Brief Candles
Donald Macleod spends this week looking at the all-too-brief lives of some famous composers.
Mozart died at five minutes to one on the morning of Monday 5
December 1791, just two months short of his 36th birthday. The last year of his life was marked by huge successes and severe poverty, and by great joy and deep depression, yet he produced some of his greatest work, including piano concertos, symphonies, the opera Die
Zauberflote and, quite prophetically, the D minor Requiem that he left unfinished at his death.
Editor Andrew Lyle
SOUNDING THE CENTURY