Maria Anna Thekla Mozart
Maria Anna Thekla Mozart ( born September 25, 1758 in Augsburg, † January 25, 1841 in Bayreuth; nickname Marianne ) was a cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and became known by its letters as the Bäsle.
Born in Augsburg, the third and only survivor of five daughters of Franz Alois Mozart, was a younger son of Leopold Mozart, and Maria Victoria Eschenbach, it was there from 11 to October 26, 1777 between the 19 -year-old Marianne and two years older Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as the two young people developed a very harmonious and most likely intimate relationship to the well-known encounter. From their subsequent correspondence are only 10 letters, remained exclusively Wolfgang receive, the famous Bäslebriefe, a daring sketch of his "Angel " included. About the very unusual by word choice and writing style character of the correspondence, the puzzle experts today.
After Mozart's return from Paris Marianne accompanied him in January 1779 by Munich for about two and a half months to Salzburg, where they may be hoped that a marriage with Wolfgang. The desire was shattered, and the formerly cordial relationship cooled. One last goodbye resulted in March 1781 in Augsburg.
Marianne was made their stand as a citizen of the free imperial city of Augsburg accordingly, and had collected more social experience as a youth in Munich. She is described as beautiful, adorable, clever, humorous and fun-loving. 1784 brought an illegitimate daughter, Maria Josepha, whose father, the canon Dr. Theodor Franz de Paula Maria Freiherr von Reibeld, mother and child supplied generous.
Marianne Mozart remained unmarried all his life. After 1791 the widowed mother's death in 1808 she moved to her daughter and son- postmaster Franz -Joseph Streitel. Already in 1803 had passed the only grandchild Carl Joseph in earliest infancy. About Kaufbeuren in 1812 she was staggered and his family in 1814 finally to Bayreuth ( Friedrichstrasse 15), where she lived until her death 27 years.
On January 25, 1841 nearly fifty years after her famous cousin, Marianne died at the age of 82 years. In her estate was found the portrait of her cousin, which he had sent her in 1778 from Mannheim.
Just 15 months later died in the 58- year-old daughter. Both were buried in the town cemetery in Bayreuth, but their tombs are untraceable. However, two memorial plaques have been mounted over the years, one of the "Old Postei " ( Friedrichstrasse 15 ), the other at the entrance of the municipal cemetery (Erlangen road).