She rejected Mozart when he passed through Munich on his way back to Salzburg. While Mozart was in Paris, Aloysia obtained a position as a singer in Munich, and the family accompanied her there. He fell in love, not with the 15-year-old Constanze, but with Aloysia. The 21-year-old Mozart visited Mannheim in 1777 on a job-hunting tour with his mother and developed a close relationship with the Weber family. All were trained as singers, and Josepha and Aloysia both went on to distinguished musical careers, performing later on in the premieres of a number of Mozart's works.ĭuring most of Constanze's upbringing, the family lived in her mother's hometown of Mannheim, an important musical center of the time. Constanze had two older sisters, Josepha and Aloysia and one younger one, Sophie. Her father Fridolin Weber worked as a "double bass player, prompter and music copyist." Fridolin's half-brother was the father of composer Carl Maria von Weber. Kelly also said about him at a rehearsal: " was on the stage with his crimson pelisse and gold-laced cocked hat, giving the time of the music to the orchestra." His voice was described by his wife that it "was a tenor, rather soft in speaking and delicate in singing, but when anything excited him, or it became necessary to exert it, it was both powerful and energetic".Constanze Mozart (née Weber) (5 January 1762 – 6 March 1842) was the wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.Ĭonstanze Weber was born in Zell im Wiesental. He was small and his countenance, except for his large intense eyes, gave no signs of his genius." His face was pitted, from smallpox when he was a child. He was, described by Michael Kelly, "a remarkably small man, very thin and pale, with a profusion of fine, fair hair of which he was rather vain," and then by his early biographer, Niemetschek wrote, "there was nothing special about physique. His appearance description is also interesting. They were seen mostly in his letters and music that he wrote. Mozart's character was interesting to me.
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