the other mozarts (and what mozart may have looked like)

[stevie]

mozart had a famous father, who wrote some good stuff, and he had a couple of sons, franz xaver who was also a good composer

also interestingly, as we know there is no photographic evidence of mozart himself, but there is ONE photo of his youngest son, very interesting! perhaps



hahaha mildly interesting

[tds]

wow....that explains the never-ending rumour about the famous jiri hlinka being the direct decendant of mozart

https://home.no.net/jhlinka/contact.html

 

[arensky]

Very cool! Old photographs fascinate me. It's been said in some books that we don't really know what Mozart looked like; not true, we two paintings and a drawing done from life. There are many spurious paintings/images of Mozart, though. These three pix all have the heavily lidded eyes that people who saw him have described, and a similar nose and chin. Karl Mozart seems to have those features too. The daguerreotype is not of great quality, unfortunately. Anyway here are the three Mozart pix from life...

Age 7 or 8



Age 28, painted by his brother-in-law. A piano would have been in the unfinished part of the canvas...



Silverpoint drawing, age 33.

[stevie]

ahhahah i see some mild resemblance! true they must be faily accurate

[pianistimo]

hmm. there is a striking resemblance between the first two pictures - but between the mozart pics below i only see the spacing of the eyes/brows  - and,the placement of the ears.  the nose and lips seem very different. 

well, the thing is that constanze was left alone a lot.  in fact at one point, mozart wrote to her and said he was going to surprise her by coming in thru the window when she least expected it.  i think one time he did.  they had a unique relationship.  i don't think mozart would have roasted her - because he himself was, well, interesting, too.  that might explain why not all the children looked like mozart.