,627
But this time it spoke to me
501
00:46:05,671 --> 00:46:14,432
Wolfgang Mozart - you must now write a Requiem Mass.
Take up your pen and begin!'
502
00:46:14,910 --> 00:46:16,628
A Requiem? Who is this Requiem for?
503
00:46:17,046 --> 00:46:22,815
I asked Who has died?' It said,
'The work must be finished when you see me next'
504
00:46:23,460 --> 00:46:24,700
Then it turned and left the room
505
00:46:25,179 --> 00:46:28,262
This is morbid fancy, my friend
- It had the force of real things!
506
00:46:34,166 --> 00:46:37,124
To tell you the truth - I do not mow
whether it happened in my head or out of it
507
00:46:39,567 --> 00:46:47,031
No wonder Stanzerl has gone. I frightened her away...
And now she'll miss the vaudeville
508
00:46:47,684 --> 00:46:49,322
You mean it's finished? So soon?
509
00:46:49,745 --> 00:46:52,305
Oh yes - music is easy: it's marriage that's hard
510
00:46:53,736 --> 00:46:54,783
I long to see it!
511
00:46:55,092 --> 00:46:58,562
Would you come, truly? The theatre isn't grand.
No one from Court will be there
512
00:46:59,112 --> 00:47:03,333
Do you think any of that matters to me?
I would travel anywhere for a work by you
513
00:47:04,597 --> 00:47:07,749
I am no substitute for your wife -
but I know someone who could be
514
00:47:08,937 --> 00:47:09,495
Who?
515
00:47:09,917 --> 00:47:12,022
I'll tell you what - I'll bring Katherina.
That'll weer you up
516
00:47:12,458 --> 00:47:13,630
Katherina!
517
00:47:14,008 --> 00:47:16,249
If I remember correctly, you quite enjoyed her company
518
00:47:16,734 --> 00:47:19,726
Signora!
519
00:47:21,103 --> 00:47:24,380
So off to the suburbs we went -
our strange band of three
520
00:47:25,026 --> 00:47:26,664
The First Kapellmeister - sleek as a cat
521
00:47:27,126 --> 00:47:30,255
His mistress - now grown fat and feathered
like the great song-bird she'd become
522
00:47:31,018 --> 00:47:34,784
And demented Mozart - drunk on the cheap wine
which was new his constant habit
523
00:47:35,310 --> 00:47:38,951
You must be indulgent now.
This is my first piece of this kind
524
00:47:40,410 --> 00:47:46,133
We sat as he wished us to... amongst ordinary Germans
525
00:47:48,809 --> 00:47:51,722
The smell of sweat and sausage was almost annihilating
526
00:47:53,556 --> 00:47:57,277
This is exciting, isn't it
- Do you think so?
527
00:47:58,036 --> 00:48:03,634
Oh yes! This is exactly the crowd
we should be writing for. Not the dreary old Court
528
00:48:04,717 --> 00:48:06,663
As always - you lead the way
529
00:48:08,176 --> 00:48:10,463
And as always, he did
530
00:48:18,290 --> 00:48:20,713
My pungent neighbours
rolled on their benches at the jokes
531
00:48:21,513 --> 00:48:25,029
And I alone in their midst heard - The Magic Flute
532
00:50:57,290 --> 00:50:59,873
He had put the Masons into it fight enough - but how?
533
00:51:00,937 --> 00:51:05,909
He had turned them into an Order of Eternal Priests.
I heard voices calling out of ancient temples
534
00:51:07,081 --> 00:51:12,360
I saw a vast sun rise on a timeless land,
where animals danced and children floated
535
00:51:13,609 --> 00:51:18,604
And by its rays all the poisons we feed each other
drawn up and burnt away
536
00:51:19,891 --> 00:51:25,546
And in this sun - behold - I saw his father.
No more an accusing figure, but forgiving
537
00:51:26,503 --> 00:51:29,928
The Highest Priest of the Order -
his hand extended to the world in love
538
00:51:30,908 --> 00:51:34,629
Wolfgang feared Leopold no longer:
and a final Legend was born
539
00:51:38,779 --> 00:51:40,178
Oh, the sound -
540
00:51:42,782 --> 00:51:49,119
the sound of that new-found peace within him -
mocking my undiminished pain!
