But those 10 years were also his last. Mozart died in 1791 at the age of 35. The music from his final decade is the subject of the latest book by Simon P. Keefe, a professor at the University of Sheffield and an accomplished Mozart scholar.
After honing his performance and compositional skills through his years "on the road" and at home in Salzburg, Mozart settled in Vienna in 1781, where for most of the decade he was considered the best keyboard player in a town of great keyboard players. In 1782 he married Constanza Weber, a union that resulted in six children, two of whom survived infancy. He strove to carve out a living as a composer, writing music on commission, performing, and teaching lessons on the side. Throughout the final decade that remained of his abbreviated life, Mozart' reputation as a composer continued to grow, and he enjoyed a particularly warm relationship with the citizens of Prague, where he and his music were held in great esteem. Most of his operas enjoyed great acclaim, as did his symphonies, piano concertos, and other instrumental works. Although not without his critics (Has a musician ever been without critics?), in the end the large output and distinct quality of Mozart's music has had the last word.
Mozart in Vienna The Final Decade
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Eyewitness records written a decade after Mozart's death indicate that the composer was extremely swollen during his final days of illness and had back pain. By using that little bit of information, many have theorized about his cause of death -- from poison by the hand of a jealous pupil who was convinced Mozart was having an affair with his wife, to scarlet fever or trichinosis. 2ff7e9595c
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