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
William Mellish (died 1791) was appointed a Commissioner of Excise for 1751-1760 and Receiver General of Customs from 1760 to January 1763 and from 1765 to 1786. He served as Joint Secretary to the Treasury in July 1765. Mellish was elected the Member of Parliament for East Retford from 1741 to 18 December 1751. He died in 1791. He had married twice, firstly Catherine, the daughter of Joseph da Costa and widow of Joseph da Costa Villareal of Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, with whom he had 2 sons and secondly Anne, the daughter of John Gore of Bush Hill, Middlesex, with whom he had 5 sons