Strep Throat May Have Led to Mozart's Death

http://www.ajc.com/health/content/shared-auto/healthnews/dead/630089.html ^ | August 17, 2009

[paulycy]

Wolfgang? Dead? Really, you people could have written to let me know!

Sorry you missed it. The Requiem was beautiful.

[Kenny Bunk]

.....sign his own name to the works of Haydn, Abel, Novotny, etc., and especially his own Father’s compositions, W. A. Mozart was a child prodigy, and a nominally talented composer. But he was also a fraud....

Of course he didn't compose that music ... he was far too busy authoring all that Shakespeare stuff ... and according to photographic evidence ... may have been the man on the Grassy Knoll.

Sacre bleu ... a fondré mon chapeau de feuille d'étain!

[Pharmboy]

It could have been strep throat, or another theory has the infection caused by a bug called Hemophilus influenzae. But a strep throat alone would not have killed him: one of two possibilities for the General. 1) a peri-tonsillar abscessas a complication or 2) bled to death by his medics.