true, the facts remain the same. Threeand a half years after a young musician named Aloysia Weber refused Mozart's marriage proposal,he married her younger sister Constanze, on August 4, 1782.What sort of person was Constanze Weber?Mozart, who nicknamed his bride Stanzerl,described her this way, 'She is not ugly, but at thesame time, far from beautiful. Her entire beautyconsists of two little black eyes and a nice figure.She isn't witty, but has enough common sense tomake her a good wife and mother .... Sheunderstands housekeeping and has the kindestheart in the world. I love her and she loves me....' .Constanze Mozart's life was far from easy. FromJune 1783 to July 1791, she bore six children. TheMozarts' first child, Raimund Leopold, died at theage of two months of an 'intestinal cramp' while hisparents were away on a visit to Salzburg. Theirthird, Johann Thomas Leopold, lived less than amonth, their fourth, Theresia, six months, and theirfifth, Anna Maria, only one hour. The Mozarts were left with only two surviving children, whomWolfgang barely had time to know. When he died, the eldest was seven years old, and theyounger only six months. After Mozart's death, Constanze met and evetually married Nikolaus vonNissen, an official in the Danish Embassy, and it was he who raised Mozart's sons. von Nissendied in 1826, and Constanze in 1842.The two boys led fairly uneventful lives. The elder, Karl Thomas (b. 1784), ended up as a minorofficial on the staff of the viceroy of Naples in Milan. He died in 1858. The younger, Franz XaverWolfgang, inherited his father's musical inclinations, if not all of his talent. He composed andconducted extensively throught Europe, but perhaps the