One of the most memorable nights of my youth was when I saw "Amadeus" at the Senator Theater in Towson Md--(near Towson University) in 1984. I went with 5-6 other guys--ALL of us tripping balls!! We'd each dropped a couple of "Doonesberrys" (which was a primo-grade psychedelic--they were little stamp-size blotter papers with the "Doonesberry" comic strip characters on them) prior to the start of the film. The Senator is a grand Art Deco theater built in the late 1930's--and the glistening of the chandeliers hanging above us looked literally like shining diamonds!! The sound system was so powerful in our "heightened" state we actually felt like we were in Vienna watching everything live!! It was SUCH a beautiful and moving experience--I'll never forget it!! When the film ended everybody in the theater (and I'd bet 50% of the audience was in a similar "mind expanded" state) stood up and applauded for about 1-2 minutes. Unforgettable!!
That's a great memory to have. I, on the other hand, was only about 6 when it aired on TV. I think we had it on VHS as well at some stage. Obviously too young to grasp anything from it but I love the movie more now. Never once had any psychedelic in my life haha! The 80's were the best period for movies I think and I would have loved to have been in my teens then so I could watch my favourites in the cinema. Got to see some really good ones though in the 90's.
This scene sends a tingling feeling up my spine every time I see it! F Murray Abraham's portrayal of a character who discovers and recognizes the true divine nature of Mozart's music is pure genius. I love how the scene ends!
THANK YOU SO MUCH Mr MURRAY ABRAHAM for your wonderful acting; you literally make us taste the very substance of Mozart's Genius...thank you ( i ve also enjoyed your acting in SCARFACE ).Merci MONSIEUR.
sam dorsalis This is a GREAT comment! Pretty much sums up what I feel in this scene and the entire essence of this movie....thank you for a magnificent choice of words!
I'll never forget playing the middle movement of Mozart's 4th violin concerto for a recital. It filled me with exactly this longing. This is no exaggeration of his work.
It's true, after this movie you would expected he would have become the most famous of Hollywood stars. Problem is that maybe, when you give such an astounding performance nobody can really see you in other roles. Such a shame. I really love him.
The great thing about Peter Shaffer's play is that, although historically this is not a true story, it is full of breath taking musical comments. I have never read so heartfelt descriptions, they really put into words the emotions of listening to the 'Absolute beauty' (to quote the movie) of Mozart's music.
There are just no words to describe this performance, this whole movie....one could watch it 30 times and 30 times you'd be transported in time...simply magnificent!
The appreciation that I get every time @ 1:27 for allowing the single note of the Oboe to be delivered without comment is commended. The priest not hearing a single note, but rather a man's description of a tune...oh, how sad for the priest of not being able to hear what is being played in the mind of Selieri...forever haunting him till his last days...
Paul Schofield did an amazing version of the original and longer monologue of "The Voice of God" during a National Theatre Production of the stage play. The original monologue adds more depth to Salieri's pain and other deeper emotions about Mozart, the music and God.
I feel really bad for Salieri, he worked so hard to get literally from the bottom to the top. Then suddenly a younger one comes in and proves many times he does it with ease and is better than Salieri and then takes the entire stage. Imagine your pride sinking so low.
***** Yeah I know that, however the concept that the movie and play brought up intrigued me a lot. Made you rethink some things about pride, ego, and talent.
This is one of the most intense scenes for me...the priest hears nothing...rambling on from an old mad man...only invited to hear the words & expressions that is being told to him...and for us...we are placed into Salirie's memory...to witness ourselves...of the experience that he relives in torment...for the benefit of us.
i watch this scene many times. This scene is a masterpiece of cinematographie. agree with Milos Forman the hole movie is designed by Mozart's genius & music. F.Murray Abraham gives an sublime performance. He's a great talent. Thanks Milos. For your point of view..
This is my favorite scene from the movie... so much of the plot is fictionalized, but you can really imagine Salieri (and the rest of us!) thinking this, as we hear the miracle which is Mozart's music!
