Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will
ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn't recognize his talen
ts - only Antonio Salieri, the Court Composer, does, and he is tortured by what
he hears. Seething with rage at the genius of this flippant buffoon and suddenly
aware of his own mediocrity, Salieri declares war and sets out to destroy the m
an he sees as God's instrument on earth.
