Maria Aloysia Antonia Weber Lange (c. 1760 â€" 8 June 1839) was a
German soprano, remembered primarily for her association with the
composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.Born in Zell im Wiesental, Aloysia
Weber was one of the four daughters of the musical Weber family. Her
three sisters were soprano Josepha Weber (1758â€"1819), who premiered
the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute;
Constanze Weber, the wife of Mozart; and Sophie Weber. Her half-first
cousin was the composer Carl Maria von Weber.Shortly after her birth,
the family moved to Mannheim and Aloysia grew up there; she moved to
Munich in 1778, where she made her operatic debut. Her salary at the
Court Theater was 1000 florins per year; her father made 600. The
following year, she was engaged to sing in the National Singspiel in
Vienna, a project of the Emperor Joseph II; the family moved together
to Vienna in September, where the father worked briefly as a
ticket-taker, but he died suddenly only a month after their
arrival.Aloysia continued in a fairly successful singing career in
Vienna over the next two decades.
German soprano, remembered primarily for her association with the
composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.Born in Zell im Wiesental, Aloysia
Weber was one of the four daughters of the musical Weber family. Her
three sisters were soprano Josepha Weber (1758â€"1819), who premiered
the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute;
Constanze Weber, the wife of Mozart; and Sophie Weber. Her half-first
cousin was the composer Carl Maria von Weber.Shortly after her birth,
the family moved to Mannheim and Aloysia grew up there; she moved to
Munich in 1778, where she made her operatic debut. Her salary at the
Court Theater was 1000 florins per year; her father made 600. The
following year, she was engaged to sing in the National Singspiel in
Vienna, a project of the Emperor Joseph II; the family moved together
to Vienna in September, where the father worked briefly as a
ticket-taker, but he died suddenly only a month after their
arrival.Aloysia continued in a fairly successful singing career in
Vienna over the next two decades.
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