Antonio Salieri, a man of less than monkish virtue, and of very little talent,
Falsely promised the deliverance of Jerusalem from infidel hands,
This was a lie. All his music and words were packed full of lies and thefts.
At the age of 35 Amadeus Mozart fell ill. Mozart was prodigious producing:
Opera buffa such as Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte
Opera seria such as Idomeneo and Die Zauberflote
Mozart’s final illness was spent writing his Requiem: his meditation upon death. Death drove the silence in between the notes.
Mozart was nursed by his wife, Constanze. Was Mozart poisoned by Salieri?
Who knows? Salieri was proud and the sin of pride is the sin of sins.
It was this sin which transformed Lucifer, an anointed cherub of God,
The very seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty,
Into Satan, the devil, the father of lies, the one for whom Hell itself was created.
Mozart was interred in a common grave, a pauper’s grave at Sankt Marxer Friedhof
Salieri, Süssmayr, van Swieteand and two other musicians were present.
They were assured of his death and breathed more easily as a consequence.
The tale of a storm and snow on his brutal burial day is false;
The day was calm and mild, fit for all of the absent mourners.