Beginning in 1786 at the first hearing of Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro, we’ll explore the stream of masterpieces, including operas, symphonies, piano concertos, and chamber works that Mozart wrote in the last five years of his life. He was in his early thirties, navigating the political life of a court composer in Vienna, while partying with the passion of a young man, and all the while producing one masterpiece after another. On November 20, 1791, Mozart took to his bed, yet he still brought in one of his protégés to write down notes and phrases. On December 5, Mozart died, leaving his Requiem Mass unfinished. From these years alone, Mozart left a body of work that expresses a universe of imagination and emotions.
Mozart at his Zenith
A man on a mountain above the clouds
