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| | SOPHIE WEBER HAIBL: MOZART'S MOTHER, MARIA ANNA |
 | | Mozart gave me and my older sisters lessons on the pianoforte, and was at that time particularly solicitous of my elder sister, Aloysia, a budding opera singer. |
 | | Maria Anna Mozart, nee Pertl, was born in Saint Gilgen, a lakeside village not more than a day's journey from Salzburg, in December of 1720, being one year younger than her future husband, Leopold. |
 | | Sooner or later, the comely Maria Anna and the dashing, eligible bachelor-about-town Leopold, who had taken his bachelor lodgings in the very selfsame Getreidegasse, were destined to meet, and (I being a romantic, know this to be true)--to fall in love, and then to marry. |
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