At fifty-five minutes past midnight on December 5th, 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died.

[elleng]

He was 35 years old. His wife, Constanza, who had been on her knees praying for hours, began to weep uncontrollably and crawled into Wolfgang’s bed to embrace his body. Later that day, she wrote into her husband’s notebook, “O, would that I were soon joined to you forever.”

A few weeks later, the news reached Mozart’s old friend Franz Joseph Haydn in London. He wrote to his publisher in Vienna, "I cannot believe that Providence would so soon claim the life of such an indispensable man.”

On this week's Sunday Show, we'll note the 230th anniversary of the untimely passing of that indispensable man with six hours of non-stop Amadeus. We'll enjoy symphonies, concertos, the "Posthorn" Serenade, chamber music, the sparkling motet "Exsultate, Jubilate" (written when Mozart was 17!), and a performance of the magnificent work that he was composing on his death-bed: the Requiem in D Minor. We begin at noon EST/9:00 AM PST and I hope you'll join us. - Martin

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[BigmanPigman]

1. I bought the DVD of Amadeus the film.

It is well done and got me hooked on Mozart for a long time.

[elleng]

2. It's a GOOD film! and:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10313229

[Aristus]

6. Because of the film, it's almost impossible to think of Mozart's death

without hearing the string intro to the Lacrimosa from the Requiem.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Historically, it's absolute nonsense...

[Patterson]

4. In 1991, the 200th anniversary of his death, i was in Salzburg and spent an afternoon in his...

apartment and listened to the string quartet on the sidewalk playing his music.

[elleng]

5. Oh.