... Kapellmeister at St. Stephens with no pay. Mozart was already feeling ill in Prague while finishing La clemenza di Tito. Dec. 5, 1791, a few minutes before 1AM, Mozart died of rheumatic fever. How and why the requiem mass was written? All through his adult life, Mozart had powerful feelings that he would die early. He also tended to be superstitious, so when ... her sister Sophie Haibel, along with an ineffectual doctor who dropped by after attending the theater. Nor was Mozart poisoned; his final symptoms are said to be consistent with rheumatic fever and subsequent kidney failure, aft...

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