I saw a story about Edgar Allan Poe’s death on Mysteries at the Museum and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on Monumental Mysteries on the Travel Channel. The first was a visit to the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore has a room dedicated to Poe along with memorabilia. Some forensic scientists think that Poe died from rabies that he received from one of his pet cats. In the second program, we visit a statue of Mozart in Prospect Park in Brooklyn. I guess they didn’t want to travel all the way to Europe to show a monument there put by his admirers but wanted to save money. From the descriptions of Mozart’s death at age 35, many forensic scientists think he simply died from strep throat when an epidemic took its toll in Vienna. Soldini, a rival, who claimed to have poisoned Mozart, was a raving lunatic when he made the claim. His wife hyped the mystery surrounding his death in order to get more money for the music manuscripts left behind. The “mysterious man in gray” turned out to be a messenger from an Austrian nobleman who had commissioned a requiem in honor of his recently deceased wife. I enjoyed watching both shows.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 05:07:58 +0000
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