Actually, his death came rather suddenly and he was working on a requiem that someone had commissioned from him under rather mysterious circumstances and he began to think of it as his own requiem, and indeed, he didn't actually finish it.

其实,他的死来的比较突然,那时他正在谱写,由一个神秘人物委托的《安魂曲》,而且他开始把它当成了自己的安魂曲,而事实是,他其实并没有完成这部作品

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