| Birth: | Jan. 27, 1756 | | Death: | Dec. 5, 1791 | 
Composer, Pianist, Violinist. Mozart was a child prodigy who composed miraculous works as a child. He composed his first symphonies at age eight and his first operas at age twelve. From the age of six he toured Europe with his father and sister giving concerts before astonished crowds. His audiences included the nobility of the Europe and even the Pope. Despite his genius Mozart was never fully appreciated during his own lifetime and was better known as a performer than a composer. He died in relative poverty at age 35 and was given the standard burial of the day - a mass grave in St. Marx cemetary. Perhaps no other composer has had so many legends develop surrounding their death. The composer Antonio Salieri, in a deathbed confession, tried to take credit for murdering Mozart. There was a popular rumor that Mozart's Masonic Lodge had assassinated him for betraying lodge secrets in his opera "Die Zauberflste", but this has never been proven. In 1901 a skull, whose owners claimed belonged to Mozart was given to the Salzburg Mozarteum. The story of the skull is that Joseph Rothmayer, Mozart's gravedigger, claimed to have rescued it from oblivion during a reorganization (pulverizing of the bones so that the plot could be reused) of the burial plot where Mozart's remains were in 1801. Examination of the skull by a French team of forensic scientists proves only that it could be that of the composer. It also showed that whoever the original owner of the skull was that they died of chronic haematoma possibly resulting from a fall. Chronic haematoma would account for the depression and dizziness Mozart complained of experiencing before death. The Mozarteum has not accepted the findings of the French team and has been conducting its own studies. For futher information see "Archeology" - March / April 1991: "The Mystery of Mozart's Skull" and the book 'After the Funeral: The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses' by Edwin A. Murphy. A monument to Mozart was erected in 1859 in the St. Marx Friedhof on the approximate spot where Mozart's bones are believed to be buried. It was relocated to the Vienna Zentralfriedhof in 1891. Another monument - that of an angel with a saddened face stands guard over the grave in St. Marx today.
Cause of death: Millary Fever
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Zentralfriedhof
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Vienna
Vienna (Wien), Austria
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Record added: Jan 01, 2001
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