Tragically I can somewhat relate to Salieri's jealousy. You see, when I was a kid, starting around 6 years old, I just loved cartoons, the comic strip in the Sunday newspaper, and funny comic books. I just loved the artwork, plus the laughter they provided me. My favorite painter at the time was Norman Rockwell and the comic strip I most admired was Peanuts by Charles Schulz. As a result, I decided to try my hand at being a cartoonist. My very first efforts, when I tried to draw people, they were little more than stick figures. I could see how bad my artwork was when I compared them to the more professional art work in comic strips and comic books. But I wasn't discouraged. I thought that with more practice, some lessons, etc, over time I should improve. Over the following years I read every book on drawing and sketching I could get my hands on, took art lessons and drew my heart out. But it proved to be no good. 6 years later, when I was 12, my art hadn't improved. My drawings of people still resembled little more than stick figures. All those art lessons and all those books I read didn't help to make me a better artist. Instead, what it did do for me for better or for worse was give me the ability to better recognize good or great art when I see it. At age 12 I threw in the towel on my attempt to be a cartoonist. I would have loved to have my own popular comic strip that was well loved all over the world, like Charles Schulz's Peanuts (he made it look so easy!) But it was not to be. These days when I see a beautiful work of art such as a painting or a comic strip, if the artist is a grown man in his 30s, 40s, 50s, or even older, I don't feel jealousy whatsoever and I enjoy the artwork. But when I see a beautiful painting or drawing done by some 8-10 year old kid, I get huge pangs of jealousy and I ask myself, "why couldn't I have had just half of that kids talent when I was his age?"
Dude, if after working with every book you could put your hands on and taking numerous lessons you were still drawing “little more than stick figures”, there is definitely something wrong with you. Don’t compare yourself with Salieri. He was a genius in his own right, he just had bad luck in being alive at the same time Mozart was.
@Stoirelius I agree there was something wrong with me. Absolutely. After all those years of reading how to draw books, taking lessons, and drawing my heart out, I couldnt and didn't improve as an artist. I'm not comparing myself to Salieri artistic-wise. I'm comparing emotions in that I understand his jealousy. I was never nowhere near as good as an artist as he was, but I understand and sympathize with him in the reasons why he is jealous of Mozart.
I agree with you, Salieri did want to be like Mozart, I just feel that he wanted Mozart to be more like him in temperament....anyway, F. Murray Abraham was wonderful in the role of Salieri, his descriptions of the music sent shivers down my spine :)
@SIRJOSEPHPORTERKCB well, Beethoven wasn't born deaf. When he became deaf, he already knew what music would give this or that note, so he could hear the music in his head ;)
"On the page it looked nothing;the beginning ,simple,almost comic: just a pulse,bassoons,bassets horns,like a rusty squeeze box ...and then suddenly,high above it,an oboe, a single note, hanging there,unwavering,until a clarinet took it over,sweetened it into a phrase of such delight .This was no composition by a performing monkey,this was a music I had never heard ,filled with such longing , such unfullfillable longing, it seemed to me that I was hearing the VOICE OF GOD " Great monologue Divine acting Nothing else to say... ENJOY
@rhill54 the movie isn't intended to portray Mozart 100% but there apparently were aspects of his personality that were light-hearted and jokesterish, for lack of a better word. His life, in fact, was a bit more realistically tragic in the sense of seemingly constant debts and lack of sufficient funds and a lifelong struggle to secure an exceptionally court position that also paid exceptionally well etc.
This scene basically kickstarted my lifelong obsession with Mozart. Such powerfully moving tribute to Mozart's genius. :)
same
same here
Ditto.
I just got hooked yesterday never been into classical music I am now
I love how Salieri's pained envy was your inspiration to listen to his adversary.
This man is the greatest actor that has ever lived.
Okay Mr. Abraham. 😉
@@fornoreason8822 I wonder if he saw your reply almost 8 years later. :)
This is the best acted performance of all time
Tony Montana never trus him. He never liked him. For all he knew he had his friend Angel killed.
@@ronnie_5150 I saw your's almost 2 years later, now the real question is if you see mine?
God, how fucking good is this movie?! Incredible.
And how could it be directed by the same guy who did the horrendous Goya's ghosts?
