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Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a German composer, violinist, and music theorist. He is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule (1756).
In 1740, Mozart began his career as a professional musician, becoming violinist and valet to one of the university's canons, Johann Baptist, Count of Thurn-Valsassina and Taxis. This was also the year of his first musical publication, the six Trio Sonatas, Opus 1.These were titled Sonate sei da chiesa e da camera; Leopold did the work of copper engraving himself. He continued to compose, producing a series of German Passion cantatas.
In 1747, he married Anna Maria Pertl, who bore him seven children, although only two of them survived past infancy:

  • Johann Leopold Joachim (August 18, 1748 – February 2, 1749)

  • Maria Anna Cordula (June 18, 1749 – June 24, 1749)

  • Maria Anna Nepomucena Walpurgis (May 13, 1750 – July 29, 1750

  • Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia, "Nannerl" (July 30, 1751 – October 29, 1829)

  • Johann Karl Amadeus (November 4, 1752 – February 2, 1753)

  • Maria Crescentia Francisca de Paula (May 9, 1754 – June 27, 1754)

  • Johann Chrysostomus Wolfgang Theophilus (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791)

In 1743, Leopold Mozart was appointed to a position (fourth violinist) in the musical establishment of Count Leopold Anton von Firmian, the ruling Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. His duties included composition and the teaching of violin (later, piano) to the choirboys of the Salzburg cathedral. He was promoted to second violinist in 1758 and in 1763 to deputy Kapellmeister. He rose no further; others were repeatedly promoted over him to the head position of Kapellmeister.

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Portrait of Anna Maria Mozart (1720-1778)
Rosa Hagenauer-Barducci (1744-1809)

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Portrait of Maria Anna Mozart by Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni (1763)

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Painting commissioned by Leopold Mozart. Mozart is six years old.
The painter did this by first painting the surroundings and clothes and then having the children pose.
Possibly Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni (1721–1782

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The Mozart family on tour:
Leopold, Wolfgang, and Nannerl. Watercolor by Carmontelle, ca. 1763