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Salieri, Antonio 1750-1825
Italian composer

Born in Verona, he worked in Vienna for 50 years. A teacher of Beethoven and Schubert, he became court composer (1774) and hofkapellmeister (1788), writing over 40 operas, an oratorio and masses. A rival of Mozart, he was later alleged to have poisoned him, although there is no substantive evidence of this.

Bibliography: Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Salieri: Rival of Mozart (1989)