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Summary
1.
Mozart,
Johann Georg Leopold, 68 years (father of
Wolfgang Amadeus and "Nannerl")
2.
Mozart, Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia, 78
years ("Nannerl")
3.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 35 years
4.
Konstanze Mozart, Frau von Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, 80 years
5.
Mozart, Karl Thomas, 74 years, first
son of Wolfgang Amadeus and Constance
6.
Mozart, Franz Xaver Wolfgang (Wolfgang
Amadeus), 53 years, second son of Wolfgang
Amadeus and Constance
Summary
Analyzing the biographies of the Mozart family one can see
that this Mozart family was very fanatic in music and the
son Wolfgang Amadeus was abused as a show child and has
suffered much by that for sure. Wolfgang has to be on trips
for months with 6 years already, only because he is well
playing piano and is composing well. Later is even coming a
frustration when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart cannot repeat his
success of his childhood in Paris when he is there again as
an adult person.
Insofar a big psychological
child abuse can be
stated in the Mozart family, an total
music fanaticism.
And this child abuse was also a physical one because with
many stress and strains during the trips the child Wolfgang
Amadeus is damaged badly, and one time during a trip of four
months even both children - Wolfgang and his sister Nannerl
- were very ill in the bed
Considering the today's well known psychological point of
view this biography of this Mozart family is absolutely no
model. It can be hoped that other parents will
not
take this biography as a model for their children.
There are many persons in this Mozart family not making any
music, and significantly they have the longest life, above
all Mozart's wife Constance who gets an age of 80 years, and
the first son giving up making music but working as a high
trading employee (the former name was an "Offizial") and he
got an age of 74 years.
The second son of Wolfgang Amadeus surviving childhood,
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, is hardly mentioned in music
history whereas he also has composed and was a conductor in
Lemberg (Lviv).
All in all any objectivity is missing in the classical music
scenery considering the overall context of the life's
development, and the taboo of the psychical and physical
child abuse by music fanaticism committed with talented
children is not considered until today. Force for playing
music in a childhood is child labor and torture and should
be persecuted by law.
Michael Palomino (2005 / 2012)
1.
Mozart, Johann Georg Leopold (father of Wolfgang Amadeus
and "Nannerl")
The father Leopold Mozart, baptized 14 November 1719 in
Augsburg,
died on 28 May 1787 in
Salzburg, becomes a German
composer, is the son of the bookbinder
Johann Georg
Mozart (1679-1736), and later he is the father of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and of his daughter "Nannerl". At
Jesuits grammar school "Salvator" in Augsburg he gets a
Humanist schooling, also with a schooling in violin, organ
and music theory.
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Johann Georg
Leopold Mozart, severe father of W.A.Mozart.
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As it seems Leopold Mozart has not to stay big trips and can
develop his circle of friends normally. In 1737 he begins
with studies in
Benedictine University in
Salzburg
with a study in philosophy and legal studies. But in 1739/40
he has to give up these studies [there are no reasons
indicated].
There follows an employment as a body servant and "Musicus"
at the court of
Count Thurn Valsassina and Taxis, a
work as a violinist in the archiepiscopal chamber orchestra
(1743) and as a violin teacher at the boy's orchestra
institute.
Follows marriage with
Anna Maria Pertl (born in 1720
in
St. Gilgen, died in 1778 in
Paris) and
she is brining the lower funny humor into the family. There
were 7 children but only two of them survive (Maria Anna
"Nannerl", and Wolfgang Amadeus).
In 1757 Leopold Mozart is graduating being a court composer,
and in 1763 he is graduating being the band leader. At the
same time he is maintaining relations to
Mizler Society
of Leipzig, to the music college in
Augsburg,
and to
Fr. W. Marpurg (Berlin). Leopold personifies
diligence, sense of duty and tenacity, a special sense for
popular music, and all is mixed with pious catholicism and
also with some character of enlightenment.
