Maria Anna Thekla Mozart

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Maria Anna Thekla Mozart
(1758–1841)

Maria Anna Thekla Mozart (born September 25, 1758 in Augsburg , † January 25, 1841 in Bayreuth ; given name Marianne ) was a cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and was known as Das Bäsle through his letters .

biography

A target for Bölzl shooting; Wolfgang and his cousin on his departure from Augsburg in October 1777 on his journey through southern Germany and to Paris

Born in Augsburg as the third and only survivor of five daughters of Franz Alois Mozart, a younger brother of Leopold Mozart , and Maria Victoria Eschenbach, 19-year-old Marianne and Wolfgang, two years older, were born there between October 11 and 26, 1777 Amadé Mozart on the well-known encounter when the two young people developed a very harmonious and most likely intimate relationship. From their subsequent correspondence only 10 letters, exclusively Wolfgang, have survived, including the famous Bäslebriefe, a daring sketch of his “angel”. The experts are still puzzling over the very unusual character of the correspondence due to the choice of words and writing style.

After Mozart's return from Paris , Marianne accompanied him from Munich in January 1779 to Salzburg for about two and a half months , where she might be hoping to marry Wolfgang. The wish was shattered and the previously warm relationship cooled off. One last reunion took place in March 1781 in Augsburg.

Marianne was well educated as a citizen of the imperial city of Augsburg and had gained further social experience as a teenager in Munich . She is described as beautiful, lovable, smart, humorous and fun-loving. In 1784 she gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Maria Josepha, whose father, the cathedral capitular Dr. Theodor Franz de Paula Maria Freiherr von Reibeld generously cared for mother and child.

Marianne Mozart remained unmarried throughout her life. After the death of her mother, who was widowed in 1791, she moved in 1808 to live with her daughter and son-in-law, postmaster Franz-Joseph Streitel. As early as 1803, the only grandchild Carl Joseph had died in the earliest infancy. Via Kaufbeuren in 1812, she and her family finally moved to Bayreuth ( Friedrichstrasse 15) in 1814 , where she lived for 27 years until her death.

Marianne died on January 25, 1841, nearly fifty years after her famous cousin, at the age of 82. A portrait of her cousin that he had sent her from Mannheim in 1778 was found in her estate.

The 58-year-old daughter died just 15 months later. Both were buried in the Bayreuth city cemetery, but their graves can no longer be found. However, two memorial plaques were installed over the years, one at the “Alte Postei” (Friedrichstrasse 15), the other in 1991 in the entrance area of ​​the municipal cemetery (Erlanger Strasse).

literature

  • Stefanie Schlesinger: Mein Violoncellchen - When Mozart's Bäsle blushed , Randvoll Records 2019, EAN 4250095883118 Radio play with music by Peter Dempf (libretto, scenic texts, lyrics); Lyrics from the “Bäsle” letters: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Music: Stefanie Schlesinge r & Wolfgang Lackerschmid
  • Peter Dempf: My heart is so light as a feather . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-8218-0951-5 .
  • Joseph Heinz Eibl, Walter Senn (ed.): Mozart's Bäsle letters. Bärenreiter / dtv, Kassel / Munich 1978, ISBN 3-423-04323-7 .
  • Reinhard Ermen (ed.): "... and I remain the same fool". Wolfgang Amadeus writes to Maria Anna Thekla Mozart . Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34762-2 .
  • Martha Schad (Ed.): Mozart's first love . Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 2015, ISBN 978-3-87437-570-2 .
  • Juliane Vogel (ed.): The Bäsle letters (= Reclams Universal Library; No. 8925). Reclam, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-15-008925-5 .
  • Ludwig Wegele: The biography of Marianne Thekla Mozart . Brigg, Augsburg 1965.

gallery

  • Bayreuth, Friedrichstrasse 15 (formerly "Alte Postei"). Maria Anna Thekla Mozart (Mozarts - "Bäsle") lived here from 1814 to 1841.

  • Bayreuth, Friedrichstrasse 15 (formerly "Alte Postei", memorial plaque).

  • Bayreuth, memorial plaque in the entrance area of ​​the municipal cemetery (Erlanger Straße) for Maria Anna Thekla Mozart

Web links

Wikisource: The Bäsle letters  - sources and full texts
Commons : Baesle Letters  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephan-H. Fuchs: Bayreuth Chronicle 1991 . Gondrom, Bindlach 1991, ISBN 3-8112-0782-2 , p. 175 .
personal data
SURNAME Mozart, Maria Anna Thekla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mozart, Marianne; The Bäsle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION WA Mozart's cousin
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1841
Place of death Bayreuth