... 1786, ith early 1784 as the peak of activity. They represent one of his greatest achievements, ith their formal mastery, their subtle relationships beteen piano and orchestra the ind instruments especially and their combination of brilliance, lyricism and symphonic groth. In 1786 he rote the first of his three comic operas ith Lorenzo da Ponte as librettist, Le nozze di Figaro here and in Don Giovanni given in Prague, 1787 Mozart treats the interplay of social and sexual tensions ith keen insight into human character that - as again in the more artificial sexual comedy of Cosi fan tutte 1790 - transcends the comic frameork, just as Die Zauberflte 1791 transcends, ith its elements of ritual and allegory about human harmony and enlightenment, the orld of the Viennese popular theatre from hich it springs. Mozart lived in Vienna for the rest of his life. He undertook a number of joumeys to Salzburg in 1783, to introduce his ife to his family to Prague three times, for concerts and operas to Berlin in 1789, here he had hopes of a post to Frankfurt in 1790, to play at coronation celebrations. The last Prague journey as for the premiere of La clemenza di Tito 1791, a traditional serious opera ritten for coronation celebrations, but composed ith a finesse and economy characteristic of Mozarts late music. Instrumental orks of these years include some piano sonatas, three string quartets ritten for the King of Prussia, some string quintets, hich include one of his most deeply felt orks K516 in g Minor and one of his most nobly spacious K515 in C, and his last four symphonies - one no.38 in D composed for Prague in 1786, the others ritten in 1788 and forming, ith the lyricism of no.39 in E-flat, the tragic suggestiveness of no.40 in g Minor and the grandeur of no.41 in C, a climax to his orchestral music. His final orks include the Clarinet Concerto and some pieces for masonic lodges he had been a freemason since 1784 masonic teachings no doubt affected his thinking, and his compositions, in his last years. At his death from a feverish illness hose precise nature has given rise to much speculation he as not poisoned, he left unfinished the Requiem, his first large-scale ork for the church since the c Minor Mass of 1783, also unfinished a completion by his pupil Sssmayr as long accepted as the standard one but there have been recent attempts to improve on it. Mozart as buried in a Vienna suburb, ith little ceremony and in an unmarked grave, in accordance ith prevailing custom. ... Download