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Med Probl Perform Art ; 25(2): 49-53, 2010 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20795332

ABSTRACT

More has been written about Mozart's illnesses and death than for any other composer. An exploration of PAMA's Bibliography of Performing Arts Medicine provides the data for this review. The bibliography contained 136 entries that pertained to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Of these, 81 were available to the author, either in printed or electronic copy. In order to provide a clearer historical perspective on this topic, this review assembles information pertaining to illnesses and other medical problems that occurred during Mozart's life as well as those purportedly contributing to his death.


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Cause of Death , Famous Persons , Music/history , Streptococcal Infections/history , Austria , Depression/history , Erythema Nodosum/history , Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative/history , Health Status , History, 18th Century , Homicide/history , Humans , Hypertensive Encephalopathy/history , IgA Vasculitis/history , Poisoning/history , Streptococcal Infections/complications , Trichinellosis/history
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Wurzbg Medizinhist Mitt ; 25: 153-73, 2006.
Article in German | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17333861

ABSTRACT

On December 5th, 1791, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart died from an acute febrile disease which had been accompanied by painful tumefactions around his hands and feet. The official diagnosis 'hitziges Frieselfieber' (severe military fever) cannot be decoded or translated into modern medical terms. Hypotheses which assert either a wilful or an erroneous poisoning with mercuric chloride have not been corroborated. Innumerable diverging retrospective diagnoses have been made by physicians during the 19th and 20th centuries. In this essay, we give a pathobiografical description of Mozart's three severe diseases from which he suffered as a boy: When traveling through Europe with his parents and his sister to give many exhausting concerts Wolfgang Amadé fell ill with an Erythema nodosum (1762), an abdominal typhus (1765), and with smallpox (1767). With regard to the 24 years between 1767 and 1791, however, we don't have much evidence for the suspicion that Mozart has had severe acute or chronic diseases as a grown-up. He may have been physically robust, but mentally he was rather sensitive. In his letters, Mozart sometimes portrayed a temporary bad state of health in order to illustrate his inconvenient emotional and/or financial situation. Up to November 18, 1791, Mozart's creativity was unbroken. His death came unexpectedly after an illness of 15 days.


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Famous Persons , Music/history , Austria , Erythema Nodosum/history , History, 18th Century , Humans , Male , Pathology, Clinical , Smallpox/history , Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne/history
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N Engl J Med ; 344(20): 1557, 2001 May 17.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11368051
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