The medical cause of Mozart's death that has long puzzled music historians may finally have been cleared up.
One US researcher has concluded that the composer, who died at the age of 36 in 1791 may have suffered food poisoning after eating contaminated pork cutlets.
At the time no autopsy was carried out but physicians diagnosed that he had died of a fever.
The conclusions are based on a letter written by Mozart referring to pork cutlets, and matching symtoms he complained of afterwards.
It is now believed the death was caused by eating undercooked pork which contained the larvae of worms that grow and invade the body.
