Where is the composer Mozart buried?
According to popular legend, Mozart was buried in a pauper’s grave. In fact, though he was no longer as fashionable in Vienna as he had once been, he continued to have a well-paid job at court and receive substantial commissions from other parts of Europe. He was not buried in a pauper’s grave, but in a regular communal grave according to the 1783 laws. Mozart died 5 December 1791 in Vienna and was buried in a mass grave in the village of St. Marx just outside the city walls of Vienna. To take this answer one step further. . .in the book After the Funeral by Edwin Murphy it is claimed that a gravedigger by the name of Joseph Rothmayer remembered exactly in which communal grave Mozart was buried. Ten years after the composer’s death Rothmayer salvaged his skull and kept it as a momento. It passed through many hands before it was displayed at the Mozarteum. However, nobody has ever been able to prove with certainty that the skull Rothmayer salvaged is in fact that of Mozart. Yes, a commu
