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What illness did Mozart die of?
Mozart's personal physician, Thomas Franz Closset concluded that the composer died of hitziges Frieselfieber, or acute miliary fever. The symptoms of this syndrome included a high fever and the eruption of tiny, millet-seed shaped (hence the name, miliary), red bumps that blistered the skin.
When did Mozart die and why?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on Dec. 5, 1791, and it took a whole week for a Berlin newspaper to announce that he had been poisoned. The actual cause of death, a new study suggests, may have been more pedestrian: a strep infection.
What did Mozart say before he died?
Mozart is reported to have stated, "Yes I see I was ill to have had such an absurd idea of having taken poison, give me back the Requiem and I will go on with it." Mozart's worst symptoms of illness soon returned, together with the strong feeling that he was being poisoned.
