During his time, did Mozart die at an early age?

Answer 1

Yes, he did. Most people at that time lived way past their mid thirties. Many more people died of disease due to poor sanitation and medical technology which brought down the average life span. However, if people managed to stay healthy they lived normal lifespans.

Answer 2

Basically, for someone who survived early childhood, 36 was an early age to die in Mozart's time. It is most early childhood and infant mortality, plus women dying in childbirth, that bring down life expectancy, both in the past of Western civilization, as well as currently in 3rd world countries.
Everyone who survived to adulthood was lucky, really. But among those who did, 30's is still young.

Answer 3

Yes, if you consider his contemporary Haydn lived into his 70s and his slightly younger contemporary, Beethoven until his mid 50s. Mozart could quite easily have lived to have heard Beethoven's Choral Symphony - as someone once said, what would he have written, had he heard that?

Answer 4

Yes,he died at 36,and that was pretty young even in an age where people usually didn't cross the 70s.

Answer 5

I think that during his time you were lucky to live to be fifty....did he die a little to early yes, I think so, but considering we had nothing to combat even the simplest of diseases he was lucky to make it as long as he did....any infection could kill you, even something as simple as appendicitis's !!!!!!

Answer 6

During his tme not really, but compared to how long we live now ya