Johann Georg Mozart (1679-1736) was a
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who lived in
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,
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in the 17th and 18th centuries. He was the father of
Leopold MozartJohann Georg Leopold Mozart was a 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 Johann...
and the grandfather of
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as...
.
Johann Georg's own ancestors were "artisans and masons", but he pursued a different career, becoming a master bookbinder. He evidently advanced his career when he married the widow (named Anna Maria Banegger) of his former master, and thus obtained his old master's
guildA guild is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade.The earliest guilds were formed as confraternities of workers. They were organized in a manner something between a trade union, a cartel and a secret society...
license.
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Johann Georg Mozart (1679-1736) was a
bookbinderBookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material. It also usually involves attaching covers to the resulting text-block.- History :...
who lived in
AugsburgAugsburg is a city in the south-west of Bavaria in Germany. It is a College town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is, as of 2008, the third-largest city in Bavaria with a...
,
GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
in the 17th and 18th centuries. He was the father of
Leopold MozartJohann Georg Leopold Mozart was a 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 Johann...
and the grandfather of
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as...
.
Johann Georg's own ancestors were "artisans and masons", but he pursued a different career, becoming a master bookbinder. He evidently advanced his career when he married the widow (named Anna Maria Banegger) of his former master, and thus obtained his old master's
guildA guild is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade.The earliest guilds were formed as confraternities of workers. They were organized in a manner something between a trade union, a cartel and a secret society...
license. His first wife bore him no children and died in 1718. His second wife was Anna Maria Sulzer (1696-1766), with whom he had eight children over the years 1719-1735; of these, three boys and two girls survived to adulthood. Leopold, born 14 November 1719, was the oldest.
The family were Catholics and after 1722 lived in a house owned by the Jesuits. They sent their two oldest sons to Jesuit schools.
Neither Johann Georg nor his wife Anna Maria had any direct influence on the life of their celebrated grandson. Johann Georg died 20 years before Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born; and Leopold became estranged from his mother following his move in young adulthood to
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(1737); hence there was no contact between grandmother and grandson during the period their lives overlapped.
Another son of Johann Georg, Franz Aloys Mozart (1727-1791), remained in Augsburg and followed his father's career as a bookbinder (he also occasionally published religious tracts). He was the father of
Maria Anna Thekla MozartMaria Anna Thekla Mozart , called Marianne, known as Bäsle , was the cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart....
, Wolfgang's first cousin and friend.