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We first meet with Carl Maria's ather, Franz Anton, and the tetter's brother. Fricfojin, when both were in ,.»o service of the Elector of the Palat-mate, who maintained an excellent mcatre and an exceptional orchestra at Mannheim. Fridolin, who soon gave p Lhe stage for a legal post, became i;lic* father of Mozart's future wife, *_c«i5lanze, and of Josefa Weber, who married the Vienna actor Hofer and sanff the pari of the Queen of Night in ,iK* first production of “The Magic 'Flute; Mozart and Carl Maria von 'toer were thus cousins by marriage. Franz Anton, a vain, handsome, bump-t.ous pleasure-seeking, restless young : -i.ari. left RJannheCm to fight in the Seven Years’ Wqr. He was wounded at Rosabach. left the army, and was given a post at Hildesheim in the civil service of the Elector of Cologne, Jn 1758, at the age of twenty-Jhree, he married Maria Ann von Fumetti, a maiden a *ear or so younger than himself, the daughter oi his departmental chief, and Fumetti having obligingly died shortly before that event, Franz Anton, j m addition to getting a nice little | dowrv with Anna, stepped into the old i man's official nhpes. Just as at Mann-; helm, where he W been engaged to : sine a;?lt;| make music. lm pined to be at the visra. so now that he fcfld official duties to fsirrform he neglected them for 1:1s fiddling. :In the course of time , he became so unsaiisfactory to his employer that in 1768 he had to be pensioned off. , . ,For some years yet he remained at Hildesheim. but in 1773 he resolved to vc the roati as musician and actor, . dragging his wretched family everywhere with him. Poor Maria Ann. her father's fortune long since squandered i I by her crazv husband, died ih misery , in 1783. ' ...It had always been Franz Anton a ' i desire to see one or other of his child-! rcn turn out to be some such musical I genius as Mozart was. and to this end 1 he betook himself to Vienna in 1784 in : order to place his two elder sons as i pupils of Haydn. The boys were lodged • with a familv named Von Brenner, one i member of which was a pretty daughter
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Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser
Nambour, Queensland, AU
Fri, Oct 09, 1931
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