The Assassination of Mozart
Mozart was famous. He had just completed the Magic Flute. But when he died suddenly and unexpectedly in 1791 his body vanished into an unknown grave. There were rumours of enemies: of poison and assassination. Rumours which, fifty years later, cause Jason Otis, a young American musician and composer, and his bride, to investigate the circumstances of Mozart's death and funeral. The search takes them to New York, London, Salzburg and a forbidding police state - Vienna. It involved Beethoven and Schubert, the Emperor, Prince Metternich, the women in Mozart's life, and Salieri - the Imperial Kapellmeister, and the composer's bitterest enemy. It lays bare a world that is pitiless, corrupt and devastating. Against it stands the genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, struggling between the sacred and profane.