14 Facts About Constanze Weber

1.

Maria Constanze Cacilia Josepha Johanna Aloysia Mozart was a trained Austrian singer.

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2.

Constanze Weber's was married twice, first to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; then to Georg Nikolaus von Nissen.

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3.

Constanze Weber's became Mozart's biographer jointly with her second husband.

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4.

Constanze Weber was born in Zell im Wiesental, a town near Lorrach in Baden-Wurttemberg, in the southwest of Germany, then Further Austria.

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5.

Constanze Weber had two older sisters, Josepha and Aloysia, and one younger one, Sophie.

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6.

Constanze Weber fell in love—not with 15-year-old Constanze, but with Aloysia.

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7.

Constanze Weber's rejected Mozart when he passed through Munich on his way back to Salzburg.

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8.

Daniel Heartz suggests that eventually Constanze Weber moved in with Mozart, which would have placed her in disgrace by the mores of the time.

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9.

Constanze Weber's sent Karl and Franz to Prague to be educated by Franz Xaver Niemetschek, with whom she collaborated on the first full-length biography of Mozart.

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10.

Constanze Weber was a trained musician and played a role in her husband's career.

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11.

Extraordinary writing for soprano solo in the Great Mass in C minor was intended for Constanze Weber, who sang in the 1783 premiere of this work in Salzburg.

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12.

My dear Constanze Weber is really the cause of this fugue's coming into the world.

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13.

When Constanze Weber heard the fugues, she absolutely fell in love with them.

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14.

Second, it is documented that Constanze Weber was crippled from debilitating arthritis in her final years of life.

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