Originally posted by DiapasonYeah, death can sometimes be really inconvenient.
Wikipedia's article on Süßmayr's life finishes with the following sentences:
His marriage plans came to nil because of his premature death. He is remembered now mostly for his completion of the Mozart Requiem.
Yep - that premature death thing would mess up marriage plans!
Originally posted by DiapasonI hate those books too. It always waters down the quality.
Ah - but was it really Mozart's Requiem, or rather "Mozart's Requiem", by Mozart and Sussmayer (or whoever)?
I feel short-changed by the lowered Mozart quota. I want my Mozart to be 100% pure Wolfgang Amadeus and not 'sweetened' by anyone else!
It's almost as bad as those books that say on the cover: "by ARTHUR C CLARKE" (in big type) and then "& Someone Else you have never heard of" (in tiny writing).
Hmmph.