Anyone who knows the composer Antonio Salieri merely as a supposed rival of Mozart will have a chance to change this in 2025. In connection with the 200th anniversary of Salieri’s death and his upcoming 275th birthday, we take a fresh look here at the man whom we have to thank for today’s mdw. The following pages reveal how Salieri and Mozart actually collaborated with each other, why Salieri was also a passionate vocal pedagogue, just who among his female contemporaries played an important role, and the ways in which can indeed succeed in enabling such a famous historical personality to be perceived in new ways.
