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
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 The manuscripts of several further operas and orchestral works remain unpublished.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.