Constanze Mozart

Constanze Mozart
Portrait by Joseph Lange c.1782
Born	Constantia Weber (1762-01-05)5 January 1762 Zell im Wiesental, Landkreis Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Died	6 March 1842(1842-03-06) (aged 80) Salzburg, Austria
Spouses	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ​ ​ (m. 1782; d. 1791)​ Georg Nikolaus von Nissen ​ ​ (m. 1809; d. 1826)​
Children	Karl Thomas Mozart Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart

Maria Constanze Cäcilia Josepha Johanna Aloysia Mozart (née Weber; 5 January 1762 – 6 March 1842) was a German soprano, later a businesswoman. She is best remembered as the spouse of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who from the evidence of his letters was deeply in love with her throughout their nine-year marriage. Following her husband's sudden death in 1791, Constanze Mozart escaped poverty and supported her family through concertizing and promotion of her husband's memory; she was responsible in part for the extensive posthumous publication of her husband's works. She is also regarded, less positively, as a source of mythology concerning her husband's life, deriving in part from the biography she jointly wrote with her second husband, Georg Nikolaus von Nissen.