On 5 December 1791, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
died
at his home in Vienna, Austria at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have attracted much research and speculation.
What was Mozart's illness?
Throughout his life Mozart suffered frequent attacks of tonsillitis. In 1784 he developed
post-streptococcal Schönlein-Henoch syndrome
which caused chronic glomerular nephritis and chronic renal failure. His fatal illness was due to Schönlein-Henoch purpura, with death from cerebral haemorrhage and bronchopneumonia.
Why did Mozart die at the age of 35 years?
In November 1791 the composer fell ill with a serious disease and died two weeks later at the age of 35. The death certificate states he died
of “severe miliary fever”
. Exactly which disease led to Mozart's death has been a mystery for the last 200 years.
What disease did Mozart get as a child?
In 1767, the 11-year-old composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was struck by smallpox.
What happened to Mozart's wife and son?
The death of Mozart and its aftermath
After Mozart died, Constanze, then 29, paid all the family's debts. She had little money, said Encyclopedia.com, so she and her two sons lived with her family. …
Franz died
July 29, 1844.
Who killed Mozart due to jealousy?
In 1898, Rimsky-Korsakov turned Pushkin's play into an opera. In both, it is suggested that
Salieri's
jealousy of Mozart led him to poison the younger composer. The murder plot was perpetuated in Peter Shaffer's hugely successful 1979 play, Amadeus.
Who killed Mozart?
Salieri
suffered a physical and mental breakdown in the autumn of 1823, was admitted to the Vienna general hospital, and in a deranged state of mind, accused himself of having killed Mozart. Quickly rumors spread throughout Vienna. References to them appear in Beethoven's conversation books of the time.
At what age Mozart died?
At 12:55 a.m., 225 years ago, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart drew his last breath. Later, he was unceremoniously buried in a common grave — as was the custom of his era — in the St. Marx cemetery, just outside the Vienna city limits. Mozart was only
35
.
Was Mozart's body ever found?
The bones were recovered when a Mozart family grave was opened in 2004 at Salzburg's Sebastian Cemetery. Mozart died in 1791 and was buried in a pauper's grave at Vienna's St. Mark's Cemetery. The location of the grave was initially
unknown
, but its likely location was determined in 1855.
Did Mozart really have a crazy laugh?
Though there are dubious historical reports that
the real Mozart had an obnoxious laugh
, Tom Hulce created the giggle after Milos Forman asked him to come up with “something extreme.” “I've never been able to make that sound except in front of a camera,” Hulce later said.
Who did Mozart marry?
Maria Constanze Cäcilia Josepha Johanna Aloysia Mozart
(née Weber) (5 January 1762 – 6 March 1842) was a trained Austrian singer. She was married twice, first to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; then to Georg Nikolaus von Nissen.
At what age did Mozart marry?
Today is Mozart's wedding anniversary. It was on Sunday, August 4, 1782, that Wolfgang Amadeus and Constanze Weber were married in St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. He was
26
, she just 20.
What did Mozart think of himself?
“Mozart did not subscribe to the Romantic cult of genius, and he did not create art for art's sake.” Indeed, Mozart did not think of
himself as writing music for the ages
, but for the task at hand. As to a fatal rivalry with composer Antonio Salieri, that's another popular idea upon which Swafford throws cold water.
Who hated Mozart?
Gossip that
Salieri
hated Mozart or even tried to poison him seems to have originated after Mozart's death in 1791. Though Salieri mourned Mozart at his funeral and even later taught Mozart's son, he was soon linked with ugly accusations that he had caused the composer's demise.
