WHO MURDERED MOZART 2 SAMARKAND

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Salieri was certainly one suspect and the rumours of the Stranger in Black ciruclated but it has also come to light that just before his death, Mozart was invited to a Masonic banquet given by his fellow Freemasons, among whom were the jealous husbands of besotted female pupils of the composer, still only 34. The actual development of his fatal fever are very concurrent with the effects of aqua tofana, a deadly poison , which is a clear liquid and needs only to be spread lightly on to the skin of the victim to have fatal consequences, so this is another possibility.`
The identity of the Stranger in Black is now thought to be a go between sent by the patron who had commissioned the work on which Mozart was working. Mozart was under the impression that it was being comissioned in the ussual way by an Austrian nobleman the Count von Walsegg for performance as a funeral mass for the Count*s recently deceased wife. This was partially true except that the Count had a eccentric notion of having lesser composers write works for him and having them performed at small social gatherings but putting his OWN name on the manuscripts, thus giving his close friend the impression that he was a composer. Plaiarism in fact! When Mozart died without completing the work his wife Constanza decided to get a minor composer named Sussmayer to add the finishing touches and gave it to the Count who did in fact put his own name on it for its debutperformance. By a strange twist of fate, one century later, Johann Strauss senior died and his sons, the Waltz Kings of Vienna were looking for a grandiose piece for their fathers funeral mass and somewhow came upon the Requiem which was performed again. Subsequent examination of it had it re-ascribed to its rightful crator Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is unlikely, therefore that the servant who was negotiating the transaction, would kill the composer before the work was completed so it leaves Antonio Salieri or the Freemason coterie of husbands as chief suspects.`
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 a short but very productive and full life overshadowed at the end by the darkness of malice, intrigue and murder.`
Our consolation is that at any given moment, somewhere in the world , his music is being played.

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