Amadeus Mozart's death

The death of amadeus mozart in the Milos Forma film Amadeus.

[johnkiunke]

In mozart's catalogue that he kept of his pieces, there are around 20 blank pages. Seems dumb, but It's pretty powerful because it signifies 20 pages of music he would have written if he had lived longer.

[LinA-fvik]

I don't want to imagine what he would have composed if he didn't die so early...

[DZPianoMusic]

as someone who knows Mozart's music well (I've played most of of his piano sonatas, and piano fantasies), it's fascinating to think where his music would have gone in the early 19th century. Had Mozart lived to 1820 (near 65 years old), his music would have grown into the "romantic period" … It's staggering to imagine what he'd have done, with less structural restrictions … the effect on Beethoven, Chopin, and every 19th century composer would have been even MORE profound …

[FallenAngel]

This is sad not just because Mozart is dead, but seeing how they treated him after death is just heartbreaking. Just toss him in with others like he was nothing....so tragic.

[JACK-gikd]

This scene used to scare the shit out of me

[DeepFriedBeans]

one of the most brilliant musicians to ever live and created some of the most beautiful music, yet no one even knows where his body is to this day

[Amanda-mcve]

He didnt deserve the least bit to be buried in a pauper's graveyard, he was so wonderful

[TheGhostGirl]

I like Mozart's laugh. At my school I'm watching this movie. When Mozart laughed, the whole class laughed too XD

[bcing]

This whole scene is so powerful... especially when the cut goes to the priest clutching his crucifix with the gorgeous Lacrimosa playing. Brings chills up my spine every time.

[johnsonken]

This scene just haunts me because of how carelessly they dispose of the body.

[Amedeus]

... that day was probably one the saddest in the history of mankind.

[axlplays]

He wasn't really buried in a mass grave, though. The term "common grave" was confused by mass grave when it really meant it was a commoner's grave (as opossed to an aristocrat grave), since this was the custom done in Vienna back then. Problem is that common graves could be digged up 10 years after and reused again for another burial, something which the aristocrat graves didn't had to deal with, hence the confussion. 

[ZaddyGohan]

How ironic that he perished while writing his Requiem Mass for the Dead

[doubleg]

Constanza's screaming just kills my heart each time I hear it.

[PunkHippie]

Honestly it wasn’t until i watched this movie the second or third time that i realized just how dark the ending of this movie actually is. The cheerful funny portion of the film seemed to overtake it for me. But how it goes from so positive and happy to watching Mozart’s body dumped into a mass grave while accompanied by a piece he wrote about his own death is just riveting.

[ssarmazi]

If you watch this movie and don't get teared up at this scene...then you're surely made of stone.

[andyt]

The costume design in this film was spectacular.

[papillonvu]

What is truly hurtful about this scene is that Salieri could’ve easily paid for Mozart to have an honorable burial with dignity, in a properly marked grave for others to pay their respects to this genius if a maestro.

Instead he opted to let Mozart’s body be lost and forgotten, possibly hoping that Mozart’s music would slowly disappear with him as well, so that Salieri could regain his position at the upper echelon of the Viennese music scene.

[marte]

He was just 35...Requiescat in pace...

[cek]

i was sad but then old salieris cut off laugh at the end i started laughing