Cäcilia Cordula Weber (

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Stamm; 23 October 1727 – 22 August 1793) was the mother of

Constanze Weber Maria Constanze Cäcilia Josepha Johanna Aloysia Mozart (née Weber; 5 January 1762 – 6 March 1842) was a trained Austrian singer. She was married twice, first to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; then to Georg Nikolaus von Nissen. She and Mozart had six ...

and the mother-in-law of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Biography

She was born in Mannheim, the daughter of Johann Otto Stamm, a government secretary, and Sophia Elisabeth Wimmer. She married (1733–1779) on 14 September 1756, and had four daughters:

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, Constanze, and

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. Constanze was the only one who did not become a professional singer, but, according to Mozart, she possessed a fine voice and musical ear. The children were born in Zell im Wiesental, but the family moved to Mannheim soon after Sophie was born. Cäcilia first met Mozart in 1777, when he came to Mannheim in search of a job. He fell in love with her daughter Aloysia during this stay, and departed for Paris after finding no permanent position in Mannheim. The family later moved to Munich, where both Aloysia and Fridolin had found jobs in the opera. It was here that Mozart encountered them again (and was rejected by Aloysia), during his journey homeward to Salzburg. The Weber family moved to Vienna in September 1779, still following Aloysia as she pursued her career at the German Opera there. Fridolin died in the following month, and Cäcilia scrambled to keep her family afloat. Aloysia's suitor Joseph Lange agreed to help support the family with an annual stipend of 700 florins when he married Aloysia, 31 October 1779. Cäcilia also made some income by taking in boarders. It was in this way that Mozart re-entered the Webers' lives. In 1781 he settled in Vienna, hoping to pursue his career there, and on 1 or 2 May 1781 he became a boarder in their home (in a building called ''Zum Auge Gottes'', "God's Eye"). Cäcilia asked Mozart to move out when she realized that he had fallen in love with Constanze, for the sake of propriety. Wolfgang and Constanze finally married on 4 August 1782. Mozart's relationship with his mother-in-law had a somewhat rocky start, as she did not get along well with Constanze. However, starting with the birth of Constanze's first child in 1783, Mozart came to grow quite fond of Cäcilia. Constanze's sister Sophie remembered in an 1825 letter:

Well, Mozart became fonder and fonder of our dear departed mother and she of him. Indeed he often came running along in great haste to the Wieden (where she and I were lodging at the Golden Plough), carrying under his arm a little bag containing coffee and sugar, which he would hand to our good mother, saying 'Here, mother dear, now you can have a little ''Jause'' fternoon coffee' She used to be delighted as a child. He did this very often.Quoted from

Cäcilia died in Wieden near Vienna, Austria.

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