Maria Anna Mozart

Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart ( born July 30, 1751 Salzburg, † October 29, 1829 ibid ), called in family and circle of friends " Nannerl", the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and daughter of Anna Maria ( née Pertl ) was and Leopold Mozart.

Nannerl occurred in her youth with her brother Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Europe as a pianist in concerts. You already played with eleven years the heaviest sonatas and concertos on the piano. There are only passed down from her small Tonsatzübungen, but no original compositions. She never stepped out of the shadow of her brother and focused in later years to her family and her work as a piano teacher. After her father had not consented to a marriage with the Lord Chamberlain Franz Armand d' Ippold, she went in 1784 a marriage with 15-year- old Johann Baptist baron Berchtold von Sonnenburg ( 1736-1801 ) a. This was a successor to her maternal grandfather and so they lived with him in St. Gilgen in his official residence, the birthplace of her mother. Her husband brought five children from two marriages, and they had three children. After the death of her husband in 1801, she returned with her two surviving children Leopold and Jeanette back to Salzburg, where he was a very appreciated piano teacher.

At the age of 74 years she became blind. After her death in 1829 she was buried at his own request in St. Peter's Cemetery in Salzburg.

Her diaries, letters, and memories were and are valuable sources of Mozart research. So it was in 1829 by the English couple Mary ( Maria Sibylla ) and Vincent Novello (A Mozart Pilgrimage - A pilgrimage to Mozart) visited in Salzburg.