In Vienna’s graveyard, next to the funerary monuments of Schubert and Beethoven, there is also a Memorial dedicated to one of the most distinguished composers of classical music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The visitors keep coming regularly and in large numbers to pay their respect to the music genius, but they do not realize they are victims of a deception: nobody knows precisely where Mozart was actually buried , not even his next of kin.
Mozart was interred with so many others in a common grave with the result that q few days later his corpse ceased to be identifiable with some degree of certainty. His wife Constanze did everything to throw some light onto the enigma that enveloped the composer’s death, but finding herself hampered at every step, she eventually left both Vienna and Austria. When in later life she married Baron Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, she again set off on her fact finding quest and came to the conclusion that Mozart had been murdered.
Indeed, for an unusual long time the Italian composer Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) had been suspected of poisoning Mozart. But although Salieri in more than one occasion acted against the interest of our composer, he surely never killed him.