The Requiem Mass in D minor K 626 is the latest composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was left unfinished at the death of the author. The work is linked to the controversial case of his death, which occurred on the day following the completion of the vocal parts of the Confutatis maledictis. In Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio (1815), Stendhal speaks of an anonymous client who instructs Mozart fell ill and in misery, to compose a requiem mass in four weeks, for a fee of fifty ducats. According to Stendhal, Mozart attempted to discover the mysterious buyer and when the forces began to fail him for the hard work, he became convinced that this would be the requiem mass of his funeral. At the expiry of the four weeks, the man showed up to pick up the composition, but Mozart was not yet completed: offered fifty ducats and another four weeks time, unnecessary, since Mozart died leaving the work unfinished. A popular but unfounded legend has it that the Italian composer Antonio Salieri - envious of the talent of Mozart - forced the deterioration of the already sick colleague. This legend has been fueled by Aleksander Pushkin in his play Mozart and Salieri (1830), resumed in the seventies in the play Amadeus by Peter Shaffer (1978) from which the director Miloš Forman drew his Amadeus (1984). - cit. Save the Classic and with my bad translation
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