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Leopold Mozart dies in 1787 as a dated end of the managing-father office

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's documented role is: He did not manage Leopold's death. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Labour-Market Tightness.

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On 28 May 1787 Leopold Mozart died. The managing-father office ended. Wolfgang was already freelance in Vienna. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's documented role is: He did not manage Leopold's death. The father's impresario role ended; Wolfgang was already in Vienna.

Context

Salzburg is the death-place. Sharing the father-office with Leopold is required. The setting of Leopold Mozart dies in 1787 as a dated end of the managing-father office is the public file around 1787-05-28. Driver labour-market-tightness 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.

Why it matters

Worsening path from Leopold Mozart dies in 1787 as a dated end of the managing-father office on 1787-05-28. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

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

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.2 · verified

    He did not manage Leopold's death. The father's impresario role ended; Wolfgang was already in Vienna.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactLeopold Mozart dies in 1787 as a dated end of the managing-father office
    2. strengthensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

    impact weight 0.2 · Effect from 28 May 1787 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Digital Mozart Edition — early tours neighbourhoodInternationale Stiftung Mozarteum · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Mozart, grand tourEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Britannica — Leopold Mozart, death at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Digital Mozart Edition — Leopold 1787 at https://dme.mozarteum.at/en/ (opens in a new tab) (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum). Official carrier: Britannica — Leopold Mozart, death (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Digital Mozart Edition — Leopold 1787 (https://dme.mozarteum.at/en/ (opens in a new tab); Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum).

Established: a sourced public record of Leopold Mozart dies in 1787 as a dated end of the managing-father office under 1787-05-28 for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Established: a sourced public record of Leopold Mozart dies in 1787 as a dated end of the managing-father office under 1787-05-28.

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. Don Giovanni later that year is a different Fact. Mixed effects of Leopold Mozart dies in 1787 as a dated end of the managing-father office are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Leopold Mozart dies in 1787 as a dated end of the managing-father office. Naming Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1787-05-28 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.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  2. contributed toFactLeopold Mozart dies in 1787 as a dated end of the managing-father office
  3. strengthensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

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Factrail. (2026). Leopold Mozart dies in 1787 as a dated end of the managing-father office. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/moz-leopold-death-1787

https://factrail.ai/facts/moz-leopold-death-1787

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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