Amadeus Milos Forman

Film credits

• Music conducted and supervised by Neville Marriner
• Music coordinator: John Strauss
• Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by Neville Marriner
• Choruses
  • Academy Chorus of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by László Heltay
  • Ambrosian Opera Chorus, conducted by John McCarthy
  • The Choristers of Westminster Abbey, conducted by Simon Preston
• Instrumental soloists
  • Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major, K. 482: Ivan Moravec
  • Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466: Imogen Cooper
  • Adagio in C minor for Glass Harmonica, K. 617: Thomas Bloch with The Brussels Virtuosi, conducted by Marc Grauwels
• Parody backgrounds: San Francisco Symphony Chorus
• "Caro mio ben" by Giuseppe Giordani: Michele Esposito, soprano

Original soundtrack recording

The soundtrack album[47] reached No. 1 in the Billboard Classical Albums Chart, No. 56 in the Billboard Popular Albums Chart, has sold over 6.5 million copies and received thirteen gold discs, making it one of the most popular classical music recordings of all time.[48] It won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Album in 1984.[49]

• Disc 1

1. Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183, 1st movement
2. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater: "Quando corpus morietur" and "Amen"
3. Early 18th Century Gypsy Music: Bubak and Hungaricus
4. Mozart: Serenade for Winds in B-flat major, K. 361, 3rd movement
5. Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio, K. 384, Turkish Finale
6. Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201, 1st movement
7. Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat major, K. 365, 3rd movement
8. Mozart: Great Mass in C minor, K. 427, Kyrie
9. Mozart: Symphonie Concertante in E-flat major, K. 364, 1st movement
10. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 in B-Flat, K. 450, 3rd movement

• Disc 2

1. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major, K. 482, 3rd movement
2. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, Act III, "Ecco la Marcia"
3. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, Act IV, "Ah, tutti contenti"
4. Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act II, Commendatore scene
5. Mozart: Zaide, K. 344, Aria, "Ruhe sanft"
6. Mozart: Requiem, K. 626, Introitus (orchestral introduction)
7. Mozart: Requiem, K. 626, Dies irae
8. Mozart: Requiem, K. 626, Rex tremendae majestatis
9. Mozart: Requiem, K. 626, Confutatis
10. Mozart: Requiem, K. 626, Lacrimosa
11. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, 2nd movement

All tracks on the album were performed specifically for the film. According to the film commentary by Forman and Schaffer, Marriner agreed to score the film if Mozart's music was completely unchanged from the original scores. Marriner did add some notes to Salieri's music that are noticeable at the beginning of the film, as Salieri begins his confession.

The aria "Ruhe sanft" from the opera Zaide does not appear in the film.

Charts

More Music from the Original Soundtrack

In 1985 an additional album with the title More Music from the Original Soundtrack of the Film Amadeus was issued containing further selections of music that were not included in the original soundtrack release.[63]

1. Mozart: The Magic Flute, K. 620, Overture
2. Mozart: The Magic Flute, K. 620, act 2, Queen of the Night aria
3. Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music, K. 477
4. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, 1st movement
5. Antonio Salieri: Axur, re d'Ormus, Finale
6. Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G major), K. 525, 1st movement, arranged for woodwind octet by Graham Sheen
7. Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Harp in C major, K. 299, 2nd movement
8. Mozart: Six German Dances (Nos. 1–3), K. 509
9. Giuseppe Giordani: "Caro mio ben"
10. Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio, K. 384, Chorus of the Janissaries (Arr.) and "Ich möchte wohl der Kaiser sein" ("Ein deutsches Kriegslied"), K. 539 (Arr.)

The Masonic Funeral Music was originally intended to play over the closing credits, but was replaced in the film by the second movement of the Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor[64] (included on the Original Soundtrack Recording).

Director's Cut soundtrack

In 2002, to coincide with the release of the Director's Cut of the film, the soundtrack was remastered with 24-bit encoding and reissued with the title Special Edition: The Director's Cut – Newly Remastered Original Soundtrack Recording on two 24-karat gold CDs.[65] It contains most of the music from the previous two releases, but with the following differences.

The following pieces were added for this release:

• Salieri's March of Welcome turned into "Non più andrai" from The Marriage of Figaro (includes dialogue from the film)
• Adagio in C minor for Glass Harmonica, K. 617 (from a new 2001 recording)

The following pieces, previously released on More Music from the Original Soundtrack of the Film Amadeus, were not included:

• Masonic Funeral Music, K. 477
• Six German Dances (Nos. 1–3), K. 509