Mozart's (Not So) Last Aria: A Surviving Amadeus

Simple, what if Mozart had lived. While the conspiracy theories abound that Salieri poisoned him or that "the man in black" killed him through overwork, etc, it's most likely he died of natural causes.

A few weeks before Mozart died he was offered a post at St. Stephen's Cathedral - but he died before he could take it up. What might the effect on the world of music be if Herr Mozart recovered to take up said post.
 
Simple, what if Mozart had lived. While the conspiracy theories abound that Salieri poisoned him or that "the man in black" killed him through overwork, etc, it's most likely he died of natural causes.

A few weeks before Mozart died he was offered a post at St. Stephen's Cathedral - but he died before he could take it up. What might the effect on the world of music be if Herr Mozart recovered to take up said post.

Mozart being Mozart, he likely loses said post within a year. Mozart loved to rant about his various "enemies" working against him, but trust me, they didn't have to. (Also, most of them weren't really even his enemies to begin with, but Wolfgang needed to people to blame who weren't him...)
 
Mozart being Mozart, he likely loses said post within a year. Mozart loved to rant about his various "enemies" working against him, but trust me, they didn't have to. (Also, most of them weren't really even his enemies to begin with, but Wolfgang needed to people to blame who weren't him...)

Agreed, Wolfie was as said in Amadeus "a child" who never grew up. But personally (and possibly influenced by my sixth grade music teacher who was a bit of a Mozartophile) I think Mozart would've benefited more from the results of the French Revolution which broke down the extreme class barriers of his day. Also it might have had interesting effects on Beethoven who never got a chance to study with him since he died around the same time as Magdalena von Beethoven. Beethoven studied with Haydn instead (and was a difficult student to an exacting teacher).
 
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Agreed, Wolfie was as said in Amadeus "a child" who never grew up. But personally (and possibly influenced by my sixth grade music teacher who was a bit of a Mozartophile) I think Mozart would've benefited more from the results of the French Revolution which broke down the extreme class barriers of his day. Also it might have had interesting effects on Beethoven who never got a chance to study with him since he died around the same time as Magdalena von Beethoven. Beethoven studied with Haydn instead (and was a difficult student to an exacting teacher).

I don't see Mozart and Ludwig Van getting on very well. It's the simple fact that two egos of that size in the same room will produce trouble.

Now--what interests me is what happens when Karl Maria von Weber meets his in-law?
 
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