Mozart's Cause of Death Revealed

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a man before his time when it came to writing music, and he was a man who died before his time at the age of 35.

Like many artisans of the era Mozart was a remarkably unrecognized musician who only “got by”. In those days musicians were employed by the church or the court and any works created became the property of the employer. His fame would not be known until long after his death. A child prodigy Mozart began his prolific career as a composer at the age of five. Besides composing Mozart also played the keyboard of the day, violin, and viola.

In 1781 Mozart broke away from a court employed musician to try his hand at freelance. During that time he married Constanza Weber in 1872 and two years later joined the Freemasons. It was also in 1782 that he composed his first opera as an independent composer – “Die Etfuhrung aus dem Serail” ( Abduction from the Seraglio).

In only 30 short years Mozart wrote well over 600 works. He was a young genius who was misunderstood and misrepresented in film.

He was born is Saltzburg, Austria in 1756 and died of what physicians of the time called hitziges Frieselfieber or in layman’s terms "heated miliary fever". After careful study of the time researchers from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands have determined that the composer and musician died as a result of strep throat. Vienna records show that there was a small epidemic of strep in the city in 1791 when Mozart diedin December of that year.