Aloysia Weber
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Aloysia Weber (born Zell or Mannheim, c 1761 - died Salzburg 8 June 1839) was a German soprano, the sister of Constanze Weber, who was the wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart dated Aloysia for a short time, but Aloysia later broke the relationship after a few months. Aloysia met Mozart on his ill-fated trip to Paris when he stayed in her city of Mannheim. He expressed a desire to marry her, though it's not clear exactly how serious, or how mutual, the thoughts were. He wrote a number of concert arias for her, and it is believed that she was the first Queen of the Night in the Magic Flute. Their paths crossed again when Mozart was living in Vienna; he lived for a few months in her family's house. She expressed no interest in the composer, and he married her younger sister, Constanze, instead. Aloysia Weber married Joseph Lange, actor and painter, who made a welknown and unfinished portrait of Mozart.
Their ill-fated romance is novelized in the book Marrying Mozart by Stephanie Cowell (New York: Penguin, 2004).
Weblinks: www.infonet.com.br/mozart/Aloi.htm
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