In what year did a certain influential composer, born 1756 and known to keep a pet starling, die?
Mozart's starling For about three years the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart kept a pet starling. The first record of the starling is the entry Mozart made in his expense book when he bought it on 27 May 1784:
Nicolas Hotman Nicolas Hotman (also "Autheman", "Haultemant", "Hautman", "Otteman"; ca. 1610–1663) was a Baroque composer, who spent most of his career in France. He is believed to have been from Germany, but was probably born in Brussels. He came with his family to Paris around 1626, where he died in April of the year 1663.