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MOZART, SÜβMAYR, AND MUSICAL PROPOGANDA

Postscript again before the end of the decade. Notwithstanding the

The fundraising efforts for the Viennese militia ulti- eventual outcome, Der Retter in Gefahr provides a vivid
mately came to naught. The Wiener Freywilligen-Korps snapshot of the political and societal angst that pervaded

saw action as part of the cooperative effort to contain Vienna during the Napoleonic era, and the fi erce loyalty
Napoleon in Italy, but with little success. Vienna was the Austrian people felt toward their Kaiser as the focus
occupied by Napoleon without a shot being fi red in of national identity. It also introduces another contem-
November 1805, two years after Süßmayr’s death, and poraneous means of continued evaluation of Süßmayr’s

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