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
Charles Molyneux, 5th Earl of Sefton fall in the Altcar Steeplechase in 1897 which left him severely brain damaged, a hopeless invalid and mentally unstable. His engagement to the Lady Mary Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, daughter of the 1st Earl of Ancaster was called off and he eventually died from his injuries. He died at his family seat, Croxteth Hall, near Liverpool, 2 December 1901, aged only 34, and was buried nearby in St Chad's churchyard, Kirkby. On his death his title passed to his brother Osbert Molyneux, 6th Earl of Sefton. Charles Molyneux, 5th Earl of Sefton Charles William Hylton Molyneux, 5th Earl of Sefton, (25 June 1867