Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!!!?

Question

Did you know that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a freemason? he wrote all the freemason secrets he knew into his song The Magic Flute. They then poisoned him and that is how he died.

Answer 1

As stated, this really isn't a question, but to clarify - The Magic Flute was Masonically inspired, and Masonically themed, but does not divulge any secrets of Freemasonry, and most of the references aren't even readily distinguishable to the untrained (or unexpected) eye or ear.

Mozart was truly gifted, and was able to construct a beautiful, fanciful, libretto and score around something dear to him without being overt or, in some cases, even perceptible to many. He was also known to incorporate jests, slights, and the composition equivalent of practical jokes in his works. Clever indeed.

Yes, Wolfgang Mozart was a Freemason. His death has never been linked to foul play, however - as stated in a previous comment, it is expected that he perished from illness.

Answer 2

He was a Freemason, alright. Heck, he even wrote a Masonic Funeral Music if anything else isn't obvious. But he was also a born Catholic, certainly did not die from poisoning, and he was not dirt poor.

He died from natural causes, and the strongest historical evidence pointed to rheumatic fever,of which he had three to four attacks since childhood. Rheumatic fever was dangerous because the more it recurs, the worse it gets. Heart and liver gets worse with each attacks, and this corroborated nicely with the accounts of people around Mozart at that time commenting his health. And as for Salieri who was rumoured to have poisoned Mozart, that idea was made sensational by none other than Rimsky-Korsakov, who immortalised this in his opera Mozart and Salieri, and later in the movie Amadeus.

As for the unfinished Requiem (yes, it was not quite finished when Mozart died - incidentally it was finished by Sussmayr and several others) Mozart really did not finish it, and it was comissioned by Count von Walsegg, himself an amateur composer who often like to claim other composer's works as his own.

Hope that clears some of the dust.

Answer 3

del_icio is correct. Mozart was a freemason, and there are references to the freemasons in The Magic Flute. But all that stuff about him being poisoned is probably nonsense.

Rumors that Mozart was poisoned have been around for a long, long time, probably because he died so young (He was almost 36 years old when he died.) But that was more common back then, when people knew less about medicine.

Answer 4

I was aware that he was a Freemason, and I've heard the Magic Flute story a number of times........the poisoning is something I'd yet to hear.

For the record, I have always maintained that Mozart is/was the most gifted composer of all time. He was writing pieces at 12 years old that remain unequaled by many of his adult contemporaries and antecedents.

Evan Vivaldi remarked that he was in a class by himself with regard to composition. And J.S. Bach, and old-man when he met young Amadeus, had nothing but praise, and admiration.

Those are two pretty good endorsements !!

Answer 5

There are some theories but dont belive in the movie Amadeus bcause thats not true according with the researchers One that I like and I read in a book called "Who killed Mozart?" by Jhon Cage was that he had siphilis bcause whe had lots of women and the current treatment for these disease was mercury infusions. He tried them and he died because a mercury poisoning. The doctor who gave didnt want people to know about his mistake so he ask Mozart's wife toas hide and dig Mozart's body as soon as posible, and thats the reason why it was so quickly and nobody knows were is their tumb. in the book there are more information and probes of this theory

Answer 6

Aside from the fact that the story of Mozart's poisoning has been completely debunked (Salieri wished!), the freemasons couldn't possibly kill all of the people who have encoded their secrets into works of art and architecture. In fact, it is their signature for posterity and identifies their secret role in the building of Western Civilization -- and not something they discouraged. Mozart was not spilling the beans, but rather he was planting them.

Answer 7

Yes, it's true that Mozart was a Mason. He wrote a number of pieces for masonic ceremonies. Some even contained special masonic codes.

But NO - Mozart was not murdered by anyone (masonic or otherwise). This is a myth and makes a good story but is, in fact, nonsense.

Answer 8

he used Freemason symbols but not the "secrets" into Magic Flute and as far as the poison theory ... it has been proven false .... it got going and was a good story so it kept going till this day

Answer 9

Yes he was a freemason (so was Haydn) - the rest of what you said is essentially nonsense. He died of Rheumatic fever not poisoning.

Answer 10

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