“Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and the structure would fall”
“Astounding! It was actually beyond belief. These were first and only drafts of music. But they showed no corrections of any kind. Not one. He had simply written down music already finished in his head. Page after page of it as if he were just taking dictation.
And music finished as no music is ever finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and the structure would fall…Here again was the very voice of God. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at an absolute beauty.”
— F. Murray Abraham, who received best Actor award for this part, as composer Antonio Salieri in the Milos Forman film Amadeus (1984 Best Picture). Based on the play Amadeus by screenwriter Peter Shaffer (Academy Award for best adapted screenplay, Amadeus)
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