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Constanze Mozart (née '''Constanze Weber''') (Zell im Wiesenthal, Germany 1763 – 1842 Salzburg ), a first cousin of the composer Carl Maria Von Weber , was the wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Mozart and Constanze Weber met in 1777 in Mannheim . However, Mozart was at first more interested in her sister, Aloysia. When Mozart met the family again in Vienna in 1781, Aloysia had already married. Mozart lived with the Weber family for a time, though he left due to rumours about their relationship. Mozart and Weber married on August 4, 1782. They had six children in about 9 years:
Only two of the children, Karl Thomas and Franz Xaver Wolfgang, survived past childhood. As a result of her frequent pregnancies, Constanze is said to have been weak and often confined to her bed. After Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's death in 1791 , Constanze had difficulties managing to survive with her two children. Eventually she sold the remaining autographs of Mozart's work (including the incomplete ''Requiem'') in 1800, to the publisher Johann Anton André . In 1809 , Constanze married Georg Nikolaus Von Nissen , a Danish diplomat and writer. From 1810 - 1820 they lived in Copenhagen , and subsequently travelled through Europe, especially Germany and Italy. They settled in Salzburg in 1824. Both worked on a biography of Mozart; Constanze eventually published it in 1828, two years after her second husband's death. LITERATURE
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