Stig Östlund

söndag, mars 06, 2011

Constanze Mozart

Constanze Mozart, born Constanze Weber 5 January 1762 –  dead 6 March 1842 was the wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Constanze was a trained musician and played a role in her husband's career.

The extraordinary writing for soprano solo in the Great Mass in C minor,for example, in the "Christe eleison" section of the Kyrie movement, or the aria "Et incarnatus est" was intended for Constanze, who sang in the 1783 premiere of this work in Salzburg. Maynard Solomon in his Mozart biography speculatively describes the work as a love offering.


Et incarnatus est:

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