When was salieri born

To join or renew as a Member, please visit our Membership page. To make a donation in memory of someone, please visit our Memorial Donation page. Italian composer Antonio Salieri was born into a musical family in Verona Italy, and began his early studies in Venice, with his older brother, a pupil of Tartini. He spent most of his productive years in Vienna, beginning as a pupil of several well established Viennese musicians.

Through these connections he became acquainted with Emperor Joseph, who was a generous patron of the musical establishment in Vienna. The Oscar Award winning film, Amadeus, grossly mischaracterized Salieri, portraying him as a jealous, backstabbing villain.

Near the end of his life, he was placed in an asylum owing to his deteriorating mental and physical states. He died in Vienna on May 7, AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods.

Drinking Hanging Out In Love. Introspection Late Night Partying. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes. Articles Features Interviews Lists. Streams Videos All Posts. Salieri was a Venetian composer, but he moved to Vienna at the age of 16 and spent almost 60 years there before his death, so most of his contemporary musicians and critics considered him to be a German composer.

Salieri was primarily an opera composer with 37 operas to his credit , but he wrote some great chamber music and sacred music as well. In his later years, once he stopped writing, he was still in high demand as a teacher, and he counts Beethoven, Liszt, and Schubert among his students.