541
00:52:00,951 --> 00:52:10,463
There was the Magic Flute, there beside me:
Mozart the magic flute, and God the relentless player
542
00:52:19,265 --> 00:52:24,362
How long could he stand it, this Creature -
so frail, so palpably mortal?
543
00:52:25,808 --> 00:52:27,697
And what was this I was suddenly feeling?
544
00:52:29,974 --> 00:52:32,022
Could it be pity?
545
00:52:33,697 --> 00:52:34,801
Never!
546
00:52:35,144 --> 00:52:36,111
Mozart!
547
00:52:36,367 --> 00:52:40,008
Baron! You here! How wonderful of you to come!
- I had of course suggested it
548
00:52:40,546 --> 00:52:42,378
What have you done?
- Excellency?
549
00:52:42,905 --> 00:52:46,409
You have put our rituals into a vulgar show
- No, sir...
550
00:52:46,938 --> 00:52:49,600
They are plain for all to see! And to laugh at!
551
00:52:50,556 --> 00:52:52,684
You have betrayed the Order
- No!
552
00:52:53,153 --> 00:52:55,531
Baron, I must-
- Don't speak for him, Salieri
553
00:52:56,632 --> 00:53:02,127
You were ever a cruel vulgarian we hoped to mend.
Stupid, hopeless task!
554
00:53:02,926 --> 00:53:07,705
Now you are a betrayer as well.
I shall never forgive you. And depend upon it-
555
00:53:08,323 --> 00:53:15,218
I shall ensure that no Freemason or Person of
Distinction will do so in Vienna so long as I have life
556
00:53:15,779 --> 00:53:17,531
Baron, please, I must speak...
- No, sir! Leave alone
557
00:53:20,478 --> 00:53:25,996
I did not look for this reward, Mozart.
Never speak to me
558
00:53:31,509 --> 00:53:35,252
Wolfgang... My dear Wolfgang - all is not lost
559
00:53:36,804 --> 00:53:39,364
But of course it was!
560
00:53:41,542 --> 00:53:45,342
He was now broken. Ruined.
Shunned by all men of influence
561
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:47,895
He did not even get his half receipts from the opera
562
00:53:48,285 --> 00:53:50,253
Schikaneder pays him nothing
- Schikaneder cheats him
563
00:53:50,612 --> 00:53:52,114
Gives him enough for liquor
- And keeps all the rest
564
00:53:53,205 --> 00:53:54,912
I couldn't have planned it better myself
565
00:53:55,618 --> 00:53:56,972
And as for Mozart-
- The poor fellow -
566
00:53:57,392 --> 00:54:00,384
What about him? I've not heard from him in days.
What is he doing?
567
00:54:03,275 --> 00:54:05,004
We don't know
568
00:54:05,713 --> 00:54:07,818
He's become really odd, sir
- Turned dreadfully strange
569
00:54:08,283 --> 00:54:09,933
Stays in his apartment all day
- Bums his candle all night
570
00:54:10,389 --> 00:54:13,302
But appears over and over at his window
- Stares wildly down the street
571
00:54:13,735 --> 00:54:14,634
Twitching!
- Trembling!
572
00:54:14,940 --> 00:54:16,760
Like a man deeply disordered
- Or one driven out of his mind
573
00:54:18,039 --> 00:54:21,407
In fad, the rumour is, sir-
- The rumour is, sir-
574
00:54:21,870 --> 00:54:23,201
What? Say it!
575
00:54:24,695 --> 00:54:26,754
Our Wolfgang has lost his wits
576
00:54:28,688 --> 00:54:31,294
Was it possible? Could it be hue?
577
00:54:32,312 --> 00:54:36,704
Madness? I'd never thought of that -
him retreating into that terrible refuge
578
00:54:37,256 --> 00:54:42,558
Yet there would lie my victory.
Loss of wits must surely mean loss of talent!
579
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:48,175
Triumph surged up through me. He was disarmed at last!
580
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:54,385
And at the same moment me chill -
a deep-spreading chill
581
00:54:55,843 --> 00:54:58,767
Was this what I had actually done? Driven a man mad?
582
00:54:59,755 --> 00:55:04,625
I had to see. Know for myself.
