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Originally Posted by orlok
I'm pretty sure this was a question on University Challenge (UK) just last week. Is it Mozart?
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It is! Interesting coincidence, what's University Challenge?
Mozart bought the starling in 1784 when he heard it singing a snippet of what was probably a folk tune. He had used that same tune in the third movement of a piano concerto he had finished a couple months prior.
When the starling died three years later he held a funeral at which he read the poem by the side of the starling's grave (I would have thought Mozart to be a better poet, but maybe it's not so bad in the original German).
You're up, Orlok.