Music and Time Annotation << Back Pushkin’s Mozart and Salieri as the Cultural Code of the Art of Music L.I. Malysheva The article presents a new look at the heroes of the A.S. Pushkin tragedy «Mozart and Salieri» as symbols of musical art. The article analyzes A.S. Pushkin’s supposed foresight of the emergence and constant accumulation of opposite principles in the national musical culture, in its successive epochs, each of which had its own priorities. It is concluded that the tragedy «Mozart and Salieri» contains the cultural code of the art of music. Keywords: Pushkin, Mozart, Salieri, musical art, cultural code. Pp. 27-30.