Being multi-lingual, Mozart frequently adapted his name to other languages and from 1770 onwards he frequently used Amadeo or Amade as his middle name. ‘Theophilus’ is Greek for ‘loved by God’ and it seems that Mozart preferred the Latin translation of the same phrase – Amadeus. The completed version of the Requiem (by Franz Xaver Sussmayr) was played at Mozart’s funeral and also at the re-burial of Napoleon I in 1840and at the funeral of Frederick Chopin’s in 1848.ĭespite the ‘Amadeus’ stage show/film depicting Mozart as being called ‘Wolfie’ as a nickname by his wife Constanze, there is no evidence in any of the contemporaneous material to suggest that this was true.Īlthough we know his name to be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was christened Joannes Chrysostonus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. In the event, he died before he completed it.

He had been ill for some time and his state of mind was clearly playing tricks. Not knowing who wanted the Requiem written, led Mozart to believe that he was being paid to write a Requiem for his own funeral. This was one of many stories that surrounded the final Requiem, each of which needs to be considered carefully. One of Mozart’s most famous compositions, his Requiem, was an anonymous commission from the enigmatic Count Franz von Walsegg who wanted to pretend that he had written it himself for the funeral of his wife. The list also includes Sergei Rachmaninoff, Carl Philippe Emmanuel Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Niccolo Paganini, and modern-day artists Daniel Barenboim and Nicola Benedetti.

Left-handed people are assumed to be generally more creative than their right-handed counterparts Mozart, like many musicians, was left-handed.

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