Pungent Stench - Suffer The Little Children To Come Unto Me

The fact that Salieri was a recognized authority in the field of music, primarily opera, is beyond doubt. Literally, the first steps in this field brought fame to the composer: his “Scientists Women” (1770), “Armida” (1771), and “Venice Fair” (1772) were successfully staged in Vienna. He gained even greater fame thanks to his "Parisian" operas "Danaids" (1784) and "Tarar" (1787). Boris Abramovich Kouchner, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, in a striking article entitled “In Defense of Antonio Salieri” rightly remarked: “The obvious lack of the myth that Salieri poisoned Mozart was Salieri’s apparent lack of motive.