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
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