Side-effect No. 1,468 that comes from being a classical music nerd is that you wake up on August 4 and think: Something happened today.
Ah! Mozart got married.
It is Mozart's wedding anniversary! And it was in 1782. I do not have to look it up! You may do the math and figure out what anniversary it is and if we should be giving him presents of tin, copper, aluminum, whatever.
Mozart and Constanze Weber were married Aug. 4, 1782 in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.
Mozart was so thankful that the wedding came about that he wrote his Mass in C Minor, known as "The Great."
He did not entirely finish it but I can tell you, that is what happens when you are writing something for yourself and God and you do not have a deadline.
Constanze is often vilified because everyone is a little in love with Mozart but it is turning out that she was a good woman and a fine wife for Mozart, if you ask me. Heck, he seems to have loved her and there is no evidence that he ran around.
After he died she married the Danish ambassador, Georg Niklaus von Nissen.
We all know what Wolfgang and Constanze Mozart looked like. So above is a picture of them played by Stephen Haggard and Victoria Hopper in the 1935 movie "Whom the Gods Love." I read that book when I was a kid. It was in the library. I wish I had kept it. I do not think I will ever see it again.
Happy anniversary, Mozarts!
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