Spy on him unseen - and quickly! I could not keep away
583
00:55:05,742 --> 00:55:09,406
And so it was, incredibly late
one freeing night in November 1791,
584
00:55:10,330 --> 00:55:14,631
I found myself hurrying secretly across the empty city,
under a churning sky and a hidden moon,
585
00:55:15,249 --> 00:55:18,105
seeking his lodgings where I had never been -
no notion what I might see
586
00:55:20,422 --> 00:55:23,380
There was my goal: that dingy alley,
the Rauhensteingasse
587
00:55:24,485 --> 00:55:25,907
Only one window alight, above me
588
00:55:27,152 --> 00:55:29,575
Stealthily I stationed myself to watch it
from the shadows below -
589
00:55:30,139 --> 00:55:33,507
but instantly, as if sensing me, he appeared
590
00:55:35,688 --> 00:55:39,807
A face drawn and distorted by fear,
staring straight down at my motionless figure
591
00:55:41,986 --> 00:55:47,550
A cry me faintly from behind the filthy glass,
and through it his mouth began shaping frenzied words:
592
00:55:48,357 --> 00:55:52,931
'More! More! More time! Time! Oh please!'
593
00:55:54,141 --> 00:55:56,155
I stood frozen in alarm -
and then suddenly, without warning,
594
00:55:57,277 --> 00:56:01,032
the moon sprang full out from behind a cloud,
and spilled its merciless light all down me
595
00:56:03,988 --> 00:56:09,427
He saw instantly who it was. And there was
nothing for it but to greet him - cheerfully
596
00:56:10,137 --> 00:56:14,267
Signore! How wonderful of you to come!
597
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:19,576
Come up, come up and join in the fun!
There's nothing to eat, not even a bun!
598
00:56:25,162 --> 00:56:33,263
And alas and alack, there's nothing to drink.
But bottles and bottles and bottles of ink!
599
00:56:34,183 --> 00:56:35,901
Ascend if you please!
600
00:56:36,658 --> 00:56:41,061
Will-less, I climbed his stairs with stone feet.
He was waiting at the top
601
00:56:44,088 --> 00:56:46,307
A thousand welcomes to you, sir
602
00:56:49,734 --> 00:56:54,786
Enter, if you please, the Palazzo Amadeo!
603
00:56:59,699 --> 00:57:02,225
Now for the first time I saw the place
to which I had consigned him
604
00:57:03,342 --> 00:57:08,599
A filthy chamber in total disorder.
Empty bottles everywhere - discarded linen -
605
00:57:09,001 --> 00:57:12,357
and across the floor
an inky pavement of fresh manuscripts,
606
00:57:12,914 --> 00:57:17,624
stirring in icy gusts from ill-fitting windows.
I knew at once what these must be
607
00:57:18,874 --> 00:57:24,244
Tell me, my friend - what are you doing here so late?
It is late, isn't it?
608
00:57:24,969 --> 00:57:28,155
I have come to see you. I've been concerned
609
00:57:30,379 --> 00:57:31,904
Surely you're not working at this hour?
610
00:57:32,585 --> 00:57:33,814
No, not really
611
00:57:34,298 --> 00:57:42,115
Then what's all this?
- Nothing! Just silliness... a new piece
612
00:57:42,862 --> 00:57:45,945
The Requiem! This is the Requiem - isn't it?
613
00:57:46,443 --> 00:57:53,327
I know. I know. It's stupid.
That Messenger isn't real - you told me
614
00:57:54,515 --> 00:57:58,418
All the same, there's no point
in taking chances, is there?
615
00:58:00,393 --> 00:58:04,387
If he came too soon, that Messenger,
and there was nothing for him, I'd look foolish
616
00:58:06,476 --> 00:58:09,969
Time was, I could have finished a Mass in a week
617
00:58:13,020 --> 00:58:20,154
Not any more. To be exam, I'm feeling very poorly
618
00:58:20,855 --> 00:58:22,448
My friend!
- It's true
619
00:58:24,251 --> 00:58:27,027
My body hurts all day-
620
00:58:29,094 --> 00:58:34,032
My joints, my head... And I know why
621
00:58:35,615 --> 00:58:37,674
I've been poisoned
- Poisoned?
