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The People who attended Mozart's funeral: |
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Considering that no records can be found on who was at Mozart's funeral, it is impossible to know who actually attended his funeral ceremony. This is where all of the opinions and facts about Mozart's death start to become quite unsubstantial and unreliable. The only reliable sources that are known are documents and receipts, but the accuracy of those documents have also been disputed. Though a funeral did take place, it was not even shown in the movie, Amadeus, by Peter Shaffer. Baron von Swieten was in charge of all the funeral arrangements. He took into consideration the family's financial situation and arranged for Mozart a third class funeral. According to the cathedral receipts 8fl. 56kr*(which included 4fl. For parish charges and 4fl. 20kr. For church expenses) was paid. A fee for the hearse, 3 fl. was also paid. The following people have been recalled, over the years, in various biographies, as being at Mozart's funeral ceremony at St. Stephen's: Süssmayr, the orchestra conductor at Shikaneder's theatre, van Swieten, Orsler the cellist, Deiner, Roser, Albrechtsberger, Antonio Salieri, and Constanze's brothers Hofer and Lange. Though none of these names have actually been confirmed as being at the ceremony, it may give a rough idea of who may have attended the service. (Carr, 1983, 135) Basically, at 2:30 in the afternoon of December 6th, 1791, Mozart's corpse is taken to the cathedral. After the ceremony the coffin was carried out to the funeral wagon that had been waiting. (Landon, 1988, 170) From here, the world is lost as to where Mozart's body actually lays.
*fl. stands for florin (the gulden) kr. or xr. stand for kreutzer. The gulden = 60 kr. |
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