Mozart family

The Mozart family are the ancestors, relatives, and descendants of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The earliest documents mentioning the name "Mozart", then spelled "Motzhart" or "Motzhardt", are from the Bavarian part of Swabia (today the Regierungsbezirk of Bavarian Swabia).

Mozart family

David Moſzhardt (?–1625/6), farmer in Pee, today a suburb of Augsburg
1. David Moſzhardt (1620–1685), bricklayer and master builder in Augsburg; built the tower of the church in Dillingen an der Donau; married Maria Negele (1622–1697)
  1. Daniel Mozart (1645–1683)
  2. Hans Georg Mozart (1647–1719), bricklayer and master builder, guild master, built the provost's church St Georg in Augsburg, collaborated at the Fugger residence
  3. Franz Mozart (1649–1694), master builder
    1. Johann Georg Mozart (4 May 1679 – 19 February 1736), bookbinder in Augsburg, married (i) Anna Maria Banegger, no children; (ii) Anna Maria Sulzer (1696–1766), 8 children including:
      1. Leopold Mozart (1719–1787), composer, married Anna Maria Pertl (1720–1778)
        Maria Anna Mozart ("Nannerl"), (1751–1829), married Johann Baptist Franz von Berchtold zu Sonnenburg (1736–1801), 3 children
        Leopold Alois Pantaleon von Berchtold zu Sonnenburg (1785–1840)
        
        Jeanette von Berchtold zu Sonnenburg (1789–1805)
        
        Maria Babette von Berchtold zu Sonnenburg (1790–1791)
        
        Five other children, all died before the age of 16
        
        Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), composer, married Constanze Weber (1762–1842), 6 children
        Raimund Leopold Mozart (1783–1783)
        
        Karl Thomas Mozart (1784–1858), official in the service of the Viceroy of Naples in Milan; unmarried and no children
        
        Johann Thomas Leopold Mozart (1786–1786)
        
        Theresia Constantia Adelhaid Friederica Marianna Mozart (1787–1788)
        
        Anna Maria Mozart (1789–1789)
        
        Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791–1844), composer and teacher; unmarried and no children
      2. Franz Alois Mozart (1727–1791), bookbinder in Augsburg, married Maria Victoria Eschenbach
        Maria Anna Thekla Mozart ("Bäsle") (1758–1841)
        Maria Josepha Berbier (1784-1842), married Franz Joseph Streitel
        Carl Joseph Streitel (c. 1803), died in infancy
      3. Five further sons, two daughters
  4. David Mozart (1653–1710), a Conventual Franciscan
  5. Johann Michael Mozart (1655–1718), sculptor
  6. Four daughters

Weber family

The Weber family became connected with the Mozart family through the marriage of Wolfgang Amadeus to Constanze. The family were from Zell im Wiesental, Germany and included:

Fridolin Weber (1691–1754), married Maria Eva Schlar^[1]
1. Franz Fridolin Weber (1733–1779), married Cäcilia Cordula Stamm (1727–1793)
  1. Josepha Weber (1758–1819), soprano, married (i) Franz de Paula Hofer (1755–96) (ii) Sebastian Mayer (1773–1835)
  2. Aloysia Weber (c. 1760–1839), soprano, married Joseph Lange (1751–1831)
  3. Constanze Weber (1762–1842), married (i) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) (ii) Georg Nikolaus von Nissen (1761–1826)
    1. six children by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as above
  4. Sophie Weber (1763–1846), singer, married Jakob Haibel (1762–1826)
2. Franz Anton Weber (1734–1812)^[2]
  1. Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), composer

Gallery

Leopold Mozart, his wife and children

Leopold Mozart, c. 1765
Anna Maria Mozart née Pertl, c. 1775
Wolfgang Mozart with sister Maria Anna and father Leopold and a portrait of Mozart's mother
Marie Anna Mozart ("Nannerl"), c. 1785
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Mozart's wife and children

Constanze Mozart née Weber, 1802
Franz Xaver Mozart and Karl Mozart. 1798

References

^ Kiefer, Siegfried (2003). "Die Ahnentafel der Familie Weber". Constanze Mozart (in German). Retrieved 29 September 2010.
^ Massenbach, Camilla von (2007). "Franz Anton Weber". Links. Retrieved 29 September 2010.

Krist-Krug, Gabriele (2006). Hans Georg Mozart (1647–1719). Barockbaumeister einer berühmeten Familie aus Augsburg: Leben und Werk. Augsburg: Wißner. ISBN 3-89639-522-X.
Layer, Adolf [in German] (s.a.). Die Augsburger Künstlerfamilie Mozart. Augsburg: Verlag Die Brigg. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
Sadie, Julie Anne; Sadie, Stanley (10 July 2005). Calling on the Composer: A Guide to European Composer Houses and Museums. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300107501. Retrieved 21 December 2014.

[1] Kiefer, Siegfried (2003). "Die Ahnentafel der Familie Weber". Constanze Mozart (in German). Retrieved 29 September 2010.

[2] Massenbach, Camilla von (2007). "Franz Anton Weber". Links. Retrieved 29 September 2010.

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