That was Mozart. That! That giggling dirty-minded creature I had just seen, crawling on the floor!
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Nine performances! Nine, that's all it's had! And withdrawn!Antonio Salieri: I know, I know, it's outrageous. Still, if the public doesn't like one's work, one has to accept the fact gracefully.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: But what is it that they don't like?Antonio Salieri: I can speak for the Emperor. You make too many demands on the royal ear. The poor man can't concentrate for more than an hour... you gave him four.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: What did you think of it yourself? Did you like it at all?Antonio Salieri: I thought it was marvelous.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Of course! It's the best opera yet written, I know it... why didn't they come?Antonio Salieri: I think you overestimate our dear Viennese, my friend. You know you didn't even give them a good bang at the end of songs, to let them know when to clap?Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: I know, I know... maybe you should give me some lessons in that.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Confutatis maledictis" - when the wicked are confounded. "Flammis Acribus Adictis." How would you translate that?Antonio Salieri: Consigned to flames of woe.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Do you believe in it?Antonio Salieri: What?Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A fire which never dies, burning you forever?Antonio Salieri: Oh yes.