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 | | In 1781, the Webers had followed Aloysia to Vienna, where she was engaged to sing at the imperial theater. |
 | | In an attempt to placate Leopold, who was quite vocal in his distrust of the Webers, Mozart’s letters to his father paint Constanze as sweet, industrious, quiet, thrifty, and modest, in short the perfect wife and helpmate, and to reinforce the contrast, paint Aloysia in the flest of terms. |
 | | In order to impress his father with the sober, industrious life he himself was leading in Vienna, he mentioned a half-finished Mass he had written for Constanze, in fulfillment of a vow he had made if she recovered from an undisclosed illness and allowed him to marry her. |
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