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composing the scena
Bella mia fiamma – Resta, o cara
K528 for her. In March 1786 Mozart accompanied Josepha at the Viennese court and in 1789 she sang at concerts he gave in Dresden and Leipzig.
FIRMIAN FAMILY One of Salzburg’s leading noble families; Leopold Anton Eleutherius (1679–1744), prince-archbishop of Salzburg from 1727, was Leopold Mozart’s first court employer. His brother, Franz Alphons Georg (1686–1756), had four sons, three of whom are mentioned in the letters. Leopold Ernst (1708–83) was bishop of Passau and later a cardinal; Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart celebrated this promotion in Milan in 1772. Franz Lactanz (1712– 86) was chief steward at the Salzburg court from 1736; he represented the archbishop in secular matters and had jurisdiction over the court music. Karl Joseph (1718–82) was governor general of Lombardy and a prominent patron of the arts. He did much to promote Mozart’s career during his first visit to Italy in 1769–71.
GILOWSKY VON URAZOWA FAMILY The families of the two barber surgeons Franz Anton (1708–70) and Johann Wenzel Andreas (1716–99) Gilowsky were well known to the Mozarts in Salzburg. Franz Anton’s son Johann Joseph Anton Ernst (1739–89) was a court councillor and represented Mozart in the settlement of Leopold Mozart’s estate; it seems that his daughter Maria Anna Katharina (1753–1809) was a ‘Figaro’ chambermaid; Franz Lactanz, Count Firmian is said to have arranged her marriage to his servant Simon Ankner in order to have her sexual services close at hand. Johann Wenzel Andreas’s daughter, also Maria Anna Katharina (1750–1802), was a friend of Nannerl Mozart’s; she is referred to in the letters as ‘Katherl’. Her brother Franz Xaver Wenzel (1757– 1816), a doctor, was best man at Mozart’s wedding.
GRIMM, FRIEDRICH MELCHIOR, BARON VON (1723 –1807) Author and diplomat, Grimm was born in Regensburg, Bavaria, and educated in Leipzig. He settled in Paris in 1749, where he became part of the circle around the
Encyclopédistes
and was for a time secretary to the Duc d’Orléans. In 1757 he began to write a weekly newsletter on cultural affairs that circulated throughout Europe in handwritten copies; they were later published as
Correspondance littéraire
(1812). Grimm was the Mozarts’ chief patron during their first visit to Paris in 1763–4, arranging for Wolfgang and Nannerl to appear at Versailles, as well as two public concerts in March and April 1764. On 1 December 1763 he wrote: ‘I cannot be sure that this child will not turn my head if I go on hearing him often; he makes me realize that it is difficult to guard against madness on seeing prodigies.’ Grimm again helped Mozart and his mother in Paris in 1778, but after Maria Anna Mozart’s death, relations between Grimm and Mozart became strained.
HAFFNER FAMILY Prominent Salzburg family of factors, whose business encompassed banking, haulage and the import and export of goods for merchants; the firm reached its zenith under Siegmund Haffner the elder (1699–1772), mayor of Salzburg from 1768 to 1772, who left a great fortune. Mozart wrote the ‘Haffner’ serenade K250 (plus the march K249), in celebration of the marriage of one of his daughters, Maria Elisabeth (1753–81), to Franz Xaver AntonSpäth on 22 July 1776. It was performed on the eve of the wedding at the Haffners’ summer residence. He wrote what became the ‘Haffner’ symphony K385 to mark the ennoblement of Siegmund the younger (1756—87) on 29 July 1782.
HAGENAUER FAMILY (Johann) Lorenz Hagenauer (1712—92) was Leopold Mozart’s closest friend in Salzburg. He inherited the family business, which dealt in medicaments, in Salzburg’s Getreidegasse, and married Maria Theresia Schuster (died 1800). The Mozarts rented an apartment from the Hagenauers in the Getreidegasse house from 1747—73, and the eleven Hagenauer children grew up with Mozart and Nannerl. Lorenz another members of the extended Hagenauer