Does Mozart have any living descendants?

At the age of 26, Mozart married Constanze Weber from Mannheim. He had six children with her, but only two survived: the two sons Carl Thomas and Franz Xaver Wolfgang. However, they remained childless themselves, which is why there are no direct descendants of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart today.

After Mozart's death, the seven-year-old Carl Thomas came to Prague to be educated, and at the age of 14 he moved to Livorno in Italy, where he began an apprenticeship as a merchant. In 1805 he went to Milan to study music, but then embarked on a career as a civil servant. He died childless in Milan in 1858.

Franz Xaver, who called himself Wolfgang Amadeus on the advice of his mother, received his first piano lessons at the age of five from Franz Xaver Niemetschek, who later became Mozart's biographer, and studied with renowned music teachers, including Antonio Salieri. In 1802, at the age of eleven, he performed his first composition in public. He earned his living as a music teacher and artist. Franz Xaver died in 1844 in Carlsbad, as did his brother, childless.

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