Researchers have changed their mind... again! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart certainly had his vices and enemies, but these causes of death no longer seem to be in favor with this never-ending controversy. So forget what you learned from 1985's Best Picture Oscar-winner, Mozart died at the age of 35 from the same genus of bacteria that helped get you out of class for a few days when you were a kid.
Pianist Louis Lortie and conductor Nicholas McGegan walk off stage... possibly with the ghost of Amadeus. Credit: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times
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The 1985 movie "Amadeus" was based on Peter Shaffer's 1979 play which was based on Pushkin's 1831 play "Mozart and Salieri" which was also the source for Rimsy-Korsakov's 1898 opera.
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