sentences:  Benedikt Schack, Mozart's close friend for whom he wrote the role of Tamino in "The Magic Flute", told an interviewer that on the last day of Mozart's life, he participated in a rehearsal of the "Requiem" in progress.Schack's questionable account appeared in an obituary for Schack which was published in the 25 July 1827 issue of the "Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung"