“Death is Not the End”…There’s the Burial

Mozart My husband and I recently re-watched the 1984 movie about the great composer, Mozart, called Amadeus. Its depiction of Mozart’s death at age thirty-five made me curious. Shown as penniless, he became sick, quite possibly poisoned, and was dumped in a mass grave. Is that what really happened to such a shining star, a musical genius whose talents were appreciated all over Europe by the time he was six years old? Pardon the pun, but I did a little digging. No one knows for sure how Mozart died. A week after he expired, one newspaper reported that his rival ...