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Mozart &
Material Culture

Mozart first met Aloysia Weber during his stay in Mannheim in 1777–8, when he gave her musical instruction and composed for her the concert arias K294, K316 and probably the early version of K538; he also fell in love with her, mooting to his father his plans to take her to Italy (an idea to which Leopold objected strenuously).

Anon, Aloysia Lange c1778

After her move to Vienna, Mozart composed the arias ‘Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio!’ K418 and ‘No,che non sei capace’ K419 for her debut as Clorinda in Anfossi’s Il curioso indiscreto. Lange fell out of favour with the Italian troupe and in 1785 was transferred to the less prestigious Kärntnertortheater, where among other roles she sang Konstanze in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem SerailK384. Occasionally she was engaged for the Italian opera, most notably in 1788 when she sang the role of Donna Anna at the Viennese premiere of Don Giovanni K527. She sang the aria to ‘Se il padre perdei’, from IdomeneoK366, at Mozart’s Burgtheater concert of 23 March 1783.

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Lange, Aloysia (c. 1761–1839)

German soprano who originated several roles in operas written by Mozart. Name variations: Aloysia Weber. Born Maria Aloysia Louise Antonia Weber in Zell or Mannheim, Germany, between 1759 and 1761; died in Salzburg, Austria, on June 8, 1839; daughter of Fridolin Weber (1733–1779, a musician and uncle of Carl Maria von Weber) and Cecilia Weber ; studied with Mozart in Mannheim; sister of Constanze Weber Mozart (who married Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), Josepha Weber Hofer (c. 1758–1819, a soprano), and Sophie Weber (1763–1846, who wrote of Mozart's death and married composer Jakob Haibel); married Joseph Lange (1751–1831, a painter), on October 31, 1780.

Aloysia Lange was born Aloysia Weber into a musical family in 1761. Her sister Josepha Weber Hofer was a soprano while another sister, Sophie Weber , married the composer Jakob Haibel. Aloysia is best remembered for her close association with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who once fell in love with her. They first met in 1777–78. Though Mozart married another of her sisters, Constanze Weber (Mozar

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Constanze Mozart

Wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1762–1842)

Maria Constanze Cäcilia Josepha Johanna Aloysia Mozart (néeWeber; 5 January 1762 – 6 March 1842) was a German soprano, later a businesswoman. She is best remembered as the spouse of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who from the evidence of his letters was deeply in love with her throughout their nine-year marriage. Following her husband's sudden death in 1791, Constanze Mozart escaped poverty and supported her family through concertizing and promotion of her husband's memory; she was responsible in part for the extensive posthumous publication of her husband's works. She is also regarded, less positively, as a source of mythology concerning her husband's life, deriving in part from the biography she jointly wrote with her second husband, Georg Nikolaus von Nissen.

Early years

Constanze Weber was born in Zell im Wiesental, a town near Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, in the southwest of Germany. Her mother was Cäcilia Weber, née Stamm. Her father, Fridolin Weber, worked as a "double bass player, promp

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