Forensic pathologist Dr. Walther Parson told Austrian broadcaster ORF that DNA comparisons with the remains of several of Mozart's relatives, exhumed from the family vault in Salzburg, "succeeded in getting a clear result." He said the results have been verified by a U.S. Army laboratory.
Mozart died in 1791 and was buried in a pauper's grave in Vienna. The skull eventually found its way to the Salzburg-based Mozarteum, a non profit organization dedicated to the composer, in 1902.