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Jun 2, 2022 · Their first child, Raimund Leopold, was born 10 months later, but died within two months from "Gedärmfries," a fever and infection, according to Interlude. This began a terrible pattern of the couple losing children during pregnancy or soon after birth.
- Sandra Mardenfeld
Mozart died from stomach cancer on 29 July 1844, in the town of Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary) where he was buried. Like his brother, he was unmarried and childless. His will was executed by Josephine de Baroni-Cavalcabò (1788–1860), a longtime patron to whom he dedicated his cello sonata.
Leopold Mozart, a court musician, began teaching Maria Anna, his first-born child, to play harpsichord when she was 8 years old. She progressed quickly, with 3-year-old Wolfgang often at her side.
The official report of Mozart’s death listed the cause as “severe miliary fever” (vintage medical jargon for a fever of unknown cause accompanied by skin inflammation).
The Mozart family were the ancestors, relatives, and descendants of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The earliest documents mentioning the name "Mozart", then spelled "Motzhart" or "Motzhardt", are from the Bavarian part of Swabia (today the Regierungsbezirk of Bavarian Swabia ).
She and Mozart had six children: Karl Thomas Mozart, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, and four others who died in infancy. She became Mozart's biographer jointly with her second husband.
On 20 November, 1791, during a fever epidemic 1, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart unexpectedly took ill - developing a high fever, headache, sweats, and severe swelling and pain in his hands and legs. By...
