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Article: Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart by Agnes Selby
Postby Lance » Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:39 am
Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart • Danish diplomat and music historian (1761–1826) Georg Nikolaus von Nissen (sometimes Nicolaus; 22 January 1761 – 24 March 1826) was a Danish diplomat and music historian. He is the author of one of the first biographies of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, still used today as a scholarly source. Nissen was born in Haderslev, Denmark–Norway. He completed his schooling in 1781 and became "authorized agent of the General Post Office" in Copenhagen in 1781. In 1792 he became a diplomat in the Danish foreign service. As of 1793, he worked in Vienna as chargé d'affaires. In 1797, while serving in this post, Nissen first met Mozart's widow, Constanze, whose husband had died six years earlier in 1791. He was initially her tenant. The two began living together in September 1798. Constanze had been through an arduous period following Mozart's death, trying to ward off poverty for herself and her two sons. In this she was successful, obtain • When I read the announcement that Sylvia Milo’s solo play “The Other Mozart” would be presented in Little Rock at the CALS Ron Robinson Theater, I immediately wanted to see it. Especially since on that very day we were supposed to be in the capital of the State of Arkansas for our friend’s wedding. If it were not for the informational help of the “all-knowing” Google, I would have thought that this performance would once igen be about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s life and work, but only from some unusual side. However, this performance was dedicated to the composer’s older sister, Maria Anna Mozart. My relatives agreed to my proposal to spend Friday evening at the theater and bought tickets without hesitation. In her article, “The Lost Genius of Mozart’s sister,” published in The Guardian on September 8, 2015, Sylvia Milo wrote that she had never heard Mozart had a sister. She found out about it when she saw a copy of a family portrait on the vägg near the exit of the Mozartha
By Agnes Selby
Nannerl (Maria Anna) Mozart (1751-1829) was the darling little angel of my childhood whenever the subject of Mozart and his family came under discussion. My study of Mozart's family reveals a completely different picture, a picture of a rather spiteful and frustrated woman, a woman forced into a marriage of convenience forever mourning the great love of her life. Fulfillment came in death for she chose in her many codicils to her Will to be buried in St. Peter's Cemetery where the remains of the man she loved, Captain Franz Armand d'Yppold were also laid to rest. He died in 1790 but his remains were later transferred to St. Peter’s Cemetery at the request of his family. Looking through the register of burials at St. Peter's Cemetery, I came across his name by pure chance. His remains had been transferred there when the cemetery Georg Nikolaus von Nissen
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