The more I Listen to Salieri the more baffled as to why he is so overlooked . Sure , Mozart , like Bach , had that “divine spark” in much of his work that takes it to the heavens but the power , inventiveness and passion of Salieri makes me also want to weep with emotion at times. He may have churned stuff out at times and been a little uneven but this piece is an enormous achievement. I find the finale absolutely chills the blood - it’s magnificently terrifying and heartless -far more so than Mozarts Don Giovanni of three years later .
He and Gluck collaborated on this opera. Lasted almost 40 years in Paris….One of Salieri’s greatest achievements
No collaboration at all : Salieri merely took the score that had been intended for Gluck before his stroke .
The more I Listen to Salieri the more baffled as to why he is so overlooked .
Sure , Mozart , like Bach , had that “divine spark” in much of his work that takes it to the heavens but the power , inventiveness and passion of Salieri makes me also want to weep with emotion at times. He may have churned stuff out at times and been a little uneven but this piece is an enormous achievement.
I find the finale absolutely chills the blood - it’s magnificently terrifying and heartless -far more so than Mozarts Don Giovanni of three years later .
The beginning of Figaro's overture sounds a lot like the first subject of this one. The key as well.
I like it, even if it doesn't seem to know what it's up to. Maybe I just don't know what it's up to.
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no mediocrity at all!.. it could be mozart from hearing only
Way too formulaic. It's copy and paste. That's why it "works". Give me a Michael Haydn any day.
Terrible opinion
@@tinnose7363 This ouverture and the whole opera are masterworks. One must be deaf and blind not to see and hear it.