622
00:58:38,063 --> 00:58:42,648
They say the Masons poison people who offend them.
I didn't say that!
623
00:58:46,767 --> 00:58:48,337
I'll tell you one thing, though
624
00:58:50,829 --> 00:58:53,912
If he comes too soon, that Messenger,
I'll tell him to his face:
625
00:58:54,308 --> 00:59:00,304
'Tell your master from me, if He takes me too quick,
there won't be a Mass - so there!'
626
00:59:01,177 --> 00:59:03,908
He can hiss at me all he likes
- My friend, what are you saying?
627
00:59:04,472 --> 00:59:09,285
Isn't it obvious? It's for me, that's all
628
00:59:09,753 --> 00:59:11,437
What is?
- The Mass...
629
00:59:11,848 --> 00:59:18,891
It's for me. For myself. I am to write my own!
630
00:59:23,464 --> 00:59:25,762
Why order a Requiem if nobody's going to die?
631
00:59:29,088 --> 00:59:33,889
You know, the worst thing is denying me proper time
632
00:59:36,327 --> 00:59:40,423
That really shames me. I've never done that before
in my life - offered unfinished work
633
00:59:45,049 --> 00:59:49,429
I wonder, sir, would you oblige me?
634
00:59:54,402 --> 00:59:58,930
Just take a look at it, just a page or two,
and tell me if it's worthy
635
00:59:59,742 --> 01:00:01,642
You see, I can't tell any more
636
01:00:04,568 --> 01:00:10,564
Everything's leaving me.
All the sounds: they're running away
637
01:00:13,869 --> 01:00:22,209
My hand is tired - it has written too much -
it can't catch the notes now
638
01:00:26,196 --> 01:00:30,793
The Kyrie's already finished -
you need only look at that
639
01:00:34,012 --> 01:00:39,974
Kyrie the first theme - Eleison the second:
both together make a double fugue
640
01:00:41,643 --> 01:00:43,520
My father would have approved of that at least
641
01:00:45,784 --> 01:00:53,885
He'd say, 'Only you, my boy.
Only you could have done this'
642
01:01:12,568 --> 01:01:15,333
Please...
643
01:01:45,590 --> 01:01:47,263
Oh, it began so well, my life
644
01:01:49,868 --> 01:01:54,567
Once the world was so full, so happy
645
01:01:56,542 --> 01:02:01,127
All the journeys-all the carriages-
all the rooms full of smiles
646
01:02:03,550 --> 01:02:11,708
Everybody smiled at me once -
the King at Schönbrunn, the Princess at Versailles
647
01:02:12,556 --> 01:02:15,787
All lit my way personally to the keyboard
648
01:02:18,900 --> 01:02:24,828
Papa bowing, bowing, bowing with such joy-
649
01:02:28,194 --> 01:02:33,712
'Chevalier Mozart, my miraculous son!'
650
01:02:36,365 --> 01:02:41,303
Why has it all gone? Was I so wicked?
651
01:02:42,662 --> 01:02:44,164
Why must I go?
652
01:02:49,875 --> 01:02:54,233
It's bad? It's bad, isn't it?
653
01:02:55,590 --> 01:03:00,448
Bad? It will help the ages to mourn
654
01:03:03,830 --> 01:03:08,381
Oh grazie. Grazie Signore!
655
01:03:09,082 --> 01:03:13,838
What could I say? In my shaking hands I held
a terrible contradiction that only Art can show
656
01:03:14,450 --> 01:03:18,853
Something immortal - stinking of death.
Indestructible - yet rotting
657
01:03:19,864 --> 01:03:21,946
I was suddenly seized by an overwhelming sense of honor
658
01:03:22,415 --> 01:03:23,780
I bless you, Signore
659
01:03:24,126 --> 01:03:28,097
Who was this for, this appalling music?
Not himself. Of course not himself!
660
01:03:28,703 --> 01:03:31,126
What need to mourn a man who will live for ever?
661
01:03:32,245 --> 01:03:38,082
I stood there - his despairing Mass sounding
over and over in my head is gigantic lamentation -
662
01:03:38,738 --> 01:03:41,025
and I knew absolutely who this was for
663
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:46,622
In ten years of unrelenting spite -
I had destroyed myself!
