Did composer Salieri really try to swindle Mozart out of the Requiem like in the movie Amadeus?
No, composer Salieri didn’t really try to swindle Mozart out of the Requiem. As the screenwriter for the movie Amadeus Peter Shaffer puts it, “It’s a fantasia based on fact. It is not a screen biography of Mozart and was never intended to be.” Antonio Salieri was a contemporary of Mozart and admired his work very much. However w
