How to read this Mozart family tree
Read the Mozart family tree from the top down, one generation to a row. Children hang from the line that joins their parents, and a married couple stands side by side on one level.
A portrait is a person
A silhouette stands in for a child of whom no portrait exists.
The plate names the person
It gives the years, with a dagger before the year of death, and the work the person did.
A double ring is the centre
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the centre of the chart.
Two marriages for Constanze
Constanze stands between Wolfgang and her second husband.
Leopold and Anna Maria at the top of the Mozart family tree
Leopold Mozart was a violinist at the court of Salzburg. He rose to deputy Kapellmeister in 1763, the highest post he would reach there.2 In 1756, the year Wolfgang was born, he published his treatise on violin playing, the Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule, the work on which his lasting fame rests.2
He married Anna Maria Pertl, and the Mozart family tree draws their two children, Nannerl and Wolfgang, on the second row.2
Nannerl and Wolfgang
Maria Anna Mozart, called Nannerl, was the elder of the two. In 1784 she became the third wife of Johann Baptist von Berchtold zu Sonnenburg, a councillor of the prince and the Pfleger of St. Gilgen. After his death she taught the keyboard in Salzburg, and she went blind in 1825.4
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg on 27 January 1756 and died in Vienna on 5 December 1791. He was buried in the cemetery of Sankt Marx.1 The chart writes his cause of death as the record gives it, and says that the underlying cause is uncertain.
Nannerl MozartKeyboard player and teacher.
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartComposer, painted from life in 1782.
Constanze MozartBorn Weber, painted in 1783.
Georg Nikolaus von NissenDiplomat and biographer.
Constanze and her two husbands
Constanze Weber married Wolfgang in Vienna in 1782. She was a singer and the daughter of Franz Fridolin Weber.1 Only two of their six children survived, and after his death she was left in a difficult position for money.6
In 1809 she married the Danish diplomat Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, and the couple lived in Copenhagen from 1810 to 1820. They moved to Salzburg in 1821, where Nissen worked on a life of Mozart.6 After his death in 1826 Constanze published it at Leipzig in 1828, one of the first great biographies of the composer.3
Where the Mozart family tree ends
Four of the six children of Wolfgang and Constanze died in infancy, Raimund Leopold, Johann Thomas Leopold, Theresia and Anna Maria. The chart draws them as infant silhouettes, since no portrait of them is known.
Karl Thomas became a translator in the imperial accounts office at Milan.1 Franz Xaver Wolfgang, the sixth child, was born in Vienna in July 1791, a few months before his father died. He studied with Salieri, appeared as a pianist and composer from 1805 and lived for many years in Lemberg. He died at Karlsbad in 1844.5
Neither son had children, so this Mozart family tree ends with the death of Karl Thomas in 1858. Nannerl had three children, and only one outlived her.4
Dates on the Mozart family tree
Wolfgang is born
Leopold publishes his treatise on the violin in the same year.
Leopold is promoted
He becomes deputy Kapellmeister at Salzburg.
Wolfgang marries Constanze
The wedding takes place in Vienna.
Nannerl marries
She moves to St. Gilgen as the wife of Berchtold.
Wolfgang dies
Franz Xaver is born in July and his father dies in December.
Constanze marries Nissen
They live in Copenhagen and later in Salzburg.
The biography appears
Constanze publishes the life of Mozart that Nissen began.
The people on the Mozart family tree
Each person on the chart has a row. Choose a period to list the people alive in it.
All 13 people on the chart are listed.
| Portrait | Person | Years | Life | On the chart |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Leopold MozartFather of Wolfgang | 1719–1787 | Violinist and deputy Kapellmeister at Salzburg, and the author of a treatise on the violin. Sources2 | |
 | Anna Maria MozartMother of Wolfgang | 1720–1778 | Born Pertl, the mother of Nannerl and Wolfgang. Sources2 | |
 | Johann Baptist von Berchtold zu SonnenburgHusband of Nannerl | 1736–1801 | A councillor of the prince and the Pfleger of St. Gilgen. Sources4 | |
| Maria Anna MozartSister of Wolfgang | 1751–1829 | Called Nannerl. She taught the keyboard in Salzburg after her husband died. Sources4 | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus MozartComposer | 1756–1791 | Born in Salzburg and buried in Vienna, in the cemetery of Sankt Marx. Sources1 | |
| Constanze MozartWife of Wolfgang | 1762–1842 | Born Weber, a singer, who later married Nissen and published his life of Mozart. | |
| Georg Nikolaus von NissenSecond husband of Constanze | 1761–1826 | A Danish diplomat who began the first great biography of Mozart. Sources3 | |
| RL | Raimund Leopold MozartFirst child of Wolfgang | 1783–1783 | He died in infancy. Sources6 | |
 | Karl Thomas MozartSon of Wolfgang | 1784–1858 | A translator in the imperial accounts office at Milan, and the last of this line. Sources1 | |
| JT | Johann Thomas Leopold MozartSon of Wolfgang | 1786–1786 | He died in infancy. Sources6 | |
| TM | Theresia MozartDaughter of Wolfgang | 1787–1788 | She died in infancy. Sources6 | |
| AM | Anna Maria MozartDaughter of Wolfgang | 1789–1789 | She died in infancy. Sources6 | |
 | Franz Xaver Wolfgang MozartPianist and composer | 1791–1844 | The sixth child, born in the year his father died. He worked for years in Lemberg. Sources5 |
Questions about the Mozart family tree
Whether Mozart has living descendants
No. His two surviving sons had no children, so his own line ended in 1858.
How many children Mozart had
Wolfgang and Constanze had six children. Four died in infancy, and Karl Thomas and Franz Xaver lived to adulthood.
How to use this chart in a class
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People and sources
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