![]() ![]() Further postponement is out of the question." Heartz relates, "Constanze's sister Sophie had tearfully declared that her mother would send the police after Constanze if she did not return home. Mozart wrote to Leopold on 31 July 1782, "All the good and well-intentioned advice you have sent fails to address the case of a man who has already gone so far with a maiden. Daniel Heartz suggests that eventually Constanze moved in with Mozart, which would have placed her in disgrace by the mores of the time. The marriage finally took place in an atmosphere of crisis. Mozart also faced a very difficult task getting permission for the marriage from his father, Leopold. Surviving correspondence indicates that Mozart and Constanze briefly broke up in April 1782, over an episode involving jealousy (Constanze had permitted another young man to measure her calves in a parlor game). The courtship continued, not entirely smoothly. Mozart moved out on 5 September to a third-floor room in the Graben. Īfter a while, it became apparent to Cäcilia Weber that Mozart was courting Constanze, now 19, and in the interest of propriety, she requested that he leave. In May, he "was obliged to leave", and chose to board in the Weber household, originally intending "to stay there only a week". On first arriving in Vienna on 16 March 1781, Mozart stayed at the house of the Teutonic Order with the staff of his patron, Archbishop Colloredo. The house where the Webers lived (on the second floor) was at Am Peter 11, and bore a name (as houses often did at the time): Zum Auge Gottes ("God's Eye"). By the time Mozart moved to Vienna in 1781, Aloysia had married Joseph Lange, who agreed to help Cäcilia Weber with an annual stipend she also took in boarders to make ends meet. One month after their arrival, Fridolin died. The family moved to Vienna in 1779, again following Aloysia as she pursued her career. She rejected Mozart when he passed through Munich on his way back to Salzburg. While he was in Paris, Aloysia obtained a position as a singer in Munich, and the family accompanied her there. He fell in love-not with 15-year-old Constanze, but with Aloysia. The 21-year-old Mozart visited Mannheim in 1777 on a job-hunting tour with his mother and developed a close relationship with the Weber family. All four were trained as singers and Josepha and Aloysia both went on to distinguished musical careers, later on performing in the premieres of a number of Mozart's works.ĭuring most of Constanze's upbringing, the family lived in her mother's hometown of Mannheim, an important cultural, intellectual and musical center. Constanze had two older sisters, Josepha and Aloysia, and one younger one, Sophie. Fridolin's half-brother was the father of composer Carl Maria von Weber. Her father, Fridolin Weber, worked as a " double bass player, prompter, and music copyist". She became Mozart's biographer jointly with her second husband.Ĭonstanze Weber was born in Zell im Wiesental, a town near Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, in the southwest of Germany, then Further Austria. She and Mozart had six children: Karl Thomas Mozart, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, and four others who died in infancy. She was married twice, first to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart then to Georg Nikolaus von Nissen. Maria Constanze Cäcilia Josepha Johanna Aloysia Mozart ( née Weber 5 January 1762 – 6 March 1842) was a trained Austrian singer. Constanze Mozart as portrayed in 1782 by her brother-in-law Joseph Lange ![]()
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