“That’s a very interesting question,” says Eva Rieger, retired professor of music history at the University of Bremen and author of the German-language biography Nannerl Mozart: Life of an Artist in the 1800s. But as one of Wolfgang’s earliest musical role models, does history owe her some measure of credit for his genius? The young virtuoso, nicknamed Nannerl, was quickly overshadowed by her brother, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, five years her junior. “What it all amounts to is this, that my little girl, although she is only 12 years old, is one of the most skillful players in Europe.” “My little girl plays the most difficult works which we have … with incredible precision and so excellently,” her father, Leopold, wrote in a letter in 1764. When she toured Europe as a pianist, young Maria Anna wowed audiences in Munich, Vienna, Paris, London, the Hague, Germany and Switzerland. “Virtuosic.” “A prodigy.” “Genius.” These words were written in the 1760s about Mozart-Maria Anna Mozart.
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