Curated playlist
Mozart family
- Cäcilia WeberMozart once ran to his mother-in-law Cäcilia Weber with coffee and sugar under his arm.
- Sophie WeberSophie Weber helped nurse Mozart through his final illness in December 1791. She was the youngest Weber sister.
- Anna Maria MozartAnna Maria Mozart lost five of her first seven children in infancy. She then nearly died giving birth to Wolfgang.
- Maria Anna Thekla MozartMozart's cousin Maria Anna Thekla is remembered through ten letters, all written by him.
- Mozart familyMozart's direct family line ended when his two surviving sons died without children.
- Aloysia WeberSoprano Aloysia Weber earned more than her father at the same theater.
- Maria Anna MozartNannerl Mozart got her brother's piano concertos rolled up in a backpack with candles and lard.
- Leopold MozartLeopold Mozart wrote a symphony that calls for real shotguns.
- Karl Thomas MozartKarl Thomas Mozart was the son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and he died on the 31st of October 1858 as the last of the family line. Most people know the father's name and almost nothing about the children he left behind. Karl was a gifted…
- Constanze MozartWidowed at twenty-nine with debts, Constanze Mozart built a business around her husband's music.
- Mozart family grand tourWolfgang Mozart left Salzburg at seven and came home from a three-year tour writing symphonies.
- Franz Xaver Wolfgang MozartFranz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart was born in Vienna on the 26th of July 1791, four months and ten days before his father died. His father was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and the baby was the youngest of six children born to the composer and his…
- Joseph LangeAn actor, Joseph Lange, painted what Mozart's wife called the best likeness of him.