The restored third act was bold, brilliant. The fourth... was astounding.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Keep it Majesty, if you want. It's already here in my head.Emperor Joseph II: What? On one hearing only?Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: I think so, Sire, yes.Emperor Joseph II: Show us.
He was my idol. Mozart, I can't think of a time when I didn't know his name. I was still playing childish games and he was playing music for kings and emperors. Even the Pope in Rome! I admit I was jealous when I heard the tales they told about him. Not of the brilliant little prodigy himself, but of his father, who had taught him everything.
Constanze Mozart: Wolfie, I think you really are going mad. You work like a slave for that idiot actor who won't give you a penny. And here, this is not a ghost! This is a real man who puts down real money. Why on earth won't you finish it? Can you give me one reason I can understand?Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: It's killing me.
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