Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Videos
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Classical composer and musician. He completed more than 800 works in his life—including outstanding examples of most of the genres of his time: symphonies, concertos, cha
Detail from Portrait of the Mozart Family, c. 1781
Mozart's birthplace at Getreidegasse 9, Salzburg
Mozart family on tour: Leopold, Wolfgang, Nannerl; watercolour by Carmontelle, c. 1763
Mozart aged 14 in January 1770 (School of Verona, attributed to Giambettino Cignaroli)
On 5 December 1791, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at his home in Vienna at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have attracted much research and speculation.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
…Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and Die Zauberflöte, the Piano Concerto No. 27 and his Requiem. The Requiem was largely unfinished at the time of his death at the age of 35. Modern scholars rely on various source materials in writing Mozart's biography. First, there are about 1500 pages of family letters…
Portrait of Mozart by his brother-in-law Joseph Lange; date unknown
Constanze Mozart, as depicted by her brother-in-law Joseph Lange (1782)
Portrait of Eduard Guldener von Lobes, year unknown. The work is an engraving by J. Eissner, who followed an original portrait made by Joseph Lange, who made the portraits of Mozart and of Constanze that appear above.
A sentimentalizing portrayal by Joseph Heicke of the journey of Mozart's coffin though the cemetery in a storm. The last line of verse reads "Only his loyal dog follows – his only friend!" Engraving from about 1860, a few years after the Deiner story appeared.