Last page of the Art of Mozart

< A beautiful painting of Mozart on his deathbed, composing the Requiem. I imagine that's Constanze's hand over his. The artist did a wonderful job with this, look at the variation of skin color between Stanzi and Wolfi! It's amazing!

A portrait of one of Mozart's friends, librettist Emanuel Schickaneder. Scary lookin' isn't he? >

<A beautiful print of a wood carving done in the 1800's showing Mozart last moments. *sniff* So sad...

< This is actually an animated version of a scene from Amadeus but it's still art that shows Mozart's habit of composing at his pool table.

Constanze and Wolfgang had eight children, of them two survived past infancy. This is a painting of those two.  Carl Mozart and Franz Xaver Mozart (Later re-named Wolfgang Amadeus after Mozart's death) Karl was seven years old when his father died and Franz Xaver was hardly seven months. Carl took his fathers death very hard being as sensitive as Mozart had been. It was Franz Xaver however that inherited Mozart's unusual and deformed ear. Franz Xaver is shown here with his deformed ear covered up, as deformities were not take lightly back then. He probaby didn't have to go through the degee of ridicule his father did, but it was still looked upon as a disease or sign of the devil and he was treated unfairly. >

This is an unusual find. A jewlry box that plays a Mozart song and on the top has a carving that shows young Mozart performing for a crowd. Really a beautiful piece. >

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