664
01:03:48,544 --> 01:03:51,741
And then -whatever feelings
still left uncorrupted in me rose up, crying:
665
01:03:53,327 --> 01:03:56,388
'End this! Before it is too late!'
666
01:03:56,847 --> 01:04:05,096
'Confess! Confess to him! Get from him
whatever Absolution he can possibly grant'
667
01:04:06,481 --> 01:04:12,318
'He - he alone! -the Creature you have broken.
How else can you live on after?'
668
01:04:13,875 --> 01:04:20,144
Wolfgang... you must hear me now
669
01:04:23,566 --> 01:04:25,307
You are right. You are poisoned. It is true
670
01:04:27,184 --> 01:04:28,731
What do you mean?
671
01:04:29,113 --> 01:04:34,552
By me! No one else. We are both poisoned. Together
672
01:04:38,003 --> 01:04:41,906
I don't understand
- I with you. And you with me
673
01:04:43,695 --> 01:04:51,159
I eat what God gives me. Dose after dose.
For all life! His poison!
674
01:04:52,383 --> 01:05:00,222
Eccomi. Antonio Salieri! Il tuo Nemico!
Il tuo Assassino! La tua Morte!
675
01:05:09,564 --> 01:05:14,070
Bravo! Bravissimo!
676
01:05:15,421 --> 01:05:17,708
Signore, I think perhaps you are a little tiddly?
677
01:05:18,165 --> 01:05:20,122
Wolfgang!
- You had some before you came, I...
678
01:05:23,697 --> 01:05:27,600
Wolfgang! Listen!
Listen, and understand what has been done to you
679
01:05:31,427 --> 01:05:36,308
Why are you being like this?
Why have you come here? What do you want?
680
01:05:37,024 --> 01:05:43,851
Don't you know at all what I have endured from you?
From the day you appeared I have lived in Hell
681
01:05:45,254 --> 01:05:48,815
What I did to you was nothing to what you did to me
682
01:05:49,627 --> 01:05:51,391
Stop this. I don't know what you're saying
683
01:05:51,820 --> 01:05:58,044
My God smiled - and permitted it!
Whatever I did - you would fill the world
684
01:05:59,471 --> 01:06:01,394
You left me with nothing!
685
01:06:02,727 --> 01:06:10,953
And He does not care, Amadeus. God does not care
686
01:06:12,932 --> 01:06:16,687
He cares nothing for whom He uses-
nothing for whom He denies
687
01:06:18,355 --> 01:06:22,212
We are equal in that at least
- Signore, stop this, please. You're frightening me
688
01:06:24,777 --> 01:06:29,777
Be merciful, therefore! Be merciful!
Show mercy - because we n!
689
01:06:41,437 --> 01:06:44,748
That is for us alone to do - us, not Him! He can't
690
01:06:46,330 --> 01:06:52,497
Grant me forgiveness, Wolfgang.
You have to! You must! You must!
691
01:06:55,105 --> 01:06:59,872
No... You go now! Go! This is stupid!
692
01:07:00,876 --> 01:07:06,815
Wolfgang? Wolfgang, hear me one last time!
I am begging you on my knees. Grant me Absolution
693
01:07:13,321 --> 01:07:20,512
For all my sins against you -
damages unnumbered - foul thoughts unnumbered -
694
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:25,185
endless injuries and endless wrongs-
absolve my wicked soul!
695
01:07:26,733 --> 01:07:29,930
L'Assoluzione! L'Assoluzione!
Dammi! Dammi... t'imploro!
696
01:07:31,366 --> 01:07:38,466
L'Assoluzione! Amadeus...
697
01:07:58,718 --> 01:08:02,359
Oragna figata fa...
698
01:08:05,721 --> 01:08:09,282
Marina gamina fa...
699
01:08:14,085 --> 01:08:22,334
Oragna figata fa,
Marina gamina fa...
700
01:08:59,562 --> 01:09:06,423
Reduce the man - reduce the God.
Behold my vow fulfilled
701
01:09:08,039 --> 01:09:12,852
The profoundest voice in the universe
reduced to a nursery tune
702
01:09:22,962 --> 01:09:24,805
Wolfi? I'm back
703
01:09:25,191 --> 01:09:26,773
Stanzi!
