HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Cäcilia Cordula Weber (
née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...
Stamm; 23 October 1727 – 22 August 1793) was the mother of Constanze Weber and the mother-in-law of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...
.


Biography

She was born in
Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (), is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, second-largest city in Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, the States of Ger ...
, 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:
Josepha Josepha is a given name that works as the feminine variant of the name Joseph. People with the given name * Josepha Abiertas (1894–1929), Filipino lawyer and feminist, first woman to obtain a degree from the Philippine Law School * Josepha ...
, Aloysia, Constanze, and
Sophie Sophie is a feminine given name, another version of Sophia, from the Greek word for "wisdom". People with the name Born in the Middle Ages * Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson * Soph ...
. 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 Zell im Wiesental (, ) is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the Black Forest, on the river Wiese, 26 km northeast of Basel, and 32 km south of Freiburg. The town is famous for being ...
, 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 Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...
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 Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
.


Notes

Sources * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Weber, Caecilia 1727 births 1793 deaths 18th-century people from the Holy Roman Empire 18th-century German people 18th-century Austrian women Mozart family Austrian people of German descent People from Mannheim People from Wieden Cacilia