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Article: Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart by Agnes Selby
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By Agnes Selby
Nannerl (Maria Anna) Mozart (1751-1829) was the darling little angel of my childhood whenever the subject of Mozart and his family came under discussion. My study of Mozart's family reveals a completely different picture, a picture of a rather spiteful and frustrated woman, a woman forced into a marriage of convenience forever mourning the great love of her life. Fulfillment came in death for she chose in her many codicils to her Will to be buried in St. Peter's Cemetery where the remains of the man she loved, Captain Franz Armand d'Yppold were also laid to rest. He died in 1790 but his remains were later transferred to St. Peter’s Cemetery at the request of his family. Looking through the register of burials at St. Peter's Cemetery, I came across his name by pure chance. His remains had been transferred there when the cemetery first opened its gates. So perhaps, she was reunited with the one love of her life that unlike her father, did not expect her undivided devotion and the renunciation of caring for her first-born son. Nor was he a miser of a man saddled with five children from two previous marriages, the man she fin Biographies of Mozart
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