Constanze, Mozart's Beloved

Constanze, Mozart's Beloved

Author: Agnes Selby

Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag

Published: 2013-09-10

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 3990121170

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Constanze, the wife of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, was not the foolish and self-interested individual of popular opinion, much of which is based on the views of Mozart's father, who believed that his son had chosen an inappropriate partner. This strong-minded woman was, however, to be of critical support to her beloved husband. From a family of accomplished musicians, she was possessed of a fine voice and sang in public performances of a number of Mozart's works, both before and after his death. She bore him six children, of whom two survived childhood. Her business acumen was such that after his death she was largely responsible for keeping his music before the public, organising concerts, securing the accurate publication of many of his works, including the Requiem, and acquiring patronage from the aristocracy. Her second marriage to the Dane, Georg Nikolaus Nissen, continued a life story which is a rich example of self-sufficiency and competence in an era when a woman in business was a rarity. Importantly, this book restores the reputation of a woman much maligned by history. Revised edition


Constanze Mozart

Constanze Mozart

Author: Heinz Gärtner

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Om Constanze Mozarts (1762-1842) liv efter ægtefællen Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts (1761-1826) død


Constanze Mozart

Constanze Mozart

Author: Heinz Gärtner

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Om Constanze Mozarts (1762-1842) liv efter ægtefællen Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts (1761-1826) død


Mozart

Mozart

Author: Franz Xaver Niemetschek

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1845452313

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Franz Xaver Niemetschek was born in 1766 in what is now the Czech Republic and came from a musical family, which gave him a deep appreciation and admiration for Mozart's genius. In 1798 he published his biography on Mozart, with a touching dedication to Haydn, the only one written by an eyewitness, and authorized by Mozart's widow Constanze. It is one of the earliest specimens of musical biography which, compared with other branches of biography, was still in its infancy even in the later part of the 19th century. In this sense, it is an important document of music history. However, this loving and intimate portrait of Mozart, based on documents, letters and other original sources, also conveys a vivid picture of the social and especially courtly life that formed the background of Mozart's sheer magical talents as composer and virtuoso.


Constanze Mozart

Constanze Mozart

Author: Renate Welsh

Publisher: Ariadne Press (CA)

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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Fifty years after the death of her husband, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Constanze reflects on her long life.


Constanze, Formerly Widow of Mozart

Constanze, Formerly Widow of Mozart

Author: Klemens Diez

Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. : Queenston, Ont. : Edwin Mellem Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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This book will do much to improve the reputation of Constanze Mozart, who has been vilified as having been an unworthy wife to one of the greatest musical geniuses of all time and has been blamed for his poverty and his less-than-glorious, premature death. Although a work of fiction and historical surmise, Constanze, Formerly Widow of Mozart stays close enough to the sparse biographical details of Constanze's life that the book has a tone of veracity and authenticity that is augmented by Malloy's footnotes and afterword.


Mozart

Mozart

Author: SimonP. Keefe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 601

ISBN-13: 1351557912

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This volume of essays on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reflects scholarly advances made over the last thirty years. The studies are broad and focused, demonstrating a large number of viewpoints, methodologies and orientations and the material spans a wide range of subject areas, including biography, vocal music, instrumental music and performance. Written by leading researchers from Europe and North America, these previously published articles and book chapters are representative of both the most frequently discussed and debated issues in Mozart studies and the challenging, exciting nature of Mozart scholarship in general. The volume is essential reading for researchers, students and scholars of Mozart's music.


Mozart-Bibliographien

Mozart-Bibliographien

Author: Karl F. Stock

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-07-22

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 3110939533

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The work Mozart Bibliographies is published to commemorate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday. 1,612 independent and hidden bibliographies as well as reference works on Mozart's life, his works and his family are recorded here with commentaries. It also covers non-independent bibliographies, catalogues of his works, exhibition catalogues, discographies and filmographies. With a few exceptions, all the entries are based on title autopsy. The bibliographies are divided into titles on Mozart's family, Constanze Mozart, Karl Mozart, Leopold Mozart, Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Wolfgang Amadeus d. J. (Franz Xaver Wolfgang) Mozart. The extensive material is indexed by names, titles and subject headings, providing varied insights and access.


The Mozart Family

The Mozart Family

Author: Ruth Halliwell

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 1120

ISBN-13: 9780198163718

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The family into which Mozart was born has never received a rigorous contextual study which does justice to the complexity of its relationships or to its interactions with colleagues, friends, and neighbours in Mozarts native city, Salzburg. Most biographies of Mozart have undervalued the manypassages in the rich family correspondence which do not bear directly on him. This book draws on the neglected material, most of which has never been translated into English. At the heart of the work is a detailed examination of the letters, supplemented by little-known archival material from thepapers of the Berchtold family, into which Mozarts sister Nannerl married. Additional information concerning Salzburg's local history, especially the working conditions at court and the provision for dependants of court employees, enables the hopes, expectations, and fears of the Mozarts to belocated in the context of the social conditions there. As well as providing a sympathetic account of the other members of the family, all of whom were profoundly affected by the experience of sharing their lives with Mozart, this approach gives new significance to the events of Mozart's life; notonly are they set against the background of his familys expectations of him, but the ways in which the source material has to be used for this purpose necessarily involves fundamental improvements in its interpretation. Ruth Halliwell challenges most previous views of the characters in Mozart's family (especially of his father, Leopold), and of the relationships within it. She also introduces a wealth of characters from the Mozarts's circle in Salzburg, from chambermaids to princes, and demonstrates the relevanceof the gossip stories the Mozarts told about them to the larger outlook of the members of the family. In an important final section, Halliwell traces the roles of Nannerl and Mozart's wife Constanze in using, controlling, and handing on the biographical source material after Mozarts death. She discusses their dealings with publishers such as Breitkopf and Hartel, and with the authors of theearliest biographies of Mozart. This complex topic here receives an account which not only illuminates the characters of both women and the relations between them, but also addresses the question of how myths were able to creep into the Mozartian biography at so early a stage and take tenacioushold.


Mozart and Constanze

Mozart and Constanze

Author: Francis Carr

Publisher: Avon Books

Published: 1991-06

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780380698844

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"Historian Francis Carr examines Mozart's life from the time he met and married Constanze, a marriage to which Mozart's father was positively hostile. Carr looks in detail at the circumstances of Mozart's early death and hasty funeral and concludes foul play. Mozart was poisoned, he argues, and rushed to an unmarked grave to avoid autopsy and the subsequent sandal that would expose the murder that resulted from Mozart's adulterous affair with one of his favorite pupils."--Back cover