During his short life, Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart suffered from many of the era's common illnesses, including smallpox, typhoid fever, tonsillitis and upper respiratory tract infections ...

If only Mozart had spent a little more time outdoors enjoying the sunshine – because then we might have had a few more masterpieces. Scientists discovered the composer, who died at just 35, did not ...

If Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had spent a few minutes basking in the sun, it might have forestalled his untimely death, researchers are saying. The sun would have upped the young composer's levels of ...

A new version of Amadeus further entrenches the myth that a jealous rival was responsible for the death of Mozart.

Twenty-three was probably not Mozart’s favourite age. He’d arrived back in Salzburg in mid-January with pretty much nothing to keep him away — and nothing on the horizon, either. As of 25 February he ...

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