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I was obsessed with the film Amadeus when I was younger. Miloš Forman’s “fantasia” about a fictional rivalry between the prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the composer Antonio Salieri, adapted from the play by Peter Shaffer, came out in 1984 and won eight Academy Awards. I watched it on a scratchy VHS tape so many times that I could…