"Serenade for winds" K 361, 3rd movement
Mozart = the sound of perfection
thank you!! :)
One of the most memorable nights of my youth was when I saw "Amadeus" at the Senator Theater in Towson Md--(near Towson University) in 1984. I went with 5-6 other guys--ALL of us tripping balls!! We'd each dropped a couple of "Doonesberrys" (which was a primo-grade psychedelic--they were little stamp-size blotter papers with the "Doonesberry" comic strip characters on them) prior to the start of the film. The Senator is a grand Art Deco theater built in the late 1930's--and the glistening of the chandeliers hanging above us looked literally like shining diamonds!! The sound system was so powerful in our "heightened" state we actually felt like we were in Vienna watching everything live!! It was SUCH a beautiful and moving experience--I'll never forget it!! When the film ended everybody in the theater (and I'd bet 50% of the audience was in a similar "mind expanded" state) stood up and applauded for about 1-2 minutes. Unforgettable!!
That's a great memory to have. I, on the other hand, was only about 6 when it aired on TV. I think we had it on VHS as well at some stage. Obviously too young to grasp anything from it but I love the movie more now. Never once had any psychedelic in my life haha! The 80's were the best period for movies I think and I would have loved to have been in my teens then so I could watch my favourites in the cinema. Got to see some really good ones though in the 90's.
My father once told me that there is a fine line between admiration and envy.
My dead father was right...
One of the finest films ever made.
This scene sends a tingling feeling up my spine every time I see it! F Murray Abraham's portrayal of a character who discovers and recognizes the true divine nature of Mozart's music is pure genius. I love how the scene ends!
The best scene, I've never forgotten the phrase "and then, suddenly, high above it, un oboe"...
amazing scene. Mozart's music is the voice of God. indeed!!!!
Marshall Eriksen describing the tastiest burger in NYC
"It seemed to me that I was tasting the flesh of God"
lmao i recognized the reference so i came back here
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IS GONNA ASK ABOUT LMFAO!!! so that was a reference to this movie??? awesome haha
“Like a rusty squeezebox” 🍔 🤢
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This is a masterpiece of acting...with an another masterpiece from Mozart. Salute Abraham....
Of course Milos...
The funny thing is that Salieri, who knew music in depth, was probably the only one in Vienna who really understood Mozart's genius.
It is known that Mozart had a large group of admirers and supporters in Vienna. He was considered a composer for the connaiseurs.
THANK YOU SO MUCH Mr MURRAY ABRAHAM for your wonderful acting; you literally make us taste the very substance of Mozart's Genius...thank you ( i ve also enjoyed your acting in SCARFACE ).Merci MONSIEUR.
sam dorsalis
This is a GREAT comment! Pretty much sums up what I feel in this scene and the entire essence of this movie....thank you for a magnificent choice of words!
I don’t remember but did F Murray Abraham get an Oscar for his role? He should have!
One of my favorite scenes from the movie. Such pure emotion from Salieri.
I just love how they explained the structure to everyone without much effort and put that in the monologue.
probably the most powerful line of the movie and the delivery of F Murray Abraham is simply perfect.
I'll never forget playing the middle movement of Mozart's 4th violin concerto for a recital. It filled me with exactly this longing. This is no exaggeration of his work.
His Oscar winning performance was the best performance of any Oscar winner. How do I love this movie; let me count the ways...
Ohh my...this oboe melts me..🫠
It's true, after this movie you would expected he would have become the most famous of Hollywood stars. Problem is that maybe, when you give such an astounding performance nobody can really see you in other roles. Such a shame. I really love him.
I was very lucky to go to Prague years ago, and sit in the places where most of this incredible movie was filmed...
Such great acting. This movie is a classic.
The great thing about Peter Shaffer's play is that, although historically this is not a true story, it is full of breath taking musical comments. I have never read so heartfelt descriptions, they really put into words the emotions of listening to the 'Absolute beauty' (to quote the movie) of Mozart's music.
Mozart wrote for winds like no other man ever could!! This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written!!
There are just no words to describe this performance, this whole movie....one could watch it 30 times and 30 times you'd be transported in time...simply magnificent!
classic movie,classic scene. just brilliant.
Omg… it took me 20 yrs to found out that old and young Salieri were played by the same person. Well played F Murray Abraham
Fantastic movie, beautiful selection.
A pickle, so gentle and sweet. ... This was no burger - it was God speaking to us. Through food
The appreciation that I get every time @ 1:27 for allowing the single note of the Oboe to be delivered without comment is commended.
