Mozart shows Salieri a sketch
(Mozart comes in)
Okey! You have caught all! However, I would like
To regale you with a sudden little jest.
Salieri
You here! - How long?
Mozart
Just now. Going to you
I took with me something to show live you .
But when walking past the inn house, heard
The violin just played … No, my friend, Salieri!
Thou have not listened anything more funny
In your whole life … The sightless violinist in tavern
Performed ‘voi che sapete’. Nicely!
Eagerly I brought the violinist here
Immediately introduce you to his art.
Enter!
(The old blind man brings a fiddle)
A piece of Mozart, please!
(The old man performs Don Giovani’s aria,
Mozart burst into laughter)
Salieri
How can you laugh for that?
Mozart
Ah, Salieri!
In deed are you not laughing loud?
Salieri
No.
I'm not in fun when an unworthy painter
In front of me gloss over Raphael's Madonna,
I'm not in fun when a paltry buffoon
Makes shame to Alighieri by burlesque.
I'm not in fun.
Mozart
You Salieri
Out of sorts now. I will see you
Another time.
Salieri
What did you offer me?
Mozart
So-so; bagatelles. The other night
My insomnia tormented very badly,
And two, three thinks appears at my think-tank.
Today I wrote them down. I wished
To hear your point of view; but now
You are not up to me.
Salieri
Ugh! Mozart, Mozart!
When am I not up to you? Sit down;
I'm listening to.
(Mozart (at the piano)
Imagine you ... whom would?
Well, even me being a bit younger;
Enamoured - not too much, a little -
With pretty, or with sidekick - even you,
I'm funny …Bang: a sepulchral apparition,
A sudden gloom or something like that ...
Well, listen now.
(Plays)
Salieri
You went to me with this
And could stand still beside the inn house
And listen to a sightless fiddler! - Jesus!
You, Mozart, really are not worth of you.
Mozart
Or is it so good?
Salieri
What such profoundness,
What daring courage and what such grace subtle!
Mozart, you’re god, and you yourself do not know that;
Me know, me.
Mozart
Bah! right? may it be...
But my divinity wants to eat badly.
Salieri
Listen: we'll dine together
In famous Golden Lion tavern.
Mozart
Possible;
I'm glad. But let me go home and say
To wife and children at the dinner
Not to expect me.
(Went out)
Salieri
Expect you; look then.
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