Q: Generate a correct and concise answer for the question based on the words in the context.
Context : First performed in 1979, Amadeus was inspired by a short 1830 play by Alexander Pushkin called Mozart and Salieri (which was also used as the libretto for an opera of the same name by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1897).
Question : Which is the basis of Amadeus?
A:
Mozart and Salieri