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Ever posponed studying for the exams until the night before? Delayed working on a project for months only to work like a maniac night and day gulping coffee the final week before it's due? Felt guilty about it?
Remember, there is always Mozart, who became a "patron saint" of preparation for exams ( all those playlists "Study with Mozart" claiming to raise one's IQ , to help concentrate etc 🤣) as he was the procrastinator-in-chief. There are close to 100 unfinished works by Mozart, some - done 99%, some - only in fragments. The most famous one is Requiem, of course. Thanks to movies and books we blame that old guy Salieri, rather unfairly so ( after all, if Salieri was so bad and couldn't bear talented competition, why would he "discover" and agree to teach for free young, unknown and very poor, Franz Shubert?). Requiem is the most tragic story of procrastination. Mozart took the project and received the advance payment in mid-July with promise to deliver the composition in four weeks. But he procrastinated, writing other, smaller and not nearly as significant, works meanwhile. It was only in mid-October that he started working day and night on his final project, like a man obsessed (and behind all deadlines). It's entirely possible that the day-and-night work on Requiem did the final blow to his already frail health and ultimately caused his death, not some fiction poison...
This beautiful Fantasy was written in Vienna almost a decade before he passed away.
Written 99%. He never finished it. The last few measures (on video from approximately 6:12 marking) were added later, in order to publish the piece after his death. And here we are entering the uncharted territory, because we have no indication whether he wanted to have a happy ending, a tragic ending, or was this piece a prelude to something else.
Nevertheless this unfinished gem remains one of the most touching and popular Mozart works, paradoxically.
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