Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Legends and the truth
"Requiem" was finished by Sussmayer.
Everything that Mozart managed to compose in this composition strikes with incredible courage, especially in the field of harmony.
One can only wonder how Count F. was going to perform this composition in front of the public.
Walzegg Stuppach!
He was the anonymous person who bought the future composition and wanted to pass it off as his own.
Constance personally copied the original, supplemented by Sussmayer, before sending it to the customer.
By doing this, she saved the creation of a genius for future generations.
Otherwise, it would have been lost forever in the archive of an aristocrat plagiarist.
The following legend about Mozart is devoted to the cause of his death and the circumstances of his funeral.
The composer died before reaching the age of 36, by our standards, still a young man.
Naturally, the sudden death (Mozart fell ill only half a month before his death) very quickly became overgrown with rumors and speculation.
There were two versions of the causes of his death.
One of them about the poisoning of the genius by the envious Salieri was reflected in Pushkin's" little tragedy".
The origin of this legend is the fault of Salieri himself, who two years before his death began to lose his mind and during one attack slandered himself, saying that he poisoned Mozart.
Beethoven, who later became Salieri's pupil in composition, strongly disputed these rumors.
Indeed, there was no reason to poison Mozart Salieri, because it was he, the court composer, who succeeded in life, and not Mozart.
True, there were strained relations between them, but in the last year of Mozart's life they noticeably warmed up.
Moreover, shortly before Mozart's death, Salieri performed his famous G minor symphony in a charity concert in Vienna.
Salieri's biographers claim that in life he was a good natured, benevolent person and always ready to help.
The use of the name Salieri to denote an envious person, which came into use with the light hand of Pushkin, is historically unfounded and unfair.
According to another version, entrenched in the German nationalist literature, Mozart was poisoned by freemasons.
German sources call the cause of illness and death an acute infectious disease.
Others – rheumatically inflammatory fever.
The last year of the 20th century and the second millennium put an end to the dispute.
The exhibits of the Leipzig exhibition, held the year before last in connection with the 250th anniversary of Bach's death and called "Bach and Mozart – victims of the medicine of the 19th century", convincingly indicate that Mozart was not poisoned, but... only healed by the Viennese aesculapians.
The widespread bloodletting at that time was carried out by them in a patient with the help of a rough metal device, which looks more like an instrument for torture.
In combination with taking a drug prescribed to induce vomiting, it led to a fatal outcome.
The last legend: due to the lack of money for the funeral, Mozart was buried in a common grave for the poor.
My wife was ill at home and could not take part in the funeral.
Behind the coffin of the deceased were a few friends who did not even go to the grave because of the cold rain and wind that broke out.
The "bad" wife did not put a cross on the grave, so many future fans lost a place where they could pay posthumous honors to their idol.
Like almost all the legends we have already considered, this one is also far from reality.
Mozart, as I have already said, was a Freemason, for whom there was a special order of burial, the so called Josephine, practiced, by the way, until now.
According to him, a church funeral service was necessary, held for Mozart in the church of St. Stephen.
After the service, the body of the deceased was sent without any escort to the cemetery of St. Mark, located far outside the city.
In the evenings, five dead people were buried there at once in a large common grave.
The presence of relatives and relatives was not allowed.
Individual crosses on graves were not allowed, at best, the establishment of a nameplate in the cemetery wall was allowed.
The Josephine burial of those times allowed burial only in shrouds, Mozart was still buried in his own coffin.
In all other respects, it was a burial according to a typical pattern at that time.
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