Salieri's March
That is, the "March of Welcome" he writes for Mozart in the film, which Mozart plays from memory and improves (turning it into the theme of Non Piu Andrai from Marriage of Figaro). Which of Salieri's works does it come from? If any. On the DVD commentary, Peter Shaffer says that he and Marriner went through some of Salieri's works to find a tune that sounds like it could plausibly have been transformed into that piece by Mozart, but he omits to mention which work he took it from. Of course the scene is fiction - but is the tune itself a piece of fakery too?
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