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
Eric Alexander, 5th Earl of Caledon weeks, with the lovesick Eric walking over for every meal." Lord Caledon died unmarried on 10 July 1968 aged 82. Eric Alexander, 5th Earl of Caledon Eric James Desmond Alexander, 5th Earl of Caledon (9 August 1885 – 10 July 1968) was a soldier and the eldest son of James Alexander, 4th Earl of Caledon and Lady Elizabeth Graham-Toler. He was born at his family's home in Carlton House Terrace, London and succeeded to the title of Earl of Caledon on the death of his father in 1898. He went to Eton College from 1899 to 1903 and then to