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The “Greatest Musical Diplomat” Antonio Salieri in a New Light

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Whenever the composer Antonio Salieri comes up in conversation or in writing, one immediately senses an elephant in the room—the indestructible rumour that he was Mozart’s murderer, a jealous rival of inferior talent who used poison to eliminate a genius from his path. All assertions to the contrary—be they from music historians or from Salieri himself, who was confronted with this legend even during his own lifetime—have been of no help, here. So what to do?