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Amadeus Movie Notes

Answer the following questions while watching the movie- Amadeus. Continue onto the backside of this sheet.

1. Where do we first see Salieri?

2. Who has come to see him? Why?

3. Which two instruments do we see Mozart playing as a child?

4. What is Salieris prayer?

5. What was Salieris position at the court in Vienna?

6. Which two languages were the possible choices for Mozarts first opera in Vienna?

7. Why was this new opera so outrageous and shocking?

8. Where was Salieri from?

9. When the Emperor is introduced to Mozarts fiance, he asks why they are not to be married yet. What
reason does Mozart give?

10. Who was Mozarts wife?

11. When Salieri sees the compositions that Mozarts wife brings in for review, what is he so surprised to
see?

12. How does Mozarts father defend his sons extravagant behaviour?

13. Describe the mask worn by Mozarts father.

14. Who later wore the same mask, and for what purpose?
15. How does Salieri find out what is going on in Mozarts household?

16. What part of the opera, The Marriage of Figaro, did Mozart have to remove?

17. What does the Emporer say about Salieris opera?

18. What did the men from Salzburg come to tell Mozart?

19. Mozart wrote his darkest opera as a result of what?

20. What is a Requiem?

21. Name three things that came out of the horses tail when Mozart took his son to see the opera.

22. When the masked man commissioned Mozart to write the requiem, he told him to write ____________
and tell ______________.

23. Salieris plan was to arrange Mozarts ________________ with a requiem played, and the requiem would
be composed by ________________.

24. When Constanza becomes ill, who gives her the money to go to the Spa?

25. Why does the maid want to quit working at Mozarts house?

26. Two people are singing on stage when Mozart is taken ill. What are they dressed as?

27. Long after his fathers death, Mozart shakes his fist at his fathers portrait one night when he is drunk.
What happens immediately he does this?

28. Explain how Mozart was buried? Why do you think this is so?

30. Was Mozart murdered? Defend your answer.