Maria Anna Braunhofer
Maria Anna Braunhofer (15 January 1748 – 20 June 1819) was an operatic soprano, who created several roles in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.[1]
She was the daughter of F. J. Braunhofer, organist at Mondsee. She trained as a singer in Venice (1761–64) at the expense of Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach[2] and was employed at the Salzburg court. She created the part of Die göttliche Gerechtigkeit (Divine Justice) in Mozart's Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots[3] and was Giacinta in La finta semplice.
Notes
- ↑ Eva Neumayr, ed. (2019). Maria Anna Mozart: Facetten einer Künstlerin. Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag. p. 137. ISBN 9783990125625.
- ↑ The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia
- ↑ Tenschert, Roland (1931). Mozart. Ein Künstlerleben in Bildern und Dokumenten (in German). Leipzig, Amsterdam. p. 28. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
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References
- Halliwell, Ruth (1998). The Mozart family: four lives in a social context. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 73, 93, 110–113. ISBN 0-19-816371-1.
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