Maria Anna Braunhofer

Maria Anna Braunhofer (15 January 1748 – 20 June 1819) was an operatic soprano, who created several roles in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

She was the daughter of F. J. Braunhofer, organist at Mondsee. She trained as a singer in Venice (1761–64) at the expense of Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach^[1] and was employed at the Salzburg court. She created the part of Die göttliche Gerechtigkeit (Divine Justice) in Mozart's Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots^[2] and was Giacinta in La finta semplice.

Notes

1. The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
2. Tenschert, Roland (1931). Mozart. Ein Künstlerleben in Bildern und Dokumenten (in German). Leipzig, Amsterdam. p. 28. Retrieved 2010-04-17.

References

• Halliwell, Ruth (1998). The Mozart family: four lives in a social context. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 73, 93, 110–113. ISBN 0-19-816371-1.