All the Scattered Pages

All The Scattered Pages by Jared Gollob is a two-act historical drama set in 1829 that traces Vincent and Mary Novello's emotionally charged pilgrimage through Salzburg and Vienna to uncover the lost truths behind Mozart's Requiem. Prompted by their own lingering grief over the death of their young son and driven by Vincent's dual identity as a devout musician and ambitious music publisher, the Novellos seek out Mozart's family, friends, and former students. Along the way, they interview the widow Constanze, the composer's son Franz Xaver Wolfgang, and others who guard pieces of the composer's legacy.

The play explores themes of artistic legacy, grief, authenticity, and ambition. As the Novellos peel back the layers of myth and manipulation surrounding the Requiem's completion, they confront shifting narratives, personal agendas, and their own need for meaning in the wake of loss. At its core, the play dramatizes the tension between public preservation and private mourning, and the ways in which the past can be reassembled―or obscured―by those left behind.

Combining historical fact with fictionalized introspection, Gollob's script is richly textured with philosophical dialogue, period detail, and dramatic confrontation. In the end, the search for the "real" Mozart becomes inseparable from the Novellos' own need for remembrance, redemption, and relevance. The final scenes and epilogue poignantly blur the boundary between memory and presence, fact and feeling, leaving the audience with haunting questions about legacy, love, and the price of truth.

Jared Gollob is a physician-scientist who grew up in New Jersey and was educated at Columbia University, where Mozart's famed librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte became its first professor of Italian in 1825. His Columbia connection to Da Ponte, and being born one day after Mozart on January 28th, instilled in him a lifelong passion for Mozart and his music. All the Scattered Pages is his first play.