小泽征尔去年二月死于日本，日本的小草网友很清楚他病因，下面专门解释了，他的生平记录里没有老年痴呆一说，最怕网络以讹传讹

Illness and death

On January 7, 2010, Ozawa announced that he was canceling all engagements for six months in order to undergo treatments for esophageal cancer.^[32] The doctor with Ozawa at the time of the announcement said it was detected at an early stage.^[41][42] Ozawa's other health problems included pneumonia^[32] and lower back problems requiring surgery in 2011.^[32][43] Following his cancer diagnosis, Ozawa and the novelist Haruki Murakami embarked on a series of six conversations about classical music that form the basis for the book Absolutely on Music.^[1][44]

His last concert took place on November 22, 2022, with the Saito Kinen Orchestra where he conducted, in a wheelchair, Beethoven's 'Egmont' Overture, which was broadcast live to Koichi Wakata, an astronaut onboard the International Space Station.^[1][45]

Ozawa died of heart failure at his home in Tokyo, on February 6, 2024, at the age of 88.