The composers last words do not always relate to their work.
Richard Wagner Last Work Parsifal
Last Words “I feel Lousy”
W A Mozart Last Work Requiem
Last Words “The taste of death is upon my lips”
Joseph Hayden Last Work Emperor String Quartet Op 76
Last Words “Children be comforted, I am well”
Franz Schubert Last Work Piano Sonata in D flat major
Last Words “Here, here is my end”
Richard Strauss Last Work Four Last Songs
Last Words “I would have given anything to have written Mozarts Clarinet Concerto”
Frederic Chopin Last Work Sonata for Cello and Piano
Last Words “Now is my final agony. No more”
Ludwig van Beethoven Last Work New Finale to String Quartet in B flat major
Last Words “Pity. Pity, too late” (This referred to a late wine delivery)
Antonin Dvorak Last Work The Opera Armida
Last Words “I feel a bit dizzy. I think I’ll go and lie down”
Edvard Greig Last Work Four Psalms Op 74
Last Words “Well if it must be so”
Felix Mendelssohn Last Work Songs without words
Last Words “Weary weary weary”
Franz Liszt Last Work Bagatelle sand Tonalite
Last Words “Tristan”
Johann Sebastian Bach Last Work Before They Throne I stand
Last Words “Don't cry for me for I go to where music is born”
From notes provided by Bill Squires. From now on, Bill Squires will be the Convenor of the Music Appreciation Group.
Neville Gibb