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
Arthur Acland (died 1610) Anthony Vincent of Stoke D'Abernon; and Anna who died childless. Acland died aged 37 on 26 December 1610, and was buried 10 January 1611 in Landkey Church, where there is a large monument with effigies of himself and his wife. He left a widow and not only pre-deceased his wealthy and childless uncle Sir John Acland (died 1620), but also pre-deceased his own father, who died 12 years later in 1622. He thus never inherited the Acland paternal estates which passed in 1622 to his son Sir John Acland, 1st Baronet (c. 1591 – 1647), even though his three younger