What is inaccurate about amadeus the movie?
The first time we see the messenger going to Mozart’s house it is winter. The Requiem Mass was commissioned during the mid-summer of 1791. Joseph II was actually the Holy Roman Emperor, not Emperor of Austria as Salieri erroneously states. Schikaneder has Mozart play the party theme in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach, which the Viennese party crowd clearly recognizes. Although the historical Mozart knew of Bach’s work through his friendship with the composer’s son, Bach’s name and music would have been wholly unknown in the Vienna of the 1780s. Bach only became famous when Felix Mendelssohn promoted and popularized his work, nearly forty years after Mozart’s death. At the time if his death, Mozart had two sons living, Karl and Franz. The Mozarts had seven children total, five had died before Mozart’s death. In the movie, Salieri offers God his chastity in exchange for immortality. The real Salieri married in 1774 and fathered 8 children. Salieri implies to his confessor that Katerin
