Constance Mozart ( Constanze Mozart) ; full name is Maria Constance Cecilia Jozef Johann Aloisia ( German: Maria Constanze Caecilia Josepha Johanna Aloisia ); nee Weber , later Nissen ; January 5, 1762, Zell - March 6, 1842, Salzburg - singer , memoirist , wife of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , cousin of Karl Maria Weber .
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| Birth name | Maria Constance Cecilia Joseph Johann Aloysius Weber |
| Date of Birth | January 5, 1762 |
| Place of Birth | Zell |
| Date of death | March 6, 1842 (80 years) |
| Place of death | Salzburg , Austrian Empire |
| Allegiance |  Austrian Empire |
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Biography
Constance was the third of four daughters in the family of Franz Fridolin Weber. She grew up in Mannheim , where her father served as a theater bass player and souffleur. She first met Mozart in the theater in 1777, although at that time the composer fell in love with her older sister, Aloysia , a former opera singer at the same theater.
The second time they met was in 1781, when the Constance family moved to Vienna ; Aloysia by this time was already married. Mozart lived for some time in their house, then, because of gossip, he was forced to leave him, but soon, on August 4, 1782, he married Marriage to Constance, who did not receive permission from his parents. Musicologists recognize the influence that Constance had on Mozart’s creative inspiration.
For more than eight years of living together with Mozart, Constance was pregnant six times, but four of their children died in infancy; besides, in the last years of her marriage, she suffered from frequent travels and lack of money, and after the death of Mozart in 1791, she was left alone with two children and her husband’s unpaid debts. The need forced her to organize, along with her sisters Joseph and Aloisia, several concert tours where the works of Mozart were performed, and at the turn of the 19th century to sell manuscripts of Mozart's works.
In 1809, Constancia married the Danish diplomat Georg Nikolaus Nissen, with whom she left for Copenhagen a year later. In August 1824, the couple moved to Salzburg , where Constance and her husband began work on the biography of Mozart. Nissen died in 1826, the biography was published by Constance two years later. Researchers of Mozart’s life and work are extremely cautious about this biography: Constance tended to exclude unpleasant places from Mozart’s letters, and in the biography, as Alfred Einstein writes, it wasn’t without “defamation, concealment and even falsification” [1] . It was Constantia who owned some improbable jokes from the life of Mozart, which served as material for his early biographies [2] .
Constance was buried in the family vault of Mozartes in Salzburg.
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Notes
- ↑ Einstein A. Mozart. Personality. Creativity / Trans. with him. = Mozart. Sein Charakter. Sein Werk. - M .: Music, 1977. - p. 83, 88. - 454 p.
- ↑ Steinpress B. S. Mozart V. A. // Musical Encyclopedia / ed. Yu. V. Keldysh. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1976. - T. 3 . - p . 701 .
Bibliography
- Constantin von Wurzbach: Mozart, Constanze . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. Band 19, Verlag LC Zamarski, Wien 1868, S. 295-297.
- Erich Valentin: Das Testament der Constanze Mozart-Nissen. Mit biographischen Notizen über Constanze und Georg Nikolaus Nissen. In: Neues Mozart-Jahrbuch. 2, 1942, ZDB-ID 206550-2, S. 128-175.
Links
- Antonicek Th. Nissen, Konstanze von . Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 [2003-]. The appeal date is July 3, 2016.
- Mozart, Constanze . Landeskunde Entdecken Online - Baden-Württemberg (LEO-BW) [2015-]. The appeal date is July 3, 2016.
- Mozart, Constanze . Bayerisches Musikerlexikon Online (BMLO) [2005-]. The appeal date is July 3, 2016.
- Mozart, Constanze . Personendatenbank der Landesbibliographie Baden-Württemberg [2011-]. The appeal date is July 3, 2016.