![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Franz Xaver Mozart made his concert debut in 1805, and Constanze billed her son professionally as “Wolfgang Mozart II.” Franz Xaver toured widely, but eventually settled in Lemberg, where he remained for almost 30 years before returning to his native Vienna. Wolfgang Mozart died shortly after Franz Xaver was born, so Constanze enlisted the aid of Haydn, Salieri, and Hummel, as the young boy’s teachers. Franz Xaver, however, did become a composer and performer, just as his father predicted. Of Mozart’s six children, only two survived: Franz Xaver and his older brother Carl Thomas, who had no interest in music. The baby’s mother, Constanze, claimed her husband predicted the child would become a musician when he noticed that it cried in tune with the music he was playing on the piano. Mozart nicknamed the new arrival “Wowi” and everyone said the baby was the spitting image of papa, even down to the distinctive Mozart ears. On today’s date in 1791 Mozart’s sixth child, christened Franz Xaver, was born in Vienna. ![]()
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