I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.
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People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.
To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.
If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.
Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.
If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
Mozart is sweet sunshine.
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.
For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely make you just glad to be alive.
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