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Article: Affluent paupers: Wolfgang and Constanze Mozart.
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 2, 1992
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"BELIEVE me, my sole purpose is to make as much money as possible; for after good health it is the best thing to have." So wrote Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his fater from Vienna on April 4th 1781. Just about everybody believes the composer failed to achieve his purpose. Peter Shaffer has Mozart dying without a florin to his name in his play "Amadeus", which when it was turned into a film won an Oscar in 1984 for its director, Milos Forman. The poverty of the composer is confirmed by reference books. According to the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, Mozart was so poor he was buried in a pauper's grave after his death at the age of 35 in 1791.
But these "facts" ...
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