On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:51:57 -0400, hk wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:06:35 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Eine kleine Nachtmusik ist bitchin, ya?

Mozart: Too many notes

- Salieri

If your reference is to the movie Amadeus, the line you quoted or at
least a variation of it was spoken by Archduke Leopold, not Salieri. In
reality, it unlikely was spoken at all, as the relationship between
Mozard and Salieri was nothing like it was depicted in that movie, good
as the film was.

WHOOSH.....

And it was Emperor Joseph II, not Leopold.

Quote from Derek Thomas's review:

"There is a delicious line in the movie on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Amadeus, when Emperor Joseph II—who fancies himself as something of a
connoisseur about music, certainly what constitutes the difference
between good music and the best music, when he is commenting on one of
Mozart’s early operas. The setting of the opera is something we’ll
pass by, but Emperor Joseph is struggling to put his finger on it and
he turns to the court composer Antonio Salieri, Mozart’s nemesis in
the movie (but that’s debatable). “Too many notes?” Salieri suggests.
The Emperor agreed. “Too many notes! There it is.”

Pop culture- gotta love it. :)