The People who were with Mozart in his final hours:
	Inaccurately, but according to the movie, Amadeus, by Peter Shaffer, the people who were with Mozart at the time of his death were: Antonio Salieri, Constanze, and their son Karl. Unfortunately, several problems arise from this part of the movie. First of all, Salieri was nowhere near the Mozart's home on December 5th, much less helping Mozart transcribe the Requiem. The second problem concerns the fact that they had two children at the time of Mozart's death: Karl Thomas and Franz Xaver. The movie also fails to mention one of the most important people that were with Mozart when he died: Constanze's sister Sophie. It was in Sophie's arms that Mozart passed away. According to something Sophie said to Vincent Novello and subsequently written in his diary, the only people who were with Mozart at his time of death (12:55 a.m., Dec. 5) were Constanze, Dr. Closset and Sophie (Solomon, 1995. 492). Previous to his death, Mozart was a surprisingly busy person; he worked on the Requiem and even held a rehearsal on it. Mozart not only spoke with Süssmeyr on how he wanted the requiem to be finished but left detailed instructions on how to finish it. Only one author did not believe this. The biographer Maynard Solomon stated that: "Improbably, perhaps to bolster her sister's exaggerated accounts about Mozart's role in the completion of the Requiem, Sophie recalled Mozart giving Süssmeyr instructions on completing the Requiem. More Plausibly, she claimed that Mozart's last action 'was an attempt to express with his mouth the drum passages of the Requiem.'" (Solomon, 1995, 493) It is interesting that the author would be more likely to believe the story about mouthing the drum passages over telling a student how to finish a piece that was important to him. Other biographers have also mentioned the story of Mozart mouthing the drum passages he wanted. Besides probably meeting with Süssmeyr, Mozart held a rehearsal of the requiem with three other people. Mozart himself sang the alto part, Schack sang in falsetto (soprano), Hofer sang the tenor part and Gerls sang the bass part. It has been said that the rehearsal went as far as "Dies Irae" until "Mozart had to stop singing and began to weep himself." (Carr, 1983, 127) The other two people who are important to mention are the two doctors (who were two of the best in the area), Dr. Closset and Dr. Matthias von Sallaba. Carr states that "Mozart could not have been in better hands." Baron von Swieten, who visited the house after Mozart had died, started the tale that Constanze laid in bed with Mozart's dead body to become infected with the same disease, so that she might die with her husband. It is unknown whether this tale is true or not. The other person who visited that evening was Count Josef Deym, who went by the name, Müller. He came and took a casting of Mozart's dead face for his waxwork collection. After he died, Mozart was laid in a coffin, set on a bier, and several people came to see him before his body was taken to the cemetery.