Poor Antonio Salieri. In other circumstances, history (or, at least, classical-music buffs) would remember him as Kapellmeister to the Emperor of Austria, a skilled court composer of some forty operas ...
There is mystery and intrigue, a whole “dark and stormy night” thing in the story of how Mozart came to compose his Requiem in D minor, his final work before he died young at the age of 35. But there ...