704
01:09:27,601 --> 01:09:31,105
Yes, my love! Lillie husband of my heart!
705
01:09:36,648 --> 01:09:41,666
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry...
706
01:09:43,942 --> 01:09:49,096
Oh, my dear one. Come with me.
Come now. There, mere...
707
01:09:49,786 --> 01:09:51,754
Salieri has killed me
708
01:09:52,416 --> 01:09:55,249
Yes, my dear
- He has. He told me
709
01:10:06,806 --> 01:10:09,912
They say he still tries to finish that Mass
710
01:10:12,736 --> 01:10:14,704
But little wife won't let him any more
711
01:10:20,182 --> 01:10:22,184
Can you hear me?
712
01:10:23,908 --> 01:10:28,812
Try to, Wolferl... Wolfi-polfi... Try to hear
713
01:10:35,536 --> 01:10:40,372
If I've been a bore - If I've nagged a bit about money,
it didn't mean anything
714
01:10:41,562 --> 01:10:45,942
It's only because I'm spoilt. You spoiled me, lovey
715
01:10:48,860 --> 01:10:53,195
Just don't leave us -
we wouldn't know what to do without you
716
01:10:54,901 --> 01:10:59,088
And you wouldn't know much either,
up in Heaven, without us, you sappy thing
717
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:02,185
You can't even carve your own meat wthout help
718
01:11:05,554 --> 01:11:08,262
I have looked after you. you must admit that
719
01:11:09,414 --> 01:11:12,748
And I've given you fun too - quite a lot really
720
01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:18,971
Are you listening?
721
01:11:27,394 --> 01:11:32,628
Know one thing. It was the best day of my life
when you married me
722
01:11:33,154 --> 01:11:36,647
And as long as I live
I will be the most honoured woman in the world
723
01:11:40,771 --> 01:11:42,421
Can you hear me?
724
01:12:23,323 --> 01:12:27,373
The Death Certificate said kidney failure,
hastened by exposure to cold
725
01:12:29,058 --> 01:12:34,963
Generous Lord Fugue paid for a paupers funeral.
Twenty corpses. An unmarked lime-pk
726
01:12:37,126 --> 01:12:40,084
What did I feel? PM!
727
01:12:41,527 --> 01:12:45,634
Pity - at last! - for the creature
I had helped to destroy
728
01:12:47,653 --> 01:12:55,344
I felt the pity my God can never feel.
I weakened God's flute to a thinness
729
01:12:56,677 --> 01:13:02,605
God blew - as He must - without cease.
The flute split in the mouth of His insatiable need
730
01:13:05,456 --> 01:13:10,474
And so I live on in the City of Musicians-
reverenced by all
731
01:13:11,944 --> 01:13:16,944
On and on and on and on...
for flirty-Mo years
732
01:13:26,535 --> 01:13:29,857
And slowly I understood the nature of God's punishment
733
01:13:30,651 --> 01:13:36,613
What had I asked for in that church as a boy?
Was it not fame? Well, now I had it
734
01:13:37,781 --> 01:13:41,137
I was to become - quite simply -
the most famous musician in Europe
735
01:13:42,229 --> 01:13:46,917
I was to be buried in fame!
Bricked up in fame! Embalmed in fame!
736
01:13:47,693 --> 01:13:53,063
This was my sentence: I must endure
thirty-two years of being called 'distinguished'...
737
01:13:53,714 --> 01:13:55,637
...by people incapable of distinguishing
738
01:13:57,284 --> 01:14:05,499
And when my nose had been rubbed in fame to vomiting -
receptions, awards, civic medals, and chains -
739
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:12,264
suddenly, His masterstroke!
It would all be taken from me, every scrap
740
01:14:16,908 --> 01:14:23,484
Mozart's music would sound everywhere -
and mine in no place on earth
741
01:14:45,623 --> 01:14:48,536
I must survive to see myself become... mind!
742
01:14:50,222 --> 01:14:53,920
Nemico dei Nemici! Dio implacabile!
743
01:15:30,032 --> 01:15:34,208
Dawn has come. I must release you
744
01:15:36,389 --> 01:15:39,450
One moment of violence and it's over
745
01:15:41,570 --> 01:15:46,570
You see, I cannot accept this.
