# Mozart dies in Vienna on 5 December 1791; later poison stories are not established

Date: 1791

## The fact

On 5 December 1791 [Mozart](/people/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart) died in Vienna. Poison stories are not established. Later grave-myths are commemoration, not this death. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's documented role is: He died after a short illness. Unique forensic labels are not supplied; common grave later is commemoration weather, not a unique pauper-cartoon statute.

## Context

Constanze and Süssmayr sit in the Requiem file. Sharing the death-room with unnamed physicians is required. The setting of Mozart dies in Vienna on 5 December 1791; later poison stories are not established is the public file around 1791-12-05. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Contribution type is direct. Driver health-system-capacity is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Mozart, death 1791 at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Digital Mozart Edition — death neighbourhood at https://dme.mozarteum.at/en/ (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum). Official carrier: Britannica — Mozart, death 1791 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Digital Mozart Edition — death neighbourhood (https://dme.mozarteum.at/en/; Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Mozart, death 1791 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening path from Mozart dies in Vienna on 5 December 1791; later poison stories are not established on 1791-12-05. Death after acute illness is a health path. Poison is not established. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Mozart dies in Vienna on 5 December 1791; later poison stories are not established under 1791-12-05 for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Established: a sourced public record of Mozart dies in Vienna on 5 December 1791; later poison stories are not established under 1791-12-05.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is health-system-capacity. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not certify Salieri. Do not store later cemetery tourism as 1791. Mixed effects of Mozart dies in Vienna on 5 December 1791; later poison stories are not established are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Mozart dies in Vienna on 5 December 1791; later poison stories are not established. Naming Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1791-12-05 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: https://factrail.ai/people/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://dme.mozarteum.at/en/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/moz-death-1791