Salieri

American  

[suhl-yair-ee, sal-, sah-lye-ree] / səlˈyɛər i, sæl-, sɑˈlyɛ ri /

noun

1. Antonio 1750–1825, Italian composer and conductor.

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Salieri British  

/ ˌsalˈjeri /

noun

1. Antonio (anˈtonjo). 1750–1825, Italian composer and conductor, who worked in Vienna (from 1766). The suggestion that he poisoned Mozart has no foundation

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Example Sentences

The story is a fictional account of the contentious relationship between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his rival, Antonio Salieri, the court composer of the Austrian emperor.

From Los Angeles Times

Rimsky-Korsakov turned to Mozart and Salieri.

From Los Angeles Times

For Pearce that sense of yearning insecurity was a familiar one, which he compares to the character of Salieri in “Amadeus,” being talented enough only to recognize true genius.

From Los Angeles Times

In “Oppenheimer” he plays this character, Lewis Strauss, who was a sort of a bureaucrat and government official who Christopher Nolan, the director of the film, was described as the Salieri to Robert Oppenheimer’s Mozart — this man who’s sort of overtaken by his own jealousies, his awareness of his own failings.

From Los Angeles Times

She has excelled in Baroque roles that veered from the mainstream, releasing recordings devoted to 19th century soprano Maria Malibran, castrati and composers Antonio Salieri and Agostino Steffani.

From Seattle Times