Amadeus (1980), a play by Peter Shaffer. Shaffer's version of the MozartāSalieri story, told from Salieri's point of view, was done in London in 1979 and first offered to Broadway in 1980, winning the Tony Award and running just short of three years. Ian McKellen was the original American Salieri and Tim Curry was Mozart, under the careful direction of Peter Hall. An acclaimed London revival failed to run when brought to Broadway in 1999.
A visionary who experienced an apocalypse and revelations, in one of which he learned the two psalms composed by Adam, one a mark of joy at the creation of Eve, and the other the dialogue he held with her after they had sinned. Both psalms are printed in the Codex Pseudepigraphus Veteris Testamenti of Johann Albert Fabricius, published at Hamburg, 1713-33.