Mannheim

Mozart’s stays: about 30.7. - 1.8.1763 / 30.10.1777 - 14.3.1778 / 6.11. - 9.12.1778 / about 23. - 25.3.1790

In July of 1763, W. A. Mozart travelled to Mannheim for the first time with his parents and his sister Nannerl. Of course, primarily his five months stay during the years 1777 and 1778 formed a break in the life of the young artist, when he came to Mannheim in the company of his mother only. During this time, the emancipation from his father began; he had human experiences here that affected his entire future life. At times, he also found his private happiness: Although he first fell in love with the young singer Aloysia Weber, he also met her sister Constanze, whom he later married.

In March of 1778, Mozart and his mother travelled to Paris, from where the composer returned to Mannheim alone in late fall of 1778, since his mother had suddenly died in the meantime. The town comforted him: "... in one word, the way I love Mannheim, Mannheim loves me, too", he wrote to his father. In the fall of 1790, Mozart together with his brother-in-law Franz de Paula Hofer, wandered through the square town for the last time. It is assumed that on this occasion on October 24th he himself conducted the Mannheim premiere of his opera "The Marriage of Figaro".