The priest not hearing a single note, but rather a man's description of a tune...oh, how sad for the priest of not being able to hear what is being played in the mind of Selieri...forever haunting him till his last days...
the greatest piece of music I have ever heard 😭💜
I love hearing him describe the music he hears, on the page. Wonderful clip :-)
Amazing description of musical genius 👏
How many times could you listen to that one note....the single note of the oboe, it delivers you from which you came. What a true Master.
These are originals scene and this scene in the movie Amadeus my favorite scenes and i can watch until end without getting bored
Wonderful scene
I am 28 years old in 2024. I was 10 when this was posted in 2006.
I love this movie.
Paul Schofield did an amazing version of the original and longer monologue of "The Voice of God" during a National Theatre Production of the stage play. The original monologue adds more depth to Salieri's pain and other deeper emotions about Mozart, the music and God.
This movie sounds amazing on blu ray... Love it..
I feel really bad for Salieri, he worked so hard to get literally from the bottom to the top. Then suddenly a younger one comes in and proves many times he does it with ease and is better than Salieri and then takes the entire stage. Imagine your pride sinking so low.
***** Yeah I know that, however the concept that the movie and play brought up intrigued me a lot. Made you rethink some things about pride, ego, and talent.
***** Hey everyone makes mistakes, otherwise you're inhuman
he could have been mozarts best friend and even his john lennon but he took it biterly
Salieri’s gift was his ability to appreciate Mozart’s music better than anyone else
The_Pyromancer exactly
Terrific actor!
There was a reference to this part in How I Met Your Mother too.
Movies today focus on blowing up people's ears. This movie focused on blowing up people's minds. I tell ya...Generation X and their music and movies.
I love his description of this song
One of my fave scenes too!
Yes! I was looking for this one. My favourite scene too. Don't you dare to remove it :)
@aaaayes That was one of the most terrific and accurate interpretation of the scene. It is people such as yourself who keep this music alive.
The acting is Godly for sure...!
whatta great movie...
i love it
thumbs up for grinning at salieri's delightful description of mozart's immortality.
The success and perhaps meaningful life in a couple of minutes
me too. nice to hear i wan't the only one with this "problem."
one of my favorite scenes and movies too.
@aaaayes How beautifuly said...this scene is amazing indeed. I can watch it over and over again...
This is one of the most intense scenes for me...the priest hears nothing...rambling on from an old mad man...only invited to hear the words & expressions that is being told to him...and for us...we are placed into Salirie's memory...to witness ourselves...of the experience that he relives in torment...for the benefit of us.
superb acting! and then there is of course, Mozart!
My favorite scene in this fantastic movie.
Thank you for posting the title of "the voice of God."
He really made the part his own...I don't recall seeing him in another movie, its a shame because he is such a fine actor.
this is my favorite movies scene of all time 😊
i watch this scene many times. This scene is a masterpiece of cinematographie. agree with Milos Forman the hole movie is designed by Mozart's genius & music. F.Murray Abraham gives an sublime performance. He's a great talent. Thanks Milos. For your point of view..
the clarinet and oboe remind me of Mary Magdalene and her sister Martha singing
For nothing, I just cannot stop listening to it, too. :-)
This is my favorite scene from the movie... so much of the plot is fictionalized, but you can really imagine Salieri (and the rest of us!) thinking this, as we hear the miracle which is Mozart's music!
.. God i love this movie.
Just a burger?
ladies and gentle when you can compose a music in your head by observing a symbol that is called passion
"this was a music I'd never heard...filled with such longing..."
Is that not life?
Murray Abraham is a wonderful actor...
@Pinkchyo It's the 3rd movement of Serenade No. 10 for Winds in B flat major,
F. Murray Abraham, greatest acting performance i think i will see in my life time.
both salirie's are great great actors
Yes, loved this scene. Unfortunately the audio here does it no justice.
you have a talent with words =) i agree with you very mutch
The best music movie EVER
Awesome.
This is no mere burger, this... this is God, speaking to us through food.
Genius!
As some black philosophical basket ball player once said, hardwork will always beat talent, unless talent works hard.
Tragically I can somewhat relate to Salieri's jealousy.
