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At the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair, the Austrian government exhibited the original autograph manuscript of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D Minor. During the exhibition, a corner of a page of that manuscript was torn off and stolen. According to many musicologists, that missing fragment contains the last four words ever written by Mozart. Was it the thief a madman intent on mutilating one of the great relics in music history? Or an expert, who, knowing the fragment contained the last written words of the musical genius, sought to gain a fortune by selling it on the underground market. Or even, perhaps, a Mozart devotee who wanted to possess the composer’s treasured last words for himself. Whatever the case, the whereabouts of that precious piece of Mozart’s handwritten manuscript remains a mystery to this day, more than sixty years later. In Mozart’s Last Words, a recently retired chief inspector of the Brussels Police Department collaborates with an MI6 agent from London to retrieve the Mozart fragment from Neo-Nazi terrorists.