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 general thrust of the changes were to de-melodramatize Salieri’s action and to focus more attention on his guilt and metaphysical torment.

From Los Angeles Times

The play begins at Salieri’s end, the scene of a dying man fanning suspicions over his role in Mozart’s death.

From Los Angeles Times

Mays’ Salieri — bald, munching Italian cookies and foaming at the mouth when in the grip of seething resentment — has a story to tell, a detective tale in which the crime being investigated may not be the murder he’s touting but a spiritual offense that is even more agonizing to confess.

From Los Angeles Times

An inveterate self-promoter, Salieri is determined to control how he’ll be remembered.

From Los Angeles Times

Mays’ Salieri is at once aghast at such loutish behavior and bitterly envious that Mozart is exceptional enough to get away with it.

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