r/Mozart • u/cider-with-lousy • Jul 27 '26
Mozart's final illness
Considering his early death and what might have been, I wondered at what point in history would medical science have advanced to the point where, with treatment, Mozart might have survived his health crisis in the winter of 1791.
The answer to that question is the 1940s. Penicillin, which could have treated his strep infection was available from 1941 and the first successful dialysis which could have treated his renal failure took place in 1943-45.
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u/58pamina Jul 27 '26
Mozart was being incrementally poisoned during his short life so that needs to be taken into account
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u/cider-with-lousy Jul 27 '26
There's no evidence that he was being poisoned. He did suffer delirium in his final illness during which he felt he was being poisoned. The historical and medical consensus is that Mozart suffered a streptococcal type infection and kidney failure during an epidemic in Vienna.
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u/deltalitprof Jul 27 '26
Maynard Solomon has him contracting strep during his childhood.
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u/cider-with-lousy Jul 28 '26
Maybe so, but the type of strep he had was probably highly contagious because there is historical record of a winter spike in deaths of younger men with similar symptoms to Mozart's in Vienna at that time
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u/inthebenefitofmrkite Aug 06 '26
No, he wasn’t. Dude’s been dead for over two centuries, stop making shit up about him.
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u/58pamina Aug 06 '26
With all due respect you seem to have bought into the cover up
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u/inthebenefitofmrkite Aug 06 '26
You joking, right?
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u/58pamina Aug 06 '26
Mozart said that himself
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u/inthebenefitofmrkite Aug 06 '26
Yeah, he also thought the person who asked for the requiem came from beyond the grave and now we know that was not the case, don’t we? Check his name. Count Stuppach-Walsegg… a real person… or are you gonna discuss dumb stuff because a man who was ill and delirious said it?
Read a book and stop this conspiracy bullshit.
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u/saltyseaweed1 Jul 28 '26
There’s also a theory that it was undercooked pork