You see, when I was a kid, starting around 6 years old, I just loved cartoons, the comic strip in the Sunday newspaper, and funny comic books. I just loved the artwork, plus the laughter they provided me. My favorite painter at the time was Norman Rockwell and the comic strip I most admired was Peanuts by Charles Schulz.
As a result, I decided to try my hand at being a cartoonist. My very first efforts, when I tried to draw people, they were little more than stick figures. I could see how bad my artwork was when I compared them to the more professional art work in comic strips and comic books.
But I wasn't discouraged. I thought that with more practice, some lessons, etc, over time I should improve. Over the following years I read every book on drawing and sketching I could get my hands on, took art lessons and drew my heart out. But it proved to be no good.
6 years later, when I was 12, my art hadn't improved. My drawings of people still resembled little more than stick figures. All those art lessons and all those books I read didn't help to make me a better artist. Instead, what it did do for me for better or for worse was give me the ability to better recognize good or great art when I see it.
At age 12 I threw in the towel on my attempt to be a cartoonist. I would have loved to have my own popular comic strip that was well loved all over the world, like Charles Schulz's Peanuts (he made it look so easy!) But it was not to be.
These days when I see a beautiful work of art such as a painting or a comic strip, if the artist is a grown man in his 30s, 40s, 50s, or even older, I don't feel jealousy whatsoever and I enjoy the artwork.
But when I see a beautiful painting or drawing done by some 8-10 year old kid, I get huge pangs of jealousy and I ask myself, "why couldn't I have had just half of that kids talent when I was his age?"
Dude, if after working with every book you could put your hands on and taking numerous lessons you were still drawing “little more than stick figures”, there is definitely something wrong with you. Don’t compare yourself with Salieri. He was a genius in his own right, he just had bad luck in being alive at the same time Mozart was.
@Stoirelius I agree there was something wrong with me. Absolutely. After all those years of reading how to draw books, taking lessons, and drawing my heart out, I couldnt and didn't improve as an artist. I'm not comparing myself to Salieri artistic-wise. I'm comparing emotions in that I understand his jealousy. I was never nowhere near as good as an artist as he was, but I understand and sympathize with him in the reasons why he is jealous of Mozart.
Thanks!
I completely agree :) it may have even have came from the stars
I agree with you, Salieri did want to be like Mozart, I just feel that he wanted Mozart to be more like him in temperament....anyway, F. Murray Abraham was wonderful in the role of Salieri, his descriptions of the music sent shivers down my spine :)
Lovely performance.
@SIRJOSEPHPORTERKCB well, Beethoven wasn't born deaf. When he became deaf, he already knew what music would give this or that note, so he could hear the music in his head ;)
And suddenly... a pickle. The most playful little pickle...
thank you!
Imagine that you can hear a score as you read it. This would be a prison if ever there was one in the presence of Mozart.
Yes, indeed F. Murray Abraham won the Oscar and Golden Globe awards for best actor in AMADEUS.
😂That reminds Me!
@benjosephuyacot!I,ll tell you what that music is it's, Serrnade "Gran Partita" K361 (3rd movement)
Glad to help! Lol!
"On the page it looked nothing;the beginning ,simple,almost comic: just a pulse,bassoons,bassets horns,like a rusty squeeze box ...and then suddenly,high above it,an oboe, a single note, hanging there,unwavering,until a clarinet took it over,sweetened it into a phrase of such delight .This was no composition by a performing monkey,this was a music I had never heard ,filled with such longing , such unfullfillable longing, it seemed to me that I was hearing the VOICE OF GOD "
Great monologue
Divine acting
Nothing else to say...
ENJOY
Serenade No. 10 in Bb K361-370a - Adagio
Which Mozart piece was this? I love it
@rhill54 the movie isn't intended to portray Mozart 100% but there apparently were aspects of his personality that were light-hearted and jokesterish, for lack of a better word. His life, in fact, was a bit more realistically tragic in the sense of seemingly constant debts and lack of sufficient funds and a lifelong struggle to secure an exceptionally court position that also paid exceptionally well etc.
Movie coping beethoveen hover
amadeus is the best movie ever!
soooo gooood
What song is it
Oh! thanks Kalabanano :)
I can picture F Murray Abraham playing Lord Voldemort for some reason.