Anna Maria Mozart

Anna Maria Walburga Mozart née Pertl ( born December 25, 1720 in Sankt Gilgen, † July 3, 1778 in Paris) was the mother of Anna Maria and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Her mother Eva Rosina Barbara Puxbaum, nee Altmann (1681-1755), was the daughter of a native of Vienna "kk sworn notary " Dominik Altmann ( 1636 - ~ 1702). Her father, Wolfgang Nikolaus Pertl (1667-1724), came from a peasant family, but he had a law degree completed in Salzburg. During his studies, he joined as a bass soloist in the school plays at his university. He also appeared as Choralist at the Abbey of St. Peter and also gave singing lessons. After his appointment to the archiepiscopal Salzburgian Pflegekommissarius on March 4, 1726, he resided at first in the old castle Hüttenstein on Krottensee between Mondsee and Abersee and then moved into an apartment in the newly built office building in Ischlerstraße 15 in St. Gilgen, become a district court, where Anna Mary was born. When the father died four years after her birth, he left the family with significant debt.

On November 21, 1747 Anna Maria married the composer Leopold Mozart in Salzburg Cathedral. With him she had seven children, of which only two survived to adulthood, Maria Anna, called Nannerl (1751-1829), and Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), whose name was chosen in honor of Wolfgang maternal grandfather. Nannerl later married one of the official successor of this grandfather, Johann Baptist von Berchtold zu Sonnenburg, and lived with him in St. Gilgen again the birthplace of her mother.

Anna Maria Mozart died in Paris, where she had accompanied her son. Purpose of this trip was to find an advantageous place for Wolfgang. Father Leopold was not a holiday been granted for it. The mother's death shook Mozart deep. Several up now famous letters that Mozart wrote from Paris to his father treat this tragic event.