Mozart and ladies in his life

There were not a lot of women who, next to his big love for music, played an important part in his life. For nine years he had a very happy relationship with his „Stanzerl“.



Maria Anna Mozart, Neé Pertl,
Mozart´s mother (1720 – 1778)
Maria Anna Pertl, born in Sankt Gilgen on Wolfgangsee, married 1747 the composer Leopold Mozart in the Salzburg cathedral. She had seven children from which only two survived. Mozarts mother was a very sociable, cheerful woman. 1777 she accompanied her son on a journey to Paris where she became very ill. She died in July 1778.




Anna Maria “Nannerl” Mozart, Mozart´s sister (1751 – 1829)
Nannerl was four years older than her brother Wolfgang. She was also a child progidy, but took her place behind her small brother. Both children loved each other deeply. At the age of 33 she married the jurist Johann Baptist Franz from Berchtold to Sonnenburg. From this time she lived in the house where her mother had been born in St. Gilgen and gave birth to three children. 


Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, “Bäsle”, Mozart´s cousin (1758 – 1841)
As Mozart 1777 came to Augsburg with his mother a high-spirited and exuberant friendship developed between the relatives. Mozart wrote her a number of letters, which because of their obscene contents and rude vocabulary became famous. After Mozart’s marriage to Constaze Weber the contact was broken.


Constanze Mozart, Neé Weber, Mozart´s wife (1762 – 1842)

Mozart and Constanze were married in 1782 and they had a happy, but short marriage, in which six children were born. Only two sons survived. Constanze corresponded to the emotional and life-style of her Wolfgang Amadeus. She was not a thoughtfull, quiet housewife, which his temperament would not have endured. After Mozart’s death Constanze saw how the name Mozart became famous. In 1809 she married the Dane Nissan, counsellor to a legation, a warm admirer of Mozarts, who wrote his first biography.