parties concerned. Salieri is, in fact, nice to everyone’s face. As several officials are conversing, Salieri comments to the audience on their personality. “Johann von Strack. Royal Chamberlain. A court official to his collar bone,” “Baron van Swieten. Prefect of the Imperial Library. Ardent Freemason. Yet to find anything funny...” (Amadeus, 11) Salieri continues to interject throughout the mens’ conversation until he is included. Salieri is jealous of Mozart’s musical ability. While it
his music. One particular composer who studied Bach’s work was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. According to Carol Talbeck’s “The J.S. Bach Connection,” Frederick the Great, the king of Prussia, introduced Baron Gottfried van Swieten to Johann Sebastian Bach’s music in the late eighteenth century. Van Swieten bought Bach’s manuscripts and shared them with Mozart when the two met on a trip to