Society and genius - most of the time it is a difficult relationship. WA was a genius and a very lucky man. From simple background, one third of his life traveling, with a yearly income of 150.000 USD and a great career from his very youth on. He could be sure of the envy of impoverished common people who had to struggle with an income of often far less than 1000 USD a year.

As an artist and a freemason he also had more inner freedom than most people. So he could furthermore be sure of the bitter envy of the upper echelons of society, who were squeezed in a very strict code of family-honor in their daily lives.

And all of a sudden - in the year 1791 - he died. Because of the feeling of envy in the air rumours never stopped, that he might have been poisoned. In the end, the greatest son of Austria was “dumped” on St. Marx graveyard in a common mass grave without even a simple wooden cross.

More than 60 years after his dead the City of Vienna built a monument for him, which was later on removed from St. Marx to Zentralfriedhof. On the original spot of Mozart’s grave - years later again - St. Marx employee Alexander Kogler built another monument made of parts from abandoned graves. This is the one you can see below.