The Mozart family had many generations of gifted people, and besides the star kid Wolfgang it could also boast of other music talents.
Maria Anna Mozart (also known as Marianne) was the older sister of the famous composer. Looks like the music talent was somewhere deep in the genes of the family, so Marianne showed evident signs of music talent just like her younger brother – she played harpsichord really well and was a gifted fortepianist too.
But why don’t we play some masterpiece sonatas or concertos by Marianne Mozart’ worldwide today? Or do we? The thing is that back at the time it was not considered ‘appropriate’ for the women to take up activities like that seriously. Yes, as a kid she was welcome to play music instruments and Leopold the father even took her to tours together with brother, but at that period it was for fun mostly. As soon as Maria Anna grew up to 18 years old, her music career was fully over. The society rules and expectations demanded the girl should get married and take up the role of her own family fireplace care-taker. Hardly could Marianne swim against the stream of prevalent standards.
According to some theories, Marianne did compose quite a few works, and what’s she could stand behind some of her brother’s masterpieces. Which ones? We’ll probably never know for sure. What we do know is that Marianne and Wolfgang had really warmth relations, and the latter dedicated the Prelude and Fugue in C Major to his beloved older sister.
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| Mozart family portrait |
But why don’t we play some masterpiece sonatas or concertos by Marianne Mozart’ worldwide today? Or do we? The thing is that back at the time it was not considered ‘appropriate’ for the women to take up activities like that seriously. Yes, as a kid she was welcome to play music instruments and Leopold the father even took her to tours together with brother, but at that period it was for fun mostly. As soon as Maria Anna grew up to 18 years old, her music career was fully over. The society rules and expectations demanded the girl should get married and take up the role of her own family fireplace care-taker. Hardly could Marianne swim against the stream of prevalent standards.
According to some theories, Marianne did compose quite a few works, and what’s she could stand behind some of her brother’s masterpieces. Which ones? We’ll probably never know for sure. What we do know is that Marianne and Wolfgang had really warmth relations, and the latter dedicated the Prelude and Fugue in C Major to his beloved older sister.
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