Franz Mozart was a German mason and the grandfather of Leopold Mozart

Leopold Mozart

Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.-Childhood and student years:He was born in Augsburg, son of...

 and great-grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

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He worked as a master mason and lived in Fuggerei

Fuggerei

The Fuggerei is the world's oldest social housing complex still in use. It is a walled enclave within the city of Augsburg, Bavaria. It takes it name from the Fugger family and was founded in 1516 by Jacob Fugger the Younger as a place where the needy citizens of Augsburg could be housed...

 since 1681. A commemorative plaque at his house there, “Mittlere Gasse Nr. 14”, commemorates him today.

Franz Mozart is not to be confused with Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart , also known as F. X. Mozart, W. A. Mozart Son, or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jr., was the youngest child of six born to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze. He was the younger of his parents' two surviving children...

, the youngest son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

External links

• Die Mozartstadt Augsburg: „die vatterstadt meines papa“, regio-augsburg.de (German).