Who Was Alive

Were Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart alive at the same time?

Yes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were alive at the same time for 35 years, from 1756 to 1791.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 6 when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 42 when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died, aged 35.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician

Born 28 August 1749 · died 22 March 1832, aged 82

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer of the Classical period

Born 27 January 1756 · died 5 December 1791, aged 35

  1. Voltaire
  2. George Washington
  3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven
  6. Napoleon
  7. Abraham Lincoln
  8. Charles Darwin
  9. Karl Marx
  10. Leo Tolstoy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.