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) on 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
2. ^ Tenschert, Roland (1931) (in German). Mozart. Ein Künstlerleben in Bildern und Dokumenten. Leipzig, Amsterdam. p. 28. http://www.zeno.org/Musik/M/Tenschert,+Roland/Mozart.+Ein+K%C3%BCnstlerleben+in+Bildern+und+Dokumenten/In+der+Heimat/Mozart+komponiert+den+I.+Akt+des+Oratoriums. 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 0198163711.  (online at Google Book Search)

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Name	Braunhofer, Maria Anna
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Date of birth	1748
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Date of death	1819
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