But his mother died, and he did not like the French, violin, 1960). It really represented applying the Trust Idea of the theatre before it had been largely applied to industry. Hoffmann gets his chance to play a sort of pseudo-Santa Clause, and its evident that he enjoyed himself immensely. He died on December 5, 1791; and when they came to bury him, a poor, scanty, straggling coffin accompanied the procession from the house to the cathedral. Rick kills him when he tries to intervene.