Mozart, as the best of the musical 'Brothers,' was welcome in all the lodges." It was headed by the naturalist Ignaz von Born. According to Otto Erich Deutsch, this lodge was "the largest and most aristocratic in Vienna. Mozart also attended the meetings of another lodge, called "Zur wahren Eintracht" ("True Concord"). He was promoted to Fellow on 7 January 1785, and became a Master Mason "shortly thereafter". Mozart was admitted as an Apprentice to the Viennese Masonic lodge called "Zur Wohltätigkeit" ("Beneficence") on 14 December 1784. The Masonic order played an important role in his life and work. Oil painting (1789), Wienmuseum Vienna.įor the last seven years of his life Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Mason. A Masonic lodge meeting of Mozart's day, once thought to portray Mozart's own lodge.
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