![]() ![]() But after his death, his widow, Constanze claimed that throughout Mozart’s last painful days he believed he was writing the Requiem for his own funeral. Mozart set this liturgical text to music for a patron who had lost his young wife to illness earlier that year. This Christian funeral rite asks an all-powerful God to accept a human soul into heaven. He was only 35.Īs a Catholic, Mozart would have attended many requiems – church services for the peaceful repose of the dead. The Requiem in D minor was his final work he himself died before completing it. Death wasn’t an abstract idea but pursued him from birth until his death in 1791 – the most productive and successful year of his life. Of his own six children, only two survived. He was the youngest of seven children, five of whom died in infancy. ![]() M ozart knew what it was to experience life interrupted. ![]()
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