At fifty-five minutes past midnight on December 5th, 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died. [View all]

He was 35 years old. His wife, Constanza, who had been on her knees praying for hours, began to weep uncontrollably and crawled into Wolfgang’s bed to embrace his body. Later that day, she wrote into her husband’s notebook, “O, would that I were soon joined to you forever.”

A few weeks later, the news reached Mozart’s old friend Franz Joseph Haydn in London. He wrote to his publisher in Vienna, "I cannot believe that Providence would so soon claim the life of such an indispensable man.”

On this week's Sunday Show, we'll note the 230th anniversary of the untimely passing of that indispensable man with six hours of non-stop Amadeus. We'll enjoy symphonies, concertos, the "Posthorn" Serenade, chamber music, the sparkling motet "Exsultate, Jubilate" (written when Mozart was 17!), and a performance of the magnificent work that he was composing on his death-bed: the Requiem in D Minor. We begin at noon EST/9:00 AM PST and I hope you'll join us. - Martin

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