Background
She was born in Mannheim, the daughter of Johann Otto Stamm, a government secretary and Sophia Elisabeth Wimmer.
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Cacilia Weber
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Career
Constanze was the only one who did not become a professional singer, but, according to Mozart, she possessed a fine voice and musical ear. The children were born in Zell im Wiesental, but the family moved to Mannheim soon after Sophie was born. Cäcilia first met Mozart in 1777, when he came to Mannheim in search of a job.
The family later moved to Munich, where both Aloysia and Fridolin had found jobs in the opera.
lieutenant was here that Mozart encountered them again (and was rejected by Aloysia), during his journey homeward to Salzburg. The Weber family moved to Vienna in September 1779, still following Aloysia as she pursued her career at the German Opera there.
Fridolin died in the following month, and Cäcilia scrambled to keep her family afloat. Cäcilia also made some income by taking in boarders.
lieutenant was in this way that Mozart re-entered the Webers" lives.
In 1781 he settled in Vienna, hoping to pursue his career there, and on 1 or 2 May 1781 he became a boarder in their home (in a building called Zum Auge Gottes, "God"s Eye"). Cäcilia asked Mozart to move out when she realized that he had fallen in love with Constanze, for the sake of propriety. Wolfgang and Constanze finally married on 4 August 1782.
Mozart"s relationship with his mother-in-law had a somewhat rocky start, as she did not get along well with Constanze.
However, starting with the birth of Constanze"s first child in 1783, Mozart came to grow quite fond of Cäcilia. Constanze"s sister Sophie remembered in an 1825 letter:
Cäcilia died in Wieden near Vienna, Austria.
