The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) led a life that was dramatic in many respects, including his career as a child prodigy, his struggles to achieve personal independence and establish a career, his brushes with financial disaster, and his death in the course of attempting to complete his Requiem.
Authors of fictional works have found his life a compelling source of raw material.
In 1930, Buñuel used his Ave Verum Corpus in L'Age d'Or,[18] Papageno's "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" from The Magic Flute features in The Blue Angel (1930),[19] the "Rondo alla Turca" in the 1939 film Wuthering Heights,[20] "Là ci darem la mano" in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945),[21] "Il mio tesoro" in Kind Hearts and Coronets,[22] the Symphony No.
34 in Vertigo (1958),[23] Eine kleine Nachtmusik in The Ipcress File (1965) and in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975),[24] the Piano Concerto No.
21 in Elvira Madigan,[25] and in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), the march from Idomeneo in Barry Lyndon (1975),[26] the Jupiter Symphony in Annie Hall (1977),[27] and many others.