This is really weird. Even if Haas turned out to be a serial killer, does that make the songs any different? I’m glad if the songs are never sung again, but all these revelations do is confirm that yes, they do come from a diseased and wicked soul.
Perhaps the screenwriters took liberties, but anyone who has watched “Amadeus” could not help but conclude that the composer of “Ave Verum Corpus” had a diseased and wicked soul.
“Blessed are they” is one of the finest 20th century settings of the Beatitudes...and nothing about Haas’s character can take that away.