Giddy sugarplum or calculating bitch? Pretty Konstanze aroused strong
feelings among her contemporaries. Her in-law's loathed her. Mozart's
friends, more than forty years after his death, remained eager to gossip
about her "failures" as wife to the world's first superstar. Maturing
from child, to wife, to hard-headed widow, Konstanze would pay Mozart's
debts, provide for their children, and relentlessly market and
mythologize her brilliant husband. Mozart's letters attest to his
affection for Konstanze as well as to their powerful sexual bond.
Nevertheless, prominent among the many mysteries surrounding the
composer's untimely death: why did his much beloved Konstanze never mark
his grave?
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