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"In its most general form the ideology of 1789 was the masonic one expressed with such innocent sublimity in Mozart's Magic Flute (1791), one of the earliest of the great propagandist works of art of an age whose highest artistic achievements so often belonged to propaganda." [Hobsbawm: Revolution, p. 58-9] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at the age of thirty-five just 2 months after the premier of The Magic Flute in Vienna. He was buried in an unmarked grave. [Furtado: 1001 Days]