Sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Maria Anna, called Marianne and nicknamed "Nannerl" by friends and family, was the fourth child of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart, and the first one to survive. Educated by her father, she was already learning to play the clavier at age 5, and soon became a prodigious clavichord virtuoso, performing with her brother Wolfgang (5 years younger) throughout the courts of Europe until her teens. She became a sought after accompanist and music teacher in her native Salzburg. One of her pupils went on to become Margarethe Danzig, a very celebrated opera singer in her native Munich. Although she had a sentimental attachment to the director of the nearby Virgilianum (college of noble pages), Franz Armand d'Ippold, born 1730, nothing came of it. In 1784 at age 33 she became the third wife of widower Johann Baptist Berchtold zu Sonnenburg, born 1736, district magistrate of St Gilgen, 30 km from Salzburg, in the house built by her grandfather when he occupied the same post, and where her mother was born. She had a son and two daughters from her marriage, as well as five stepchildren. On the death of her husband in 1801, at a time when Napoleonic soldiers were billeted in the house, she returned to Salzburg with the four surviving stepchildren, her son and surviving daughter and resumed piano teaching. Her sister-in-law Constanze, Mozart's widow, came to live in Salzburg with her second husband Georg Nikolaus Nissen in 1820, and in 1823 Nannerl gave her the collected correspondence to assist the Mozart biography which Nissen was writing. In 1821 she had the great joy of meeting her brother's musician son Franz Xaver and hearing him play. By 1825 (age 74) she had become blind, and although she continued to live alone in an apartment on the Universitätsplatz, Constanze did not neglect her. Nissan died in 1826 and was buried in the Mozart grave in the St Sebastian cemetery, after which Nannerl altered her will concerning her place of burial, so that when she died aged 78, she was interred in St Peter's Cemetery, Salzburg. Her neighbor in a Communal vault is composer Johann Michael Haydn, younger brother of the famous Josef Haydn.
Maria Anna, called Marianne and nicknamed "Nannerl" by friends and family, was the fourth child of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart, and the first one to survive. Educated by her father, she was already learning to play the clavier at age 5, and soon became a prodigious clavichord virtuoso, performing with her brother Wolfgang (5 years younger) throughout the courts of Europe until her teens. She became a sought after accompanist and music teacher in her native Salzburg. One of her pupils went on to become Margarethe Danzig, a very celebrated opera singer in her native Munich. Although she had a sentimental attachment to the director of the nearby Virgilianum (college of noble pages), Franz Armand d'Ippold, born 1730, nothing came of it. In 1784 at age 33 she became the third wife of widower Johann Baptist Berchtold zu Sonnenburg, born 1736, district magistrate of St Gilgen, 30 km from Salzburg, in the house built by her grandfather when he occupied the same post, and where her mother was born. She had a son and two daughters from her marriage, as well as five stepchildren. On the death of her husband in 1801, at a time when Napoleonic soldiers were billeted in the house, she returned to Salzburg with the four surviving stepchildren, her son and surviving daughter and resumed piano teaching. Her sister-in-law Constanze, Mozart's widow, came to live in Salzburg with her second husband Georg Nikolaus Nissen in 1820, and in 1823 Nannerl gave her the collected correspondence to assist the Mozart biography which Nissen was writing. In 1821 she had the great joy of meeting her brother's musician son Franz Xaver and hearing him play. By 1825 (age 74) she had become blind, and although she continued to live alone in an apartment on the Universitätsplatz, Constanze did not neglect her. Nissan died in 1826 and was buried in the Mozart grave in the St Sebastian cemetery, after which Nannerl altered her will concerning her place of burial, so that when she died aged 78, she was interred in St Peter's Cemetery, Salzburg. Her neighbor in a Communal vault is composer Johann Michael Haydn, younger brother of the famous Josef Haydn.
Sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Maria Anna, called Marianne and nicknamed "Nannerl" by friends and family, was the fourth child of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart, and the first one to survive. Educated by her father, she was already learning to play the clavier at age 5, and soon became a prodigious clavichord virtuoso, performing with her brother Wolfgang (5 years younger) throughout the courts of Europe until her teens. She became a sought after accompanist and music teacher in her native Salzburg. One of her pupils went on to become Margarethe Danzig, a very celebrated opera singer in her native Munich. Although she had a sentimental attachment to the director of the nearby Virgilianum (college of noble pages), Franz Armand d'Ippold, born 1730, nothing came of it. In 1784 at age 33 she became the third wife of widower Johann Baptist Berchtold zu Sonnenburg, born 1736, district magistrate of St Gilgen, 30 km from Salzburg, in the house built by her grandfather when he occupied the same post, and where her mother was born. She had a son and two daughters from her marriage, as well as five stepchildren. On the death of her husband in 1801, at a time when Napoleonic soldiers were billeted in the house, she returned to Salzburg with the four surviving stepchildren, her son and surviving daughter and resumed piano teaching. Her sister-in-law Constanze, Mozart's widow, came to live in Salzburg with her second husband Georg Nikolaus Nissen in 1820, and in 1823 Nannerl gave her the collected correspondence to assist the Mozart biography which Nissen was writing. In 1821 she had the great joy of meeting her brother's musician son Franz Xaver and hearing him play. By 1825 (age 74) she had become blind, and although she continued to live alone in an apartment on the Universitätsplatz, Constanze did not neglect her. Nissan died in 1826 and was buried in the Mozart grave in the St Sebastian cemetery, after which Nannerl altered her will concerning her place of burial, so that when she died aged 78, she was interred in St Peter's Cemetery, Salzburg. Her neighbor in a Communal vault is composer Johann Michael Haydn, younger brother of the famous Josef Haydn.
Maria Anna, called Marianne and nicknamed "Nannerl" by friends and family, was the fourth child of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart, and the first one to survive. Educated by her father, she was already learning to play the clavier at age 5, and soon became a prodigious clavichord virtuoso, performing with her brother Wolfgang (5 years younger) throughout the courts of Europe until her teens. She became a sought after accompanist and music teacher in her native Salzburg. One of her pupils went on to become Margarethe Danzig, a very celebrated opera singer in her native Munich. Although she had a sentimental attachment to the director of the nearby Virgilianum (college of noble pages), Franz Armand d'Ippold, born 1730, nothing came of it. In 1784 at age 33 she became the third wife of widower Johann Baptist Berchtold zu Sonnenburg, born 1736, district magistrate of St Gilgen, 30 km from Salzburg, in the house built by her grandfather when he occupied the same post, and where her mother was born. She had a son and two daughters from her marriage, as well as five stepchildren. On the death of her husband in 1801, at a time when Napoleonic soldiers were billeted in the house, she returned to Salzburg with the four surviving stepchildren, her son and surviving daughter and resumed piano teaching. Her sister-in-law Constanze, Mozart's widow, came to live in Salzburg with her second husband Georg Nikolaus Nissen in 1820, and in 1823 Nannerl gave her the collected correspondence to assist the Mozart biography which Nissen was writing. In 1821 she had the great joy of meeting her brother's musician son Franz Xaver and hearing him play. By 1825 (age 74) she had become blind, and although she continued to live alone in an apartment on the Universitätsplatz, Constanze did not neglect her. Nissan died in 1826 and was buried in the Mozart grave in the St Sebastian cemetery, after which Nannerl altered her will concerning her place of burial, so that when she died aged 78, she was interred in St Peter's Cemetery, Salzburg. Her neighbor in a Communal vault is composer Johann Michael Haydn, younger brother of the famous Josef Haydn.
