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29-10-2018, 02:40 AM
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https://courses.lumenlearning.com/musicapp-medieval-modern/chapter/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart/

Mozart died in his home on 5 December 1791 (aged 35) at 1:00 am. The New Grove describes his funeral:

Mozart was interred in a common grave, in accordance with contemporary Viennese custom, at the St. Marx Cemetery outside the city on 7 December. If, as later reports say, no mourners attended, that too is consistent with Viennese burial customs at the time; later Jahn (1856) wrote that...

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