To be sucked into oblivion - not even my name remembered
746
01:15:54,723 --> 01:16:00,981
No: I did not live on this earth
to become His joke for Eternity
747
01:16:02,933 --> 01:16:07,894
I have one trick left me - see how He takes it
748
01:16:12,973 --> 01:16:17,973
All this week I have been shouting about murder.
You heard me yourselves - do you remember?
749
01:16:25,188 --> 01:16:32,561
Perdonami, Mozart! Il tuo assassino ti chiede perdono!
750
01:16:34,492 --> 01:16:36,472
I did his deliberately
751
01:16:37,598 --> 01:16:40,966
My servants carried the news into the streets
- Salieri!
752
01:16:41,820 --> 01:16:46,280
And the streets repeated it to themselves
- Salient
753
01:16:46,839 --> 01:16:51,265
And now my name is on every tongue
754
01:16:53,173 --> 01:16:57,804
Vienna, City of Scandals,
has a scandal worthy of it at last
755
01:16:58,755 --> 01:17:00,792
Salieri! Assassin!
756
01:17:01,406 --> 01:17:04,751
Well, my friends, now they all will know for sure
757
01:17:05,902 --> 01:17:11,181
They will learn of my dreadful death -
and believe the lie forever
758
01:17:12,595 --> 01:17:20,901
After today, whenever men speak Mozart's name with love,
they will speak mine with loathing
759
01:17:22,754 --> 01:17:31,674
As his name grows in the world, so will mine -
if not in fame, then in infamy
760
01:17:34,192 --> 01:17:43,727
I'm going to be immortal after all! -
And He is powerless to prevent it
761
01:17:46,283 --> 01:17:52,199
So, Signore - see now if Man is mocked!
762
01:17:55,155 --> 01:18:00,696
Amici cari. I was born a pair of ears, and nothing more
763
01:18:02,686 --> 01:18:11,709
It is only through heating music that I know God exists.
Only through playing music that I could worship
764
01:18:13,603 --> 01:18:21,135
All around me men hunger for General Rights.
I hungered only for particular notes
765
01:18:23,272 --> 01:18:28,415
They seek Liberty for Mankind.
I sought only slavery for myself
766
01:18:30,299 --> 01:18:38,093
To be owned - ordered - and exhausted
by an Absolute: Music
767
01:18:41,215 --> 01:18:45,630
This was denied me - and with it all meaning
768
01:18:48,503 --> 01:18:51,177
Now I go to become a ghost myself
769
01:18:53,854 --> 01:18:59,736
I will stand in the shadows
when you come to this earth in your tums
770
01:19:02,643 --> 01:19:12,280
And when you feel the dreadful bite of your failures-
and hear the taunting of an uncaring, unattainable God -
771
01:19:13,271 --> 01:19:23,045
I will whisper my name to you:
'Antonio Salieri: Patron Saint of Mediocrities!'
772
01:19:25,515 --> 01:19:30,515
And in the depths of your downcastness
you can pray to me. And I will forgive you
773
01:19:45,156 --> 01:19:47,067
Vi saluto
774
01:20:12,090 --> 01:20:15,731
Salieri has cut his throat -
- but is still alive
775
01:20:17,611 --> 01:20:22,401
In the frenzy of his imagination he keeps claiming
that he is guilty of Mozart's death,
776
01:20:22,896 --> 01:20:24,455
and made away with him by poison
777
01:20:25,427 --> 01:20:30,831
A rambling of the mind believed in truth
by no one but the deluded old man himself
778
01:20:32,546 --> 01:20:34,583
I don't believe it
- I don't believe it
779
01:20:36,852 --> 01:20:38,672
No one believes it in the world!
780
01:20:46,835 --> 01:20:49,835
Mediocrities everywhere - new and to come -
I absolve you all. Amen!
74425
Can't find what you're looking for?
Get subtitles in any language from opensubtitles.com, and translate them here.
Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Cebuano
Chichewa
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Corsican
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Esperanto
Estonian
Finnish
French
Frisian
Galician
Georgian
German
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hawaiian
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Maltese
Maori
Mongolian
Myanmar (Burmese)
Nepali
Norwegian
Pashto
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Samoan
Serbian
Sesotho
Shona
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
