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
Nikolay Afanasyev (composer) contrast, his operas had far less enthusiastic receptions. Although the Mariinsky Theatre staged "Ammalat-bek" in 1870, it has not been performed anywhere since; "Sten'ka Razin" failed to pass state censorship, while "Vakula-kuznets" was never performed. The manuscripts of several further operas and orchestral works remain unpublished. He died in Saint Petersburg in 1898, aged 77. Nikolay Afanasyev (composer) Nikolay Yakovlevich Afanasyev (; ) was an Imperial Russian violin virtuoso and composer. His memoirs 'Vospominaniya' ('Reminiscences') appeared in 1890, and recorded his experiences as a touring musician, as part of a panorama of Russian musical life during the mid 19th century.