The Death of Mozart - St. Marx Cemetery, Vienna

The Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
St. Marx Cemetery, Vienna, Austria
December 5, 1791
Vienna, Austria
Made by Jesus Leon

[EmilyGloeggler]

Mozart was nursed in his final days by his wife and her youngest sister, and was attended by the family doctor, Thomas Franz Closset. He was mentally occupied with the task of finishing his Requiem, but the evidence that he dictated passages to his student Franz Xaver Süssmayr is minimal.

Mozart died in his home on 5 December 1791 (aged 35) at 12:55 am. The New Grove describes his funeral:

Mozart was interred in a common grave, in accordance with contemporary Viennese custom, at the St. Marx Cemetery outside the city on 7 December. If, as later reports say, no mourners attended, that too is consistent with Viennese burial customs at the time; later Otto Jahn (1856) wrote that Salieri, Süssmayr, van Swieten and two other musicians were present. The tale of a storm and snow is false; the day was calm and mild.

The expression "common grave" refers to neither a communal grave nor a pauper's grave, but an individual grave for a member of the common people (i.e., not the aristocracy). Common graves were subject to excavation after ten years; the graves of aristocrats were not.

The cause of Mozart's death is not known with certainty. The official record of hitziges Frieselfieber ("severe miliary fever", referring to a rash that looks like millet seeds) is more a symptomatic description than a diagnosis. Researchers have suggested more than a hundred causes of death, including acute rheumatic fever, streptococcal infection, trichinosis, influenza, mercury poisoning, and a rare kidney ailment, etc.

[NightDweller]

Imagine not falling to your knees by the sheer realisation of where you stand

[yakovmatityahu]

May God grant eternal life to this great composer...

[hahahahaboi]

When im dead i will find mozart cause hes the Legend of music and i love music.

[chacaloso]

It's beautiful. I love Mozart so much.

[wilsonphilips]

Rest in Peace Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart, God Bless You....

[danielhoehrpiano]

Mozart didn't die suddenly and unexpectedly, he was terminally ill.

[franzpeterschubert]

This isn't the house, where Mozart died. This is the place, where it was until 1849 when it was teared down!

[theophilos]

Unfortunately the gravedigger in December 1791 at Old St Marx cemetery in Vienna died within a few years of Mozart’s burial and the Widow refused to mark the grave with a stone saying ‘I shall leave that sort of thing to those who were responsible…’ (whatever that means) and in the end did not visit the alleged plot area of the communal 3rd class grave for SEVENTEEN YEARS —so she was not able to verify the exact spot where his corpse was laid in the ground, saying ‘they showed me a tree planted to mark the spot in the 3rd row of graves’ —

NB: the skull in the glass case in the Mozarteum (which does in fact seem to match the shape & size of the head of M.) now lacks the lower jaw mandible and was exhumed by one of the assistant grave diggers in 1792 who removed the remaining decaying facial skin with hooks to sell it to a ‘pseudo scientist’ (‘phrenologist’) in Vienna who studied the shapes of crania in an attempt to co-relate head-shapes with genius …

At least this assistant knew where the body was buried…but we to-day do not …

[brirhieverything]

Man that beautiful home I bet the piano and harpsichord played so beautifully

[juniorribeiro]

Na minha opinião o maior gênio da música de todos os tempos. Grande Mozart.

[bryanpayne]

How did they determine where he was buried at

[intelligenceservices]

Why isn't Constanze buried there and instead buried in Salzburg (of all places) next to Leopold Mozart and Georg Nicholas Von Nissen? I've been to the st. Mark's graveyard as well. Nothing adds up as to the fate of Mozart's body, given that he was a Mason and Masons pay for the funerals of other Mason's. look into Georg Nicholas Von Nissen. It makes me wonder because if he in fact lived, he would have been compelled to compose. And those works would be great if not astonishing. If he lived, Did he go on to Create under a pseudonym or perhaps use a frontman? If so then that frontman would be the chronological successor in greatness to Mozart. We would know those works but we would know them by another name. As to Von Nissen being buried next to Leopold, the memory of Leopold would be highly confused as to why that is appropriate unless Von Nissen was his son.

[kidsundance]

When was this? In august 2016 it was in reparations without the monument

[barbarablue]

it´s a pity that he does not have a proper place for resting.

[sudhirchaudhary]

Mozart died on 5th December. There are 5 dislikes to the video.
Looks like 5 is never gonna leave him... Even after his death

[martiglesias]

He died on that place but not in that house. The house dont exist anymore!

[thomasromano]

What did Mozart die of? I've heard everything from Rheumatic Fever to Trichinosis. (Mozart loved pork, meat was not inspected in those days very well. Trichina worm was not suspected). Unfortunately, his gravesite is not really known.

[kylelewis]

I’m confused what did he do to deserve to be treated like trash Pretty sure everybody think he was poisoned or even killed by someone it’s been like 230 since he passed How are we sure that that’s his gravesite if he was buried with a bunch of other people seem selfish to list one guy when you died with like 10 others

[scrapperpun]

When people are near Mozart's grave, they hear a strange noise. When they get closer, they realize it's backwards piano music. It's Mozart decomposing.