Biographies of Mozart instance, by Schroeder (1999). Revisionism is, perhaps, likely to continue. Assessing the whole tradition of Mozart biography, Steptoe concludes: There is little doubt that successive generations of scholars have been sincere in their views of the composer, each claiming to be more 'objective' than the last, stripping away the veneer of speculation to arrive at 'the real man'. It is sobering to realize that these different opinions about Mozart as a person are all based on a very similar set of data. Biographies of Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died after a short illness on 5 December 1791, aged 35. His
Sir James Foulis, 5th Baronet Sir James Foulis, 5th Baronet Sir James Foulis, 5th Baronet (1714–1791) was the fifth Baronet of Colinton and an antiquarian. He was the eldest son of Henry Foulis, third son of the third baronet He succeeded his uncle, the fourth Baronet, in July 1742. In his youth he was an officer in the army, but he retired from the service early, and devoted himself to the pursuits of a country gentleman and to literature. Foulis died at Colinton, near Edinburgh, on 3 January 1791. He in 1781 contributed to the 'Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland' a dissertation on