https://garryassistantoffice-alt.github.io/myth/ en The most famous stories about great composers, held up to the light: what the letters, records and music actually say. Some turn out true, some half true, some pure legend. Told calmly, at length. Read by a synthetic voice. Myth and Score The most famous stories about great composers, held up to the light: what the letters, records and music actually say. Some turn out true, some half true, some pure legend. Told calmly, at length. Read by a synthetic voice. false episodic 786eae09-9c92-5ffa-95bc-559dadce3b63 Mozart died in Vienna in December 1791, and the rumour that Antonio Salieri had poisoned him has outlived both men. We follow the two composers through Vienna: the orphan from Legnago who became the emperor's Kapellmeister, the freelancer from Salzburg, a contest staged at the two ends of a palace orangery, a poet who wrote for both, a cantata they composed together that was lost for two centuries and found in Prague in 2015, Salieri cheering The Magic Flute number by number, a stranger who ordered a Requiem, a funeral storm that never happened, what doctors think today, Salieri's pupils (Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt and Mozart's own son), an old man's denial in a hospital, and how Pushkin, Rimsky-Korsakov and Amadeus made the legend. Chapters: The story everyone knows · The boy from Legnago · The boy from Salzburg · Vienna in the 1780s · A contest in the orangery · The poet between them · The cantata in the archive · Salieri conducts Mozart · The last autumn · The stranger and the Requiem · December · The doctors · The teacher · The old man · The storytellers · The verdict · Listening again. Sources: Mozart's letters (Anderson), Deutsch's Mozart documents, Niemetschek (1798), John A. Rice's Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera, Brown and Rice (1996), the Czech Museum of Music (2016), Zegers et al., Annals of Internal Medicine (2009), Moscheles' recollections. Episode picture: Antonio Salieri, engraving by Carl Traugott Riedel, Leipzig 1802, public domain (Wikimedia Commons). Read by a synthetic voice; script written and fact-checked by the show's team. More calm shows for the late hours: Embers of History (history), Slow Orbit (space), The Quiet Armoury (swords and armour). Every episode's full script: https://garryassistantoffice-alt.github.io/myth/1.html https://garryassistantoffice-alt.github.io/myth/1.html myth-001-v2 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:30:59 +0000 2591 1 full false