The script clearly took some artistic liberties, including the plotline of the masked man who comes to Mozart pretending to be his dead father. This was not, as the movie portrays, Salieri. But in 1791, Austrian Count Franz von Walsegg-who had a penchant for commissioning music to pass off as his own at his twice-weekly concerts-approached Mozart and asked for a requiem for his beloved wife, who had died on Valentine's Day.According to a famously censored document in which a teacher near Vienna, Anton Herzog, recorded firsthand accounts of von Walsegg's court, the Count often rewrote these commissioned quartets and other scores in his own hand and didn't give credit to the original composers. His staff musicians often laughed this off because it seemed to amuse the Count, and because the Count was also an amateur musician in his own right. Mozart's "Requiem Mass in D minor," the document alleges, was one such piece. And Mozart really did die later that year, in December, before completing the full mass. Salieri didn't help him complete it though; Austrian composer and possible Mozart student Franz Süssmayr took that on.

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