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Shortly before his last breath, Mozart tried to sing parts of his last work. On December 5, 1791, Mozart said goodbye to his family, turned to face the wall and passed away. Mozart probably died of rheumatic fever, not poisoning like some people speculate. Mozart's body was thrown into a pauper's grave in the churchyard of St. Mark in Vienna. When his wife, Constanze, returned with flowers a week later, she couldn't find his grave. Because Mozart died a poor man, his grave had been unmarked and his body unidentified.
Published 5:30 am, Tuesday, August 18, 2009. PHILADELPHIA â For more than two centuries, the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has endured â as has the speculation about what led to his sudden death at age 35 on Dec. 5, 1791.