Skeptoid #213: Mozart and Salieri

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Paranormal, Urban Legends, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Conspiracy Theories, History, Science, Skeptic

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2010

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Shockingly, Hollywood movies don't make us all history experts, and Salieri didn't murder Mozart.

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0:00.0	I don't want to shock anyone, but sometimes Hollywood movies stretch the truth a bit for
0:08.9	dramatic effect.
0:09.9	Today, we're going to look at something everyone knows because it was in the movie Amadeus
0:16.0	that the composer Mozart was surreptitiously murdered by his rival Salieri.
0:22.8	Everyone knows it, but is it true?
0:26.0	Who's this movie the exception in that it might actually track real history?
0:31.0	Who we're going to find out right now, Unskeptoid.
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1:28.0	Mozart and Salieri.
1:31.0	The legend first entered the public consciousness in a significant way with the 1984 movie Amadeus.
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