They should've named the movie "Wolfgang"
Sounds much cooler.
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No. FYI the name "Amadeus" is latin for "loved by God", and it's not only Mozart's middle name, it's the reason Salieri is so insanely jealous of him. Salieri doesn't just hate Mozart the annoying man, he's furious at God Almighty for giving this prat the talents he wants but doesn't have.
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So, if Amadeus means 'loved by god' what does Wolfgang mean?
shareMy dear friend Mr. Google tells me it means "... a combination of the Old High German word wulf, meaning "wolf" and gang, meaning "path, journey"." So I guess it really means "wolf road trip", which come to think of it is a great name for a Van Halen.
I should introduce you to Mr. Google, it's a pity you haven't met.
lol... okay...
I don't us google, it's owned by the Chinese and they're spying on us.
Personally, I think there's some benefit in flooding the spymasters with useless trivia questions like this one. They can't get any social engineering out of that one!
shareTrue... random stuff would help but it looks like in the future wars will be fought electronically, which I suppose is much better than the alternative.
shareA gang of wolves loved by god Mozart.
shareMozart's name given at baptism was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. "Theophilus" is the Greek equivalent of the Latin "Amadeus." Both mean "love of God."
The changes in his name are explained here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart%27s_name#Later_life
Wolfgang would've been a terrible and confusing name for the movie because there was no gang of wolves in the movie. Amadeus is good title, but an even better title for the movie would've been simply calling it....Loved By God.
shareRoll Over Beethoven.
shareThe movie is better as Amadeus, but boy do I wish I was named Wolfgang...
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