Mozart und die Weberischen

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Mozart: Overture to “Les petits riens”, K Anh. 10 (299b)
Non sò, d’onde viene, K 294 (Mozart’s declaration of love to Aloysia)
Ah, non lasciarmi, no, K 486a
Dances from “Les petits riens”, K Anh. 10 (299b)
Laudamus te from “Missa in c”, K 427 (Constanze’s appearance in Salzburg in 1783)
Schon lacht der holde Frühling, K 580 (Josefa Hofer’s first aria)
Der Schauspieldirektor, K 486

Excerpts from Mozart’s letters

Location: Helmut-List-Halle

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They got his Wolfgang in the end after all, the Weber family. That is how Leopold Mozart viewed the situation; he had not trusted the family from Mannheim from the moment he met them. Wolfgang lost himself in the clutches of pretty Aloysia Weber when he was just twenty-one years old. The infatuation did not last long and the Webers moved to Vienna. Shortly thereafter, Mozart also moved to Vienna and married Aloysia’s pointy-nosed younger sister, Constanze, making him a permanent member of the Weber family. The young maestro poured his oaths of love and devotion into the most beautiful arias for the Weber sisters, who were all blessed with immaculate, high soprano voices. Josepha, the third of the three sisters, was the first Queen of the Night and sang “Schon lacht der holde Frühling”, which Mozart had written as a replacement for one of Rosina’s arias in Paisiello’s “Barber of Seville”. Aloysia was Madame Herz in “The Impresario” and even Constanze had her moment in his “Great Mass in c minor”. Johannes Silberschneider plays the maestro once again, telling his side of the Weber story – a side very different to Leopold’s.