Amadeus Summary
Peter Shaffer

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Amadeus Summary

When Peter Shaffer's Amadeus opened at the National Theatre of Great Britain in November 1979, it was received enthusiastically by audiences and critics alike. One year after its premiere, London audiences began to line up at ticket offices at six in the morning on the day of performance. Shaffer revised the play extensively before Its American debut in Washington, D.C., in November 1980. Soon after, the play opened on Broadway, where it won five...

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Peter Shaffer Biographies (5)

Peter Levin Shaffer

1,418 words, approx. 5 pages

Peter Levin Shaffer (born 1926) became one of England's most popular and respected playwrights; his work was equally successful in the United States, where he chose to live.Born May 15, 1926, Peter Sh... Read more

Peter (Levin) Shaffer

12,221 words, approx. 41 pages

[This entry was updated by C. J. Gianakaris (Western Michigan University) from the entry by Warren Sylvester Smith in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 337-356.]With ... Read more

Peter (Levin) Shaffer

7,379 words, approx. 25 pages

Peter Shaffer is one of the most consistently popular playwrights of the British mainstream theater, with a stage career dating from 1959. Because his work suggests none of the political commitment of... Read more

Peter Levin Shaffer

10,761 words, approx. 36 pages

Biography EssayWith less than a dozen major productions since his emergence on the London scene in 1958, Peter Shaffer can hardly be called one of England's more prolific playwrights. But he may well ... Read more

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2,663 words, approx. 9 pages

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was an Austrian composer whose mastery of the whole range of contemporary instrumental and vocal forms--including the symphony, concerto, chamber music, and especia... Read more

Essays & Analysis (6)

The Greatest Composer: Mozart

758 words, approx. 3 pages

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is probably the greatest musician the world has ever seen. Though Mozart short life of thirty-five years he composed over 600 pieces, which are some of the finest pieces comp... Read more

Mozart

318 words, approx. 2 pages

Do you know any musical geniuses? Would you take the chance at an open topic report to get to know one? Didn't think you would. But I did. On Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Considered to be the most greates... Read more

Amadeus

609 words, approx. 3 pages

Language is an abstract tool that humanity uses to communicate ideas amongst themselves. Though useful, verbal language doesn't always pass an idea concretely. This can be due to two people hav... Read more

Mozart's Example, How I Would Make My Opera

634 words, approx. 3 pages

The story that I would choose for and opera for today's audience would be one with the basis of love, but tragic love that cannot be realized. I would write an opera that is based around two people, a... Read more

The Social and Personal Impediments Against Which Genius Has to Battle."

2,031 words, approx. 7 pages

As a composer, and a performer, there can be no question of Mozart's genius, however, what is genius defined as? The main definition is that genius is a very great and rare innate ability or skill- it... Read more

The Real Mozart

1,126 words, approx. 4 pages

We all know the Austrian Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prodigy, astounding eighteenth-century Europe with his endless energy for the piano, violin, viola, bass, cello, harp, flute, oboe, bassoon, trum... Read more

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