[According to Riemann] the significance of Leopold Mozart
can be see as a composer and as a music pedagogic writer,
but above all as a teacher of his son Wolfgang Amadeus.
[Riemann is not detecting anything about the psychological
child abuse committed with Wolfgang Amadeus, it's an
absolute taboo].
The long travels which the young Wolfgang Amadeus had to
stay were for sure the base for the latter illnesses of
Wolfgang and his early death.
[This is an indication of Riemann himself, and with this the
physical child abuse is confessed indirectly. But the
reason, the father's terrorism, is not indicated].
Since 1781 there is a psychological alienation between
father and the son, so the relationship is turning to be a
tragic one.
[The cruel father having robbed a normal childhood wants now
also to prohibit the marriage of his son].
Compositions: Leopold Mozart invents a mixture of baroque,
early classical, Vienna, Mannheimer, North and South German
folklore style with Italian elements. Add to this he is
using rare instruments in his symphonies as a wheel fiddle,
bagpipe, hammered dulcimer, jingling of bells, cow horn,
whip and pistol [well, a pistol hardly can be considered as
a "music instrument"].
Leopold Mozart's piano sonatas are very similar to the
sonatas of
D. Scarlatti and of
Chr. Ph. E. Bach.
The work "
A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of
Violin Playing" (orig. German: "Versuch einer
gründlichen Violinschule", 1756, enlarged in 1769), is a
pioneering work following the works of
Montéclair
(1711/12),
Tessartini (1741) and
Geminiani
(1751). After these violin schools the one of Leopold Mozart
is the most important elder method of violin playing. There
are treating the Italian art of violin playing (
Tartini,
Locatelli), with an influence of
Quantz (1752)
and of
Chr. Ph. E. Bach (1753). Add to this Leopold
Mozart is also writing "Trials" for the flute and also for
the piano.
Leopold Mozart is dying in 1787 with 68 years, 4 years
before his son is dying.
[He never has realized the child abuse with his son by the
long travels and the forced music education (child work). As
also the surrounding world does not want to realize this
child abuse, talented children are educated until today in
this manner provoking that their souls are wreckages].
2.
Mozart, Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia
("Nannerl")
She was born on
30 July 1751 in Salzburg, and died on 29
October 1829 also in Salzburg. She was
the daughter of Leopold Mozart, the elder sister
of Wolfgang Amadeus. Schooling of her father on
the piano converts her into the most skilled
piano player of Europe. In 1759 Leopold is
composing a "music book" for her (19 minuets, 21
compositions without dancing forms, and also the
first compositions of Wolfgang can be found in
this book).
Nannerl is forced to accompany the little genius
brother of Wolfgang Amadeus on his travels and
is suffering heaviest illnesses like her brother
[and she is also loosing the circle of friends
of her childhood].
In 1784 she is marrying the privy councilor Johann
Baptist Empire Baron Berchtold zu Sonnenberg.
She is living in St. Gilgen and after
his death she is piano teacher in Salzburg.
[It can be admitted that since the marriage the
music stress is reduced].
At the end of her life she is blind. She is
dying with 78 years and is reaching a high age
for that time.
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W.A.Mozart's sister Maria Anna
Walburga Ignatia Mozart, Nannerl
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3.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Baptismal names are: Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus
Theophilus (lat. Amadeus); confirmation's name: Sigismundus.
He was born on 27 January 1756 in
Salzburg, and died
on 5 December 1791 in
Vienna.
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Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart as a child on the piano.
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Wolfgang Amadeus has got a high musicality and a brilliant
memory since his early childhood, in combination with
seriousness and insensitivity of learning. The first peaces
dictated by his father are well conserved in the "music
book" which was given to Nannerl in 1759. In 1762 father
Leopold is writing a "music book" for his son Wolfgang, with
German, French and Italian compositions.
