Nannerls Symphony

Wolfi finished with a flourish and stood up to bow. The applause sounded like this afternoon's thunderstorm. Nannerl got ready to stand and curtsy. Surely they would stop clapping for Wolfi soon.

But they wouldn't stop, not until he had bowed and got out his violin. Papa sat at the clavier. Nannerl sat back and groaned inside. Now Wolfi and Papa would play a concerto for violin and clavier and it was already almost nine thirty Nannerl rose to play.

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But others were beginning to stand and gather their cloaks. It was a quarter to eleven. People wanted to go home. Nannerl sank into her chair In The Secret Wish of Nannerl Mozart , Barbara Kathleen Nickel explores the themes of parental favouritism, sibling rivalry, the creative process and the true value of artistic pursuits. The novel opens when Leopold Mozart and his wife are leaving Salzburg to take their two musical prodigy children on a tour. The elder, Nannerl Maria Anna , was once the solo prodigy, acclaimed for her precocious abilities on keyboards, but, by , when the novel begins, the younger child, seven-year-old Wolfi Wolfgang Amadeus is composing and playing on a par with his year-old sister and has become the focus of their father's attention.

Nannerl is jealous when Wolfi is greeted as the wunderkind. Subtly, Nickel shows how Wolfi is favoured over his sister. She is required to do a lot of sewing and packing while he practises with their father. Wolfi is given a violin, but Nannerl is not. Wolfi takes over the diary that she received for her birthday and has already begun.

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Nannerl decides to write something big to draw attention to her abilities, and she works on a symphony during their six month road trip through major German cities, culminating in Paris, France. Although she sometimes vents in her diary, saying that she "hates" Wolfi, her kindness to him when he is sick says otherwise. In one scene, while rubbing his back during his illness, "she started to hum, making up a tune to fit the slow rhythm.

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There was something of Salzburg in it, a falling of snowflakes, grey cobblestones, the clop of a horse. She hummed in bits of Wolfi's laughter, the feel of his hand in hers, the way she could hear his heart when they played duets, even the awful ache she felt in her throat when everyone clapped for him. The economic uncertainty of the Mozarts is apparent when Nickel shows the family waiting around in a city for the local prince to pay them for their performance. In Paris, shopping for new clothes to wear for their performance at Versailles, Papa vetoes a fabric that Nannerl likes because it is dark and would make her look more mature.

If she's too grown up looking, she won't be a child prodigy any more. The Mozarts were not always booked in advance: Bach is delighted with Wolfi, but when Nannerl tries to show him her symphony, he is merely amused. She receives support, however, from three women: Maria Sophia Wenzel Sopherl was a real person and is known to have enjoyed playing music with her brother, the future elector, when they were children. Author Nickel creates a scene in which the elector appears to prefer Nannerl's playing and introduces her to his strangely silent widowed sister from Paris who is visiting him.

Later he gives Nannerl his sister's Paris address and urges her to look her up. It serves as both a landscape and an interior. At first young Nannerl enjoyed and benefitted from her ancillary status with Wolfgang. Her father taught them both, and they performed together on the harpsichord or piano.

For years, the family toured widely Paris, London, Vienna, Munich , showing off the talents of both children. But once Nannerl was too old to be a child prodigy, this could not continue. With the family focused on climbing in social status, it was determined that she should be groomed for marriage. In order to serve as an appropriate spouse, Nannerl was withdrawn from the public stage. Her distress at this loss of the exhilarating life a performer was visceral—months of retching and vomiting—as she was confronted with the end of her touring career.

The curtailing of her horizons was a grim, even brutal development. At home in provincial Salzburg, the sounds of ratcheting gears accompany the gesture of pulling the embroidery needle, in mundane repetitiveness; at the same time Wolfgang is being applauded in the great European capitals and having his operas commissioned and debuted. The intersection of gender and class is sensitively revealed as a factor silencing Nannerl. She exuberantly recalls composer Marianne Martines — , who had autonomy and success: But this was possible for Martines only because of her inherited noble status and financial stability.

In the background, we hear a piano performance of her work mutating into her grand symphony, showing that Martines had some traction even in the sphere of large-scale orchestral works. Nannerl might have attained a success like Marianne Martines. But as a woman it is unimaginable that she would have ever reached the same level of success as Mozart.

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The Other Mozart will help to generate interest in the music of the female contemporaries of Mozart, and, in fact, a complementary pairing of a concert with the play featuring composers such as Martines, Maria Antonia Walpurgis, Maddelena Sirmen, Maria Theresa Agnesi, Maria Theresa von Paradies, Francesca Le Brun, etc. Sylvia Milo introduces the play in several videos, here.

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