Most orchestras have clauses in their contracts that make sure the musicians do not ever appear outdoors in direct sunlight, or without a cover over them in case of rain. Both sunlight and water can inflict devastating damage on classical acoustic instruments.
Albrecht Mayer is one of the few solo oboists, and he performs regularly throughout the world as a concerto soloist. He also has ten albums to his name, and he is among the best oboe soloists currently performing. He is also the co-principal oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Gustav Mahler lived the last three years of his life in New York, where he conducted at the Metropolitan Opera, and the New York Philharmonic. Just before arriving in the U.S., his 4-year-old daughter died, and he was diagnosed with a fatal heart infection. Not long after that he discovered his wife, Alma, was having an affair.
In addition to playing tympanist Dee Dee, actor John Miller is also a bass player and he has contracted the musicians for over 100 Broadway shows.
That Salieri poisoned Mozart is a fiction popularized in Peter Shaffer's play, Amadeus. In the 1780s in Vienna, Mozart felt that Italians led by Salieri were putting up obstacles to his career. Mozart's father, Leopold, blamed the Italian composers in general, and Salieri in particular, for all of Mozart's career difficulties in Vienna.