Maria Anna Braunhofer
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Maria Anna Braunhofer was an operatic soprano, who created several roles in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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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
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 and was Giacinta in La finta semplice
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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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She was the daughter of F. J. Braunhofer, organist at Mondsee
Mondsee (town)
Mondsee is an Austrian town in the Vöcklabruck district in Upper Austria located on the shore of the lake Mondsee. The length from north to south is 9.5 km, and width from east to west is 7.7 km...
. She trained as a singer in Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
(1761-64) on the expense of Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach
Sigismund von Schrattenbach
Sigismund Graf von Schrattenbach was the Archbishop of Salzburg from 1753 to 1771. He was the son of Otto Heinrich, Graf von Schrattenbach, and Maria Theresa, Countess of Wildenstein, widowed Baroness Gall von Gallenstein.After studying theology, he was ordained a priest in 1723...
and was employed at the Salzburg
Archbishopric of Salzburg
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical State of the Holy Roman Empire, its territory roughly congruent with the present-day Austrian state of Salzburg....
court. She created the part of Die göttliche Gerechtigkeit (Divine Justice) in Mozart's Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots and was Giacinta in La finta semplice
La finta semplice
La finta semplice , K. 51 is an opera buffa in three acts for soloists and orchestra, composed in 1769 by then 12-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by the court poet Marco Coltellini based on an early work by Carlo Goldoni...
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