Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: the death of a genius.

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Correspondence to Wolfgang Wagner; Wolfgang. Wagner@ apa. at It is always tempting to probe the unknown. And as we only know the present, most of our mysteries belong to the past and, quite naturally, to the future. No wonder that some pathologists or specialists in forensic medicine undertake quite some efforts to clarify the course of disease or the cause of death of famous people of the past...

"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Music for Solo Keyboard." Trevor Stephenson, Fortepiano

The Map of Mozart

We present a study on using a Mnemonic Self-Organizing Map for clustering a very homogeneous collection of music. In particular, we create a map containing the complete works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. We study and analyze the clustering capabilities of the SOM on this very focused collection. We furthermore present a web-based application for exploring the map and accessing the music it repre...

Could a neurological disease be a part of Mozart's pathography?

As expected, since we recently celebrated the 250th anniversary of birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, there has been again a renewal of interest in his short but intensive life, as well as in the true reason of his untimely dead. Mozart lived and died in time when the medical knowledge was based mostly on subjective observations, without the established basics of standardized medical terminology...

Infective Endocarditis and Phlebotomies May Have Killed Mozart

Thirty-five year-old Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna after an acute illness that lasted only 15 days but no consensus has been reached on the cause of his death. From many letters written by his farther it is almost certain that he experienced at least three episodes of acute rheumatic fever attack in his childhood, and a relapse of rheumatic fever was suggested to have killed Mozart, although de...