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What did he actually die of? Mozart's medical history is like an inverted pyramid: a small corpus of primary documentation supports a large body of secondary literature. There is a small quantity of direct eyewitness testimony concerning the last illness and death and a larger quantity of reporting of what eye witnesses are alleged to have said.
In 1767, the 11-year-old composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was struck by smallpox.Like all smallpox victims, he was at serious risk of dying, but he survived the disease. This article discusses smallpox as it existed in Mozart's time, the decision taken in 1764 by Mozart's father Leopold not to inoculate his children against the disease, the course of Mozart's illness, and the afterma
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [a] [b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died after a short illness on 5 December 1791, aged 35. His reputation as a composer, already strong during his lifetime, rose rapidly in the years after his death, and he became (as he has remained to this day) one of the most celebrated of all composers.
20 November: Mozart is confined to bed due to his illness. 5 December: Mozart dies shortly after midnight. 7 December: Burial in St. Marx Cemetery. 5 December – 10 December: Kyrie from Requiem completed by unknown musician (once identified as Mozart's pupil Franz Jakob Freystädtler, although this attribution is not generally accepted now)
Mozart and Eybler remained friends to the end. As Eybler wrote: "I had the good fortune to keep his friendship without reservation until he died, and carried him, put him to bed and helped to nurse him during his last painful illness." [3] After Mozart's death, Constanze Mozart asked Eybler to complete her husband's Requiem. Eybler tried but ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death report showed this non-specific, by today's standards, term. [ 1 ] After subsequent advances in medicine, this term fell into disuse, supplanted by other more specific names of diseases, for example the modern miliary tuberculosis .
Mozart's wardrobe appears to have been purchased according to the latest fashion; according to H. C. Robbins Landon, musicologist and specialist in Mozart's life and works, he probably had to acquire elegant clothes for the coronation festivities in Frankfurt, [44] [note 11] for attendance at public concerts and private receptions. [37]