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dwhw — 9 years ago(July 16, 2016 09:39 AM)

The first play to treat this theme was " " (Mozart and Salieri), by Alexander Pushkin, but I don't think Peter Shaffer ever acknowledged this source. (Of course, there had been rumors that it was Salieri who murdered Mozart out of jealousy, but this Russian play was written less than 40 years after Mozart's death, and was the first serious piece of literature that treated these rumors.)
If anyone has read, or seen, the Pushkin playin any languageI'd like to know if he/she thinks Pushkin's work was at least partly plagiarized.
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Schaffer doesn't acknowledge Pushkin for the same reason that Goethe didn't acknowledge Marlowe when writing
Faust
: they were completely independent works inspired by the same legend. Schaffer wasn't adapting Pushkin's take on the Mozart-Salieri myth, he was writing his own take on the myth.

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