Mozart and Salieri
In the organ composition after the famous tragedy “Mozart and Salieri” by Alexander S. Pushkin, the usual contraposition of the two composers is not found.
Though some of A.S. Pushkin’s tragic colouring, associating the ill fame of a great malefactor with the name of Salieri, cannot be absolutely abolished, the inspiring beauty of Benedictus from Antonio Salieri’s mass sounds like a kind of polemics with the great poet.
The tragedy of the fate of the Austrian music genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is stressed by his “Fantasy in F minor” concluding the first part of the concert programme “The Music of the Great”.