History didn&#x27;t start with that movie, you know. Salieri&#x27;s work was not performed e.g. in Russia, where the influence of Pushkin&#x27;s &quot;Mozart and Salieri&quot; was particularly strong, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. For part of the 20th century, I was a witness to that myself - I heard several times from friends who were musicians that Salieri&#x27;s works are never performed because he is thought to have poisoned Mozart. This is <i>why</i> his music was obscure. If he is being rediscovered after yet more slander, well, that&#x27;s good, but two centuries of the worst kind of lies and calumnies are still a bad way to treat a person, I would say.