Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Grave of a Famous Person on Waymarking.com

Composer, Pianist, Violinist. He died in relative poverty at age 35 and was given the standard burial of the day - a mass grave in St. Marx cemetary. Perhaps no other composer has had so many legends develop surrounding their death. The composer Antonio Salieri, in a deathbed confession, tried to take credit for murdering Mozart. There was a popular rumor that Mozart's Masonic Lodge had assassinated him for betraying lodge secrets in his opera "Die Zauberflste", but this has never been proven. In 1901 a skull, whose owners claimed belonged to Mozart was given to the Salzburg Mozarteum. The story of the skull is that Joseph Rothmayer, Mozart's gravedigger, claimed to have rescued it from oblivion during a reorganization (pulverizing of the bones so that the plot could be reused) of the burial plot where Mozart's remains were in 1801. Examination of the skull by a French team of forensic scientists proves only that it could be that of the composer. It also showed that whoever the original owner of the skull was that they died of chronic haematoma possibly resulting from a fall. Chronic haematoma would account for the depression and dizziness Mozart complained of experiencing before death. The Mozarteum has not accepted the findings of the French team and has been conducting its own studies. For futher information see "Archeology" - March / April 1991: "The Mystery of Mozart's Skull" and the book 'After the Funeral: The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses' by Edwin A. Murphy. A monument to Mozart was erected in 1859 in the St. Marx Friedhof on the approximate spot where Mozart's bones are believed to be buried. It was relocated to the Vienna Zentralfriedhof in 1891. Another monument - that of an angel with a saddened face stands guard over the grave in St. Marx today.

Description: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. His more than 600 compositions include works widely acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music, and he is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers. Date of birth: 01/27/1756 Date of death: 12/05/1791 Area of notoriety: Entertainment Marker Type: Monument Setting: Outdoor Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Closes at dusk between November and March. Fee required?: No Web site: Not listed

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