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4 unusual facts about Maria Anna Mozart


Maria Anna Mozart

Marianne and her family were noted in The 39 Clues series as members of the Cahill family branch, Janus.

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Biographer Maynard Solomon attributes the arrangement to Leopold's wish to revive his skills in training a musical genius, as he had done with Wolfgang.

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The popular young adult author Carolyn Meyer wrote of Nannerl's life in her 2008 novel In Mozart's Shadow: His Sister's Story.

Maria Theresia von Paradis

Leopold in a letter from Vienna simply described it to Nannerl as a ‘glorious concerto’ and said it had been written for Maria Theresia von Paradis ‘for Paris.’ His description suggests that neither he nor Nannerl knew it already; if this is so, it must have been a later one than K.453, which seems to have been the newest they had in Salzburg at this date.



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