Amadeus

There are some differences that are between the movie and reality. In the play, only Baron van Swieten continues to support Mozart. Indeed, by the end of the play, Mozart is surviving solely because of the charity of his brother Masons. Finally, Salieri convinces Mozart to compose an opera based on the mythos of the Masons. As a result, Mozart produces the comedy Die Zauberflate. Van Swieten is horrified to see that Mozart has, in his opinion, parodied the venerated traditions of Freemasonry. He summarily removes Mozart from the Masons. Meanwhile, Mozart's partner in the production of Die Zauberflate, Emanuel Schikaneder, cheats Mozart out of most of his share of the ticket proceeds.
Now thoroughly destroyed and without recourse, Mozart simply wastes away and dies, still at work on his last work, Requiem.

Mozart's career came up into popularity very easily. Soon, he was known as the best keyboard player known. He also started writing operas and started becoming rich for his work. Pretty soon, he was known as thee best composer, but that caused conflicts, Antonio Salieri, who was famous also, but not as good as Mozart. He had a few accomplishments, but not as many as Mozart. He was jealous, and wanted Mozart to die so he could take over his piece. Because of all of his jealousy, he wanted to get to know Mozart, and to pretend to become friends, so he could get his last piece of music. Pretty soon, it was all worked out, and Mozart died and everything seemed tofall into place for Salieri. After everything went over, it all worked out by both of the composers becoming successful and happy after all.

The Baroque Period

Baroque music expresses order, the fundamental order of the universe. Yet it is always lively and tuneful. Music reflects the mood of the times, then as now as always.From the earliest times to the present day, with baroque music in historical context, the period has influenced many composers and artists through the years.
When we speak of music associated to the Baroque era we are actually speaking of music from a wide range of styles and geographical region. This music was composed during a period of 150 years. The term Baroque as applied to music is a more recent development, only acquiring currency in English in the 1940's. In the 1960's it was mostly described as to the result of lumping together such diverse music.

Baroque music was the basis for pedagogy and as a result retained a stylistic influence. It became an influence in the 19th century as a paragon of academic and formal purity. Many composers set a standard to aspire to from Bach's fugue style in music. In contemporary music there are many pieces being published as “rediscovered” Baroque such as a viola concerto written by Henri Casadesus but attributed to Handel. In addition many pieces have been termed as neo-Baroque for a focus on imitative polyphony.

Here is a picture of a Baroque Period theatre: