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Your link to the article was adequate. There was no need to copy and paste a bunch of copyrighted BBC material. I’ve edited both of your posts accordingly.
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KITHfan1 would be 22 or 23 now. Makes me wonder how the Mozart interest evolved.
KITHfan1: there is a huge amount of actual scholarly work written about Mozart that you should be consulting, including the aforementioned Solomon biography and a library’s worth of books by H.C. Robbins Landon. I can also recommend Emily Anderson’s editions of Mozart’s letters which are a very illuminating (and occasionally disgusting) read, although obviously you’re not going to find much information on his death as he was a terrible posthumous correspondent.
Since we’re discussing conspiracies for completeness’ sake I’ll also throw out the one that Franz Xaver Süssmayr poisoned him for sleeping with his wife, although I’m fairly sure this doesn’t bear much scrutiny. There is even doubt whether Süssmayr was actually a student of Mozart or just someone Constanze drafted in to finish the Requiem.
ETA: Oh bloody hell - a zombie thread ate my brains…
Concur.
Zombie Mozart!
… shambling about, decomposing…
The Requiem is gone now; everything’s likely to uncompose in reverse order…
When a composer decomposes it’s doubly tragic.
Yeah, imagine my surprise!