His abilities in For classical music lovers, December 5 may be the saddest day of the year. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart grew up in Salzburg under the regulation of his strict father Leopold who also was a famous composer of his time. A rumor has begun to circulate in Vienna that 34. Our story opens in 1825 on the eve of the elderly Salieri’s death. The play, brought to life with the music of Mozart, is a tale of jealousy and betrayaland perhaps even murder. Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus is a reimagining of the lives of Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
During his last two weeks of life, Mozart developed severe edema (swelling of the hands, feet, legs, abdomen, arms and face due to retained body fluid). Unfortunately, she gave this testimony some 33 years after the event, when her memory may have been less than reliable. 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.Mozart’s sister-in-law, Sophie Haibel, provided the most detailed commentary of his final days and hours. Mozart’s personal physician, Thomas Franz Closset concluded that the composer died of hitziges Frieselfieber, or acute miliary fever.
They then studied the death patterns of 5,011 adults (3,442 men with a mean age of death at 45.5 years and 1,569 women with a mean age of death at 54.5 years).The epidemiologists discovered a marked increase in the deaths of younger men in the weeks corresponding to Mozart’s fatal illness when compared to the previous and following years. A team of intrepid scholars from Amsterdam, Vienna, and London collected reports of all the recorded deaths in Vienna between December 1791 and January 1792, as well as the corresponding periods in 1790 to 17 to 1793. Sophie insisted that Mozart remained conscious until about two hours before his death.The epidemiologists discovered a marked increase in the deaths of younger men in the weeks corresponding to Mozart’s fatal illness when compared to the previous and following yearsThe many modern medical diagnoses explaining Mozart’s death include tuberculosis, mercury poisoning, syphilis, rheumatic fever, kidney failure due to chronic glomerulonephritis, Henoch–Schönlein purpura (a syndrome of bruising, arthritis, and abdominal pain, often accompanied by kidney problems), scarlet fever, and trichinosis from eating poorly cooked or raw pork.Perhaps the most impressive of the lot was a 2009 retrospective epidemiological study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (2009 151: 274-278). He was unlikely to have experienced shortness of breath on his last day of life because he was still singing parts of the Requiem to Franz Süssmayr, an Austrian composer and conductor who was serving as Mozart’s copyist (rather than Salieri in the fictional “Amadeus”) and who, after Mozart’s death, completed a commonly performed version of the Requiem. The evening before his death, December 4, he was well enough to invite some friends to his bedside to sing parts of his Requiem.
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