The Mozart family during long travels
In 1762 (as a 6 years old boy) were the first two "art
travels" with father Leopold and his children Wolfgang and
Nannerl to
Munich and to
Vienna. The
children are "presented" to the music expert members of the
court (Wolfgang is playing one of
Wagenseil's piano
concertos with Wagenseil himself in the public).
In 1763 there is a first "big travel" [that is an absolute
child abuse with isolation from the circle of children
friends, with the separation from the family and with a
constant travel strain]:
Munich-Augsburg-Ludwigsburg-Schwetzingen-Heidelberg-Mainz-Francfort
on the Main (Goethe is listening to Mozart), then
continuing to Coblenz-Aachen-Brussels-Paris. The
travel provokes a causing a big sensation [respectively the
father is increasing his reputation damaging the lives of
his children and their bodies are strained heavily].
A supporter can be found with
Friedrich Melchior Grimm
(1723-1807), and in
Paris more friendships can be
made with German musicians (
Eckhardt Honauer and
J.
Schobert). Mozart's first compositions are under
Schobert's
influence: Sonatas for harpsichord which can be executed
with an accompaniment of a violin (orig. French: Sonates
pour clavecin qui peuvent se jouer avec l'accompagnement de
violon), in 1764.
But Paris is not the last stop, but the travel is passing
the Channel. In April 1764 (with 8 years) Mozart is
presented at the
London Court and there is the
meeting with J. Chr. Bach, the music master of the Queen,
and they are playing music together.
Mozart has to pass regular "probes" when he is shown at a
court:
-- he has to play at sight
-- he has to perform difficult music peaces
-- he has to sing and to play an accompaniment from a
presented full score
-- he has to make improvisations of an aria on certain words
or on a presented bass part
-- he has to perform transpositions.
[Childish naive ambition is shown here for the adult's
circus, and this is another total child abuse].
Now by the ideas recollected during the travels there are
new compositions:
-- 6 violin sonatas dedicated to the English Queen and
printed and published
-- little symphonies
-- and during an illness of his father there is also a
"music book" assembled by Wolfgang with dances, free music
peaces and sonata movements.
Add to this
Haendel has got a strong influence on
Mozart concerning oratories.
[The compositions made by orders from outside are a clear
child labor. The question how much pressure was executed by
father Leopold doing this is a taboo until today, but heavy
pressure can be admitted].
In July 1765 the travel is going on back home passing the
Channel again and passing the French and Dutch towns
Lille-Gent-Antwerp
and
The Hague. The children now fall heavily ill so
there has to be a rest traveling of four months.
[Now the physical child abuse traveling without limits is
hardly ending with the death of the children. But the father
never learns anything by these events].
The family is living for half a year within the Dutch
aristocracy. After reconvalescense of the fine children's
bodies [at the beginning of] 1766 another show of Wolfgang
Amadeus in
Amsterdam follows. Wolfgang Amadeus is
also composing piano variations, the orchestra quodlibet "
Galimathias
musicum", sonatas, and symphonies.
Father Leopold Mozart is urging his two children going on
traveling. There follow the cities
Utrecht-Mecheln-Paris-Dijon-Lyon-Geneva-Lausanne-Berne-Zurich-Donaueschingen-Ulm-Munich-Salzburg
(end of 1766).
[All in all this "trip" lasts four years from 1762 to 1766,
and this trip has robbed the childhood of the Mozart's
children, for sister Nannerl it is the period between 11 and
15 years, for Wolfgang Amadeus the period between 6 and 10
years].
Child work of Wolfgang Amadeus is getting it's culmination
point in one movement of the oratory "The Obligation of the
First Commandment" (orig. German: "Die Schuldigkeit des
ersten Gebots"). The other movements are written by
Michael
Haydn and
Adlgasser. Further on there is a
grave music and a Latin school comedy "
Apollo et
Hyacinthus".
[Why a child of about 9 or 10 ages has already to compose
grave music seems very doubtful. The psychical child abuse
is establishing itself with Wolfgang Amadeus and is becoming
the "normality"...]
Wolfgang Amadeus is studying "
Gradus ad Parnassum"
[The way to the mountain Parnass] of the composer Fux (Fox).
In 1768 the first depression comes for the 12 years old
child Wolfgang Amadeus. After a trip from
Salzburg
to
Vienna in 1768 (with 12 years) the father Leopold
is "presented" at the court of the Emperor
Joseph II
and the Mozart family wants to get it's fee musically and
economically in Vienna. But because of the frugality of the
Emperor Joseph II and because of intrigues of competitive
composers there is no big success possible in Vienna for the
child Wolfgang Amadeus.
Mozart's little opera "
Bastien and Bastienne" gets
it's first performance in the house of
Dr. Mesmer.
Mozart's first opera "
La finta semplice" [The simple
intrigue] gets it's first performance in
Salzburg in
1769.
At the inauguration of the orphanage church Mozart is
conducting an own mass.
[Now Wolfgang Amadeus is becoming a "music machine"...]
In 1769 Mozart (as a 13 years old youth) is becoming concert
master in Salzburg.
[Now the child abuse is completed with payed child work, but
in these times there were many children working. Father
Leopold seems to have only the family's pride in it's head
shortening the life of his son with permanent stress...]
Wolfgang is writing masses, dances and serenades (with 13
years).
But also the working position as a concert master in
Salzburg is not enough for father Leopold Mozart. In
December 1769 this work is interrupted by a travel of father
and son to Italy. Now Nannerl is not taken to the trips any
more, but now Nannerl has to pass late puberty without any
father's presence. Towns visited during the trip are
Verona-Mantua-Milan.
There are meetings with
Sammartini and
Piccini,
and Wolfgang Amadeus gets an opera order [and this is again
one more institutionalized child abuse]. The trip is going
on to the towns
Bologna-Florence-Rome-Naples-Rome,
where Wolfgang gets a "
medal of golden trail spade".
Since then Mozart likes to call himself a "Cavaliere Mozart"
[knight Mozart].
[But there is one more consequence of this: Mozart becomes a
wrong model now: Many children in European "cultural region"
are presented the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and have
to accept being humiliated when they want to be normal
children, and they are humiliated until the children get
their certificates at music competitions which correspond
more or less to a "medal of golden trail spade". Therefore
society in general is fostering classical music within
imperial hierarchies. The topic of child abuse is going on
to be a taboo, and any sociological study about child abuse
and stress in childhood is missing].
Father and son Mozart have meetings with Father
G.B.
Martini and the opera composers
Majo and
Paisiello.
Mozart is accepted as a "compositore" in the "Academy of
Philharmonic Players" (orig. Italian: Academia dei
Filarmonici) and Mozart gets lessons with
Martini.
Mozart is performing child work again, now composing the
opera "
Mitridate, re di Ponto", an ordered music
peace for Milan.
Only in March 1771 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is in Salzburg
again (with 15 years).
[This trip to Italy from December 1769 to March 1771 lasted
16 months, so 1 1/2 years, and the most important personal
development of Wolfgang between 13 and 15 years was blocked
by this. During his first 15 years of life Wolfgang Amadeus
is about 6 years traveling. And instead of making up the
personal development and installing constant relationships
it seems that Wolfgang Amadeus was urged with pressure by
the father on and on, and Wolfgang is going on traveling up
and down in Europe].
Composition of a cantata "
La Betulia liberata".
Traveling is going on now: In autumn of 1771 Wolfgang is
again in
Milan where the first performance of his
theatrical serenade (Serenata teatrale) "
Ascanio in Alba"
is realized. In April 1772 he is again in
Salzburg
with the performance of the dramatic serenade (Serenata
drammatica) "
The Dream of Scipio" (orig. Italian: "Il
sogno di Scipione"). During Christmas of 1772 Wolfgang is in
Milan again with the first performance of the ordered
opera "
Lucio Silla".
In 1773 Wolfgang is in
Salzburg, then traveling to
Vienna
getting to know the
Haydn string quartets. Then he
is composing masses, serenades, divertimenti, concerts,
string quartets, choirs and first piano sonatas.
[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart does not seam to have the mental
capacity for relationships. The drill of the father is
dominating his soul].
In 1775 he is composing the opera buffa "
The Pretend
Guarden Girl" (orig. Italian: "La finta giardiniera")
and for Salzburg the festival opera "
The Shepperd King"
(orig. Italian: "Il re pastore").
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W.A.Mozart
as a young man, appr. 20 years old
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In 1777 there are 5 violin concertos, masses, piano
concertos, divertimenti, serenades and symphonies composed.
But Mozart has no good position yet, and in Salzburg the
management does not permit more travel vacations. Therefore
Wolfgang leaves Salzburg [with 21 years]. He is quitting his
working post and his fix salary and he cannot solve from the
live scheme of traveling to which he was forced during his
childhood by the force of his father.
There follow two "big travels" from 1777 on, now accompanied
by the mother, to
Munich with a meeting with the
piano maker
J.A. Stein. In Mannheim he gets to know
Cannabich, Toeschl, Filtz, Holzbauer, Schweitzer and
the poet
Wieland. A love affair with the woman
singer
Aloysia Weber is ending unhappily.
Wolfgang is writing arias, flute concerts, flute quartets
and piano sonatas.
In March 1778 Wolfgang is urged by his father for a travel
to
Paris [Wolfgang continues to be determined from
outside], where an opera quarrel is on the way between
adherents of
Gluck and
Piccini. Mozart
reaching in Paris cannot repeat the sensational successes of
his childhood. There are first performances of a ballet
pantomime "
Les Petits Riens" from Noverres and a
symphony (
Paris Symphony).
Wolfgang is giving piano lessons. He has a meeting with
Johann
Christian Bach. There are more composition orders, a
concert for flute and harp, sonatas and variations for piano
and violin sonatas.
The mother falls ill and dies on 3 July 1778 in Paris [with
58 years].
The travel back is passing
Strasbourg-Mannheim-Munich.
Wolfgang is yet in love with
Aloysia but she is
rejecting him definitively and then Wolfgang comes home to
Salzburg in January 1779 in a heavy heart ache of love. He
is again accepted as a concert master in Salzburg and at the
same time he becomes the Court's organist now.
Compositions are following and following without limits:
"Coronation Mass", vespers, church sonatas, concerts,
symphonies, serenades, violin and piano sonatas, the little
opera "
Zaide", and an Opera seria "
Idomeneo"
for Munich carnival.
Then a stay in
Vienna follows where Wolfgang has to
resign in a quarrel with
Archbishop of Salzburg who
is in Vienna at the same time, and because of this quarrel
Mozart looses his working post in Salzburg (8 June 1781).
Now Wolfgang is settling as a free artist in Vienna. He is
the first putting the mental nobles over the native nobles.
But any application for a definite working post have no
success.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is giving lessons, is organizing
academies with his works, but is always in money troubles.
In 1782 he is composing for the Emperor an ordered opera /
little opera "The Abduction from the Seraglio".
At 4 August 1782 Wolfgang is marrying
Constance Weber,
Aloysia's sister. This marriage is estranging him from his
father. But there are new connections with Haydn, a
constructive friendship (his string quartets are a new
stimulus). Mozart is also much time with
Baron van
Swieten where only music of
Bach and Haendel
is performed.
Mozart is arranging the Preludes and Fugues of Bach for
string quartet and is changing the instrumentation of
Haendel's oratories.
In 1784 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is becoming a
Free Mason
(as also Haydn is member of a Free Mason lodge). The
[superficial] idea of friendship and of brotherhood are
mirrored in Mozart's works.
[The principal idea of Freemasonry is the domination of the
word by a little group of persons claiming to be the
successor of Jesus' wife which is suppressed not only by
Mozart and Haydn].
In the same year of 1784 Wolfgang's first son is born in
Vienna on 21 September 1784 surviving well: Charles Thomas
Mozart (Karl Thomas Mozart).
In 1786 Wolfgang is composing the comedy with music "
The
Impresario" (original German: "Der
Schauspieldirektor"), then also the opera "
The nights of
Figaro" (original Italian: "Le nozze di Figaro").
Figaro is celebrating a great success in Vienna and above
all in [then mostly German speaking] Prague.
[But there is also another point of view: Mozart also would
have been famous with only the half of his works].
In 1787 Mozart was composing in Prague an ordered opera for
Prague, the funny drama ("dramma giocoso") "
Don Giovanni".
The Prague period of Mozart is a happy time. In April
Beethoven is Mozart's pupil for some time. Mozart also gets
the title being an imperial chamber composer.
In the same year the severe father dies, probably without
any reconciliation.
In 1788 Mozart was composing the last great symphonies (E
flat major, g minor, and C major).
In 1789 Mozart makes a travel with
prince Lichnovky
to Berlin passing
Dresden and
Leipzig where
Mozart is studying Bach.
King Friedrich Wilhelm II
in
Potsdam gives Mozart an order for new string
quartets.
In 1790 Mozart is composing the opera "
Thus Do They All"
(originally Italian: "Cosi fan tutte").
And in 1791 the opera "
The Clemency of Titus"
(original Italian: "La clemenza di Tito") is composed. There
is also an art trip to
Francfort on the Main being
present at the coronation of the Emperor. Add to this Mozart
is composing an ordered work for
Schikaneder's
theater on the
Wieden: "
The Magic Flute"
(orig. German: "Die Zauberflöte"), and there is an ordered
music peace for the
Duke Walsegg: "
Requiem".
This requiem remains incomplete. At the beginning Walsegg
claims to be the composer.
And on 26 July 1791 there is a second son born who survives:
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart.
Then, Mozart is dying because of a heavy illness, probably
by an always more acute kidney failure. Such a kidney
failure would have it's roots also in the travel strains and
the overload of the nerves during his childhood.
[It can be admitted that the immune system was damaged and
weakened decisively by the overload of the nerves and by the
self-constraint for having always new and new success].
The alleged intoxication by
Salieri is a legend.
Mozart is buried in a grave for the poor, so today nobody
knows precisely where his last place really is.
[The warning concerning
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
At the end the Mozart family is completely splintered. The
whole ambition with all the travels and with child work and
children's torture at the music instrument have not brought
any family ties, but for Wolfgang Amadeus it brought only
stress and poverty, so he could not even afford a grave
stone at the end. Add to this it can be that a strange
behavior of Mozart in Vienna played a role when he was
always rejected there. And also some racism in Vienna
against foreign people can be possible as it had been with
other persons who wanted to establish themselves in Vienna
and were always rejected.
This example of the Mozart family is a warning to evade a
forced education with child work. Children have to develop
their psychological roots and their relationships
themselves, and for that a balance of the powers is needed
in the family and not at all any force for playing music
with a career ambition is needed, with world trips in the
childhood. Salzburg is celebrating Wolfgang Amadeus, and at
the same time he is a multiple abused child - but this is
never mentioned.
Until today any force against children for playing music is
not rated as a crime. Forced marriage is forbidden in the
meantime, but enforced music education remains without
punishment. There is missing a supplement of the children's
law punishing the enforced music education (punishing the
enforced music toy called music instrument), so such a law
would help to evade such children's fate which are
widespread until today (enforced music training, enforced
concerts, the music playing child is the "decoration" of the
family, but principally these children do not want to make
music at all, and there are music teachers being enforced to
enforce these children for playing music etc.). There is
missing any sociological study about this topic. Salzburg
would have every reason to be a pioneer in this topic].
4.
Constance Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's wife
Maria Constantia Caecilia Josepha Aloisia Mozart, born
Weber (born on 5 January 1762 in
Zell in Wiese
valley in South Germany in the Black Forest, died on 6 March
1842 in
Salzburg).
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Constance
Mozart, W.A.Mozart's wife, born Weber
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Her father is a brother of
Carl Maria von Weber.
This brother has to give up is working post as a district
magistrate in Zell, so there is a change of the domicile to
Mannheim. There he is bass player, copyist and
prompter.
In 1777 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gets to know the family the
first time getting a rejection from the elder sister of
Constance,
Aloysia.
In 1778 the Weber family is changing it's domicile to
Munich, and in 1779 to Vienna. The three sisters become
professional singers.
At 4 August 1782 there is the marriage of Wolfgang Amadeus
and Constance Weber. They have 6 children, but only two of
them survive:
Karl Thomas, born in 1784, and
Franz
Xaver Wolfgang, born in 1791.
After Mozart's death in 1791 Constance Weber is marrying in
1809 again, now a Danish diplomat
Georg Nikolaus Nissen
(1761-1826).
In 1810 there is the change to
Copenhague, in 1820
to Salzburg where
Nissen is recollecting material
for Mozart's biography which is published by Constance after
his death.
[Constance Mozart resp. Constance Nissen reaches an age of
80 years, a very great age in these times, without so much
music travel stress during the childhood].
5.
Mozart, Karl Thomas; first son of Wolfgang Amadeus and
Constance
born on 21 September 1784 in Vienna,
died on 31 October 1858 in Milan. He is
the elder of the two surviving sons of Wolfgang
Amadeus and Constance Mozart. He is educated with
Mrs. Niemetschek in Prague 1792-97
and gets piano lessons with Duschek.
In 1797 he is becoming a member of a business
house in Livorno, but the trial installing
an own piano commerce is failing.
In 1806 his domicile is changing to Milan.
Karl Thomas recommended by Haydn becomes a
pupil of Asioli.
In 1810 Karl Thomas is giving up any music stress
and becomes an official in Milan. At the
end he is imperial k.u.k. official in the statal
account department. When he died all legacy was
given to Mozarteum Salzburg (with a concert piano
of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart).
[Karl Thomas dies with 74 years, really old for
this period, without music stress].
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W.A.Mozart'
children: Franz Xaver Wolfgang (left)
and Karl Thomas (right)
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Mozart, Franz Xaver Wolfgang; second son of Wolfgang
Amadeus and Constance
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W.A.Mozart's
son
Franz Xaver Mozart, appr. 40 years old
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He was also called Wolfgang Amadeus (born on 26 July 1791 in
Vienna, died in 29 July 1844 in
Carlsbad),
second surviving son of W. A. and Constance Mozart.
He becomes a pianist and composer in Austria, takes music
lessons with
Neukomm, A. Streicher, Hummel (piano),
Salieri (singing), with
Abbé Vogler and with
Albrechtsberger (composition).
In 1802 (with 11 years) his first music composition is a
piano quartet op. 1. In 1805 there is a first performance in
Vienna as a composer and pianist. In 1808 (with 17
years) he becomes a home music teacher in
Galicia,
since 1810 he becomes piano teacher and choir director in
Lemberg.
In 1818 he makes an art travel to
Russia, Poland,
Denmark, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and
Austria.
He mostly plays music peaces of his father and own
compositions.
In 1834 he gets a working post as a band leader at
Lemberg
theater. In 1838 he changes his domicile to Vienna giving
music lessons and fostering contacts.
[He dies with only 53 years, with music stress].
His musical heritage is stored in Mozarteum in Salzburg,
among other things there are two piano concertos, piano
chamber music, piano music, one symphony, cantatas and
songs.
