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
Thomas Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 5th Baron Thurlow the Privy Council. Lord Thurlow also served as High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1886. He died on 12 March 1916, aged 77, and was succeeded in the Barony by his son Charles Edward. Thomas Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 5th Baron Thurlow Thomas John Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 5th Baron Thurlow, PC, FRS (5 December 1838 – 12 March 1916), was a British Liberal politician who served as Paymaster-General in 1886. Thurlow was the younger son of Edward Thomas Hovell-Thurlow, 3rd Baron Thurlow and a great-grandson of The Right Reverend Thomas Thurlow, Bishop of Durham from 1787 to 1791. Lord