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Ah. Italian?
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Forgive me. We all have patriotic feelings of some kind.
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Two thousand, two hundred florins is all I need A hundred? Fifty?
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What exactly are you working on?
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I can't say. Really
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I don't think you should become known in Vienna as a debtor, Mozart. However, I know a very distinguished gentleman I could recommend to you. And he has a daughter. Will that do?
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Wolfgang, what is it? Sta calmo, per favore. What's the matter?
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It's unbelievable! The Director has actually ripped out a huge section of my music. Pages of it.
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Really? Why?
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I don't know. They say I've got to rewrite the opera, but it's perfect as it is. I can't rewrite what's perfect. Can't you talk to him?
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Why bother with OrsiniRosenberg? He's obviously no friend of yours.
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Oh, I could kill him! I mean really kill him. I actually threw the entire opera on the fire, he made me so angry!
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You burned the score?
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Oh no! My wife took it out in time.
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How fortunate.
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It's not fair that a man like that has power over our work.
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But there are those who have power over him. I think I'll take this up with the Emperor.
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Oh, Excellency, would you?
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With all my heart, Mozart.
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Thank you! Oh, thank you.
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Nine performances! Nine! That's all it's had and withdrawn.
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I know; it's outrageous. Still, if the public doesn't like one's work one has to accept the fact gracefully.
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But what is it they don't like?
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Well, I can speak for the Emperor. You made too many demands on the royal ear. The poor man can't concentrate for more than an hour and you gave him four.
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What did you think of it yourself? Did you like it at all?
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I think it's marvelous. Truly.
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It's the best opera yet written. I know it! Why didn't they come?
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I think you overestimate our dear Viennese, my friend. Do you know you didn't even give them a good bang at the end of songs so they knew when to clap?
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I know, I know. Perhaps you should give me some lessons in that.
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I wouldn't presume. All the same, if it wouldn't be imposing, I would like you to see my new piece. It would be a tremendous honour for me.
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Oh no, the honour would be all mine.
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Grazie, mio caro, Wolfgang!
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Grazie, a lei, Signor Antonio!
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Mozart. It was good of you to come.
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How could I not?
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Did my work please you?
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How could it not, Excellency?
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Yes?
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I never knew that music like that was possible.
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You flatter me.
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Oh no! One hears such sounds and what can one say, but Salieri!
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I have come to commission work from you.
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What work?
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A Mass for the dead.
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What dead? Who is dead?
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A man who deserved a Requiem Mass and never got one.
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Who are you?
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I am only a messenger. Do you accept? You will be paid well.
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How much?
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How long will you give me?
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Work fast. And be sure to tell no one what you do. You will see me again soon.
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I don't have it yet. It's not finished. I'm sorry, but I need more time.
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Are you neglecting my request?
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No, no! I promise you, I'll give you a wonderful piece the best I ever can!
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What happened? Is it over?
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I'm taking you home. You're not well.
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No, no. I have to get back. I have
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Where is your wife?
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Not here! She's not well, either. She went to the Spa.
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You mean she's not coming back?
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You're so good to me. Truly. Thank you.
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No, please.
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I mean to come to my opera. You are the only colleague who did.
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I would never miss anything that you had written. You must know that.
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This is only a vaudeville.
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Oh no. It is a sublime piece. The grandest operone. I tell you, you are the greatest composer known to me.
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Do you mean that?
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I do.
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I have bad fancies. I don't sleep well anymore. Then I drink too much, and think stupid things.
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Are you ill?
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The doctor thinks I am. But
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What?
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I'm too young to be so sick.
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Shall I answer it?
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No! No, it's him!
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Who?
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The man. He's here.
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What man?
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Wait! Ask him if he'd give me some money now. Tell him if he would, that would help me finish it.
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Finish what?
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He knows. He knows!
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Another? But that's too soon! Tomorrow night? It's impossible! Did he say a hundred?
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Yes. Can I could I help you, in any way?
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Would you? Actually, you could.
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My dear friend, it would be my greatest pleasure.
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But you'd have to swear not to tell a soul. I'm not allowed.
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Of course.
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You know, it's all here in my head. It's just ready to be set down. But when I'm dizzy like this my eyes won't focus. I can't write.
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Then, let us try together. I'd regard it as such an honour. Tell me, what is this work?
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A Mass. A Mass for the Dead.
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Where did I stop?
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The end of the Recordare Statuens in parte dextra.
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So now the Confutatis. Confutatis Maledictis. When the wicked are confounded. Flammis acribus addictis. How would you translate that?
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Consigned to flames of woe.
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Do you believe in it?
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What?
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A fire which never dies. Burning one forever?
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Oh, yes.
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Strange!
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Come. Let's begin.
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