Uploaded June 2009 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=f8LIa5HsD2w
1791 was a year of great political change: Louis XVI was beheaded in France; the US Congress adopted the Bill of Rights and the Constitution; and the ideas of Rousseau and the Enlightenment were all pervasive. It was also the year in which Mozart wrote his enigmatic opera 'The Magic Flute' and his renowned Requiem and then died. The mysterious circumstances surrounding the commissioning of the latter work led to the myth that the composer had been murdered.
Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=f8LIa5HsD2w
1791 was a year of great political change: Louis XVI was beheaded in France; the US Congress adopted the Bill of Rights and the Constitution; and the ideas of Rousseau and the Enlightenment were all pervasive. It was also the year in which Mozart wrote his enigmatic opera 'The Magic Flute' and his renowned Requiem and then died. The mysterious circumstances surrounding the commissioning of the latter work led to the myth that the composer had been murdered.
