What was the cause of Mozart's death?

On December 5, 1791, the world of music lost Wolgang Amadeus Mozart. The mystery of his death was never clarified, and several hypotheses were woven into it. The diagnosis issued by the doctor who certified the death was laconic and imprecise: Hitzigas Friesel Fieber (Death by high fever). Clinically, this is a diagnosis that doesn't explain anything... mysteriously, nobody cared to clarify it. Enigmatic, extremely enigmatic. Among numerous theories, they stand out:

Number One Theory:

Mozart died of "rheumatic fever". According to his medical history, it may be the real cause of his death. The Wochembla magazine in Berlin published on December 12, 1791 a laconic note asserting that Mozart's body was inflamed, a symptom of that disease.

Theory Number Two:

Mozart died poisoned by Antonio Salieri, composer and opera director of the Court of Emperor Joseph II, who was attributed with incurable envy against the musician. Various investigations have shown that this theory is apparently absurd.

Theory Number Three:

Mozart was poisoned with "tofana water" by a Mason brother, member of the Court of Emperor Joseph II. "Tofana water" was a mixture of water and arsenic, of delayed action, widely used in the eighteenth century for criminal purposes. Franz Hofdemel, the member of the court, was married to Magdalena Hofdemel, an outstanding pianist in Vienna and a student of Mozart. Believing that his wife was in love with Mozart, Hofdemel tried to murder Magdalena (disfigured her face), poisoned the musician, and then committed suicide. This theory, like so many others, lacks more concrete and proven data.

Theory Number Four:

Mozart was assassinated by the repressive apparatus of Emperor Joseph II and later buried in a mass grave, without identification. There were those who affirmed that Mozart's great operatic successes reflected revolutionary ideas, sowing the fear that they could provoke great changes in the political and social order of the time. Another absurd theory, according to several researchers.

But there are several questions regarding Mozart's death that can never be answered... of facts that are true and produce infinite doubts: Why the speed in burying Mozart's body? Why didn't anyone mark the burial site? Why were funerals performed with mysterious haste?

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Facts about Russian composer Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, Russia, on May 7, 1840.

In 1869 Tchaikovsky composed the Fantasy-Overture Romeo and Juliet, which he would still revise in 1870 and 1880.

In 1875 Tchaikovsky composed Piano Concerto No. 1.

In 1876 he completed the Swan Lake ballet.

Tchaikovsky befriended a wealthy widow named Nadezhda von Meck, who would support him financially for the next 20 years.

In 1889 he composed the ballet Sleeping Beauty.

Tchaikovsky completed the Nutcracker ballet in 1892.

Symphony No. 6 (Pathetic) was premiered in 1893.

Tchaikovsky and her patron, Nadezhda von Meck, conducted their relationship solely on the basis of correspondence during the years she sponsored it.

Tchaikovsky's marriage in 1877 was an immediate disaster, and shortly after his marriage he made arrangements never to see his wife again.

The cause of Tchaikovsky's death is still uncertain: Some authorities believe that his death was accidental, but others contend that he purposely took arsenic or drank water infected with cholera.

His brother Modest was a playwright and librettist who wrote a biography of Tchaikovsky.

Above any other composer, Tchaikovsky adored Mozart. He even once referred to him as "the Christ of music. Of other composers, Wagner bored him while detesting Brahms.

Tchaikovsky struggled with his sexuality and worked hard to keep his homosexuality a secret.

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Interesting facts about Giuseppe Verdi

The great Italian composer, Giuseppe Verdi, was born on 10 October 1813. His parents were Carlo Verdi and Luigia Uttini.

Verdi was characterized in his operas as a highly expressive composer.

At the early age of 3 Verdi already began to play the keyboard.

Giuseppe Verdi is famous for his themes of freedom, heroism and love, great feelings that are evident in his works. He not only composed operas but also marches, symphonies, ecclesiastical and secular music.

Giuseppe Verdi married at the age of 22 Barezzi's daughter, Margherita, with whom he had two children, who unfortunately died at an early age.

Verdi was accused, for his work in his opera Othello, of copying Wagner's style. These accusations were unfounded.

After his first wife died, Verdi married Giuseppina Strepponi, a soprano.

Some of Giuseppe Verdi's most important operas are: Rigoletto, La Traviata and Il Trovatore. Which compose his romantic trilogy.

The conservatory of Milan, which had denied him his entry as a young man, wanted to be renamed with the name of the composer himself, thanks to his popularity and success in his maturity, to which he replied: "They did not want me as a young man, I do not know why they want me as an old man". Today the conservatory bears his name.

Verdi dies in Milan, on January 27, 1901, due to a stroke. A large crowd in the funeral procession will sing the chorus of the slaves of Nabucco ("Va pensiero sull'ali dorate").

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Facts about composer Franz Schubert

It was in Vienna, the city where Franz Schubert, one of the most gifted composers of the 19th century, was born.

Schubert (January 31, 1797) was the twelfth of 13 brothers. The family lived in the Liechtental district.

His music teacher soon became aware of his talent and went so far as to say to him: "I have nothing more to teach you, knowledge you have received from the good God".

Shubert's beautiful voice allowed him to enter the choir of the Imperial Chapel and the Royal Seminary, where he would later study composition with Salieri.

Franz Schubert composed his first symphony in 1813.

Schubert composed more than 600 songs (lieder), many of them inspired by poems by Goethe, Schiller, and Heine.

In October 1822, Schubert began his famous Symphony in B minor, commonly called The Unfinished.

Except for a circle of admirers who were among the most notable artists of the period, Schubert gained little recognition before his death, and generally lived in economic hardship.

During his lifetime Franz Schubert could not premiere any of his operatic or orchestral works.
Franz Schubert got a job as a private music teacher for the children of a Hungarian nobleman.

The schubertiadas were gatherings of artists who formed a bright, festive circle dedicated to music and reading, where the central figure was Schubert.

Franz Schubert lived only 31 years, a syphilis, finally complicated with a typhoid fever, led him to death on November 19, 1828. In so few years Schubert managed to compose a musical work excellent for its great beauty and inspiration.

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