page_title: Constanze Mozart
section_title: Treatment by biographers
hierarchical_section_title: Constanze Mozart / Treatment by biographers
caption_attribution_description: English: Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at 78 years of age, pictured front left in black 2 years before her death. (Her maiden name was Weber). Bavarian composer Max Keller is seated center front, and to his left is his wife Josefa. From left to right in rear: family cook, Philip Lattner (Keller's brother-in-law), Keller's daughters Luise and Josefa. The print is a 19th-century copy of the original daguerrotype photograph taken October 1840, at the home of composer Max Keller. This copy was found in the archive of the city of Altötting in 2004. Deutsch: Constanze Mozart, Ehefrau von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (geb. Weber), im Alter von 78 Jahren, vorne links mit schwarzem Kleid, zwei Jahre vor ihrem Tod. Links von ihr sitzen der bayerische Komponist Max Keller in der Mitte und seine Frau Josefa links. Hinten von links: die Köchin der Familie; Philip Lattner (Kellers Schwager) und Kellers Töchter Luise und Josefa. Abdruck des 19. Jahrhunderts der originalen Daguerreotype, aufgenommen im Oktober 1840 im Haus von Max Keller. Die Kopie wurde 2004 im Stadtarchiv von Altötting gefunden. Français&#160;: Constanze Mozart, épouse de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (son nom de jeune fille était Weber), âgée de 78 ans, à l'avant gauche en noir, photographiée deux ans avant sa mort. Le compositeur bavarois Max Keller est assis au centre devant et son épouse Josefa se trouve à sa gauche. De gauche à droite à l'arrière&#160;: le cuisinier familial, Philip Lattner (beau-frère de Keller), les filles de Keller, Luise et Josefa. Il s'agit d'une copie du XIXe siècle de la photographie originale, un daguerrotype pris en octobre 1840 chez le compositeur Max Keller. Cette copie a été trouvée dans les archives de la ville de Altötting en 2004.
context_page_description: Maria Constanze Cäcilia Josepha Johanna Aloysia Mozart was a trained Austrian singer. She married twice, her first husband being Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and was later, jointly with her second husband Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, Mozart's biographer. She and Mozart had six children: Karl Thomas Mozart, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, and four others who died in infancy.
context_section_description: According to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Constanze has been treated harshly and unfairly by a number of her biographers: "Early 20th-century scholarship severely criticized her as unintelligent, unmusical and even unfaithful, and as a neglectful and unworthy wife to Mozart. Such assessments (still current) were based on no good evidence, were tainted with anti-feminism and were probably wrong on all counts." Complaints about unfairness to Constanze also appear in several recent Mozart biographies: Braunbehrens (1990), Solomon (1995), and Halliwell (1998).
caption: 1840 daguerreotype reportedly showing Constanze Mozart (see text for serious doubts), front on the far left, two years before her death; Bavarian composer Max Keller [de] is seated center front and to his left is his wife, Josefa; from left to right in rear are the family cook, Philip Lattner (Keller's brother in law), and Keller's daughters, Luise and Josefa; the image was first brought to scholarly attention in 1958.[22]
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