Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on 5 December 1791 at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have attracted much research and speculation. Some principal sources of contention are as follows. Mozart scholarship long followed the accounts of early biographers, which proceeded in large part from the recorded memories of his widow Constanze and her sister Sophie Weber as they were recorded in the biographies by Franz Niemetschek and Georg Nikolaus von Nissen. For instance, the important biography by Hermann Abert (1923/2008:1305-9) largely follows this account. The following is a summary of
William Mellish (died 1791) William Mellish (died 1791) William Mellish (c.1710 - 16 December 1791) was a British government administrator and Member of Parliament. He was born the second son of Joseph Mellish of Doncaster, Yorkshire and Blyth Hall, Nottinghamshire and was educated at Eton School (1725) and Peterhouse College, Cambridge (1726). He studied law in Lincoln's Inn (1725) and the Inner Temple (1734). . He succeeded to Blyth in 1757 on the death of his elder brother Edward. His younger brother Joseph was MP for Great Grimsby. He was employed as the Lord Treasurer’s remembrancer in the Exchequer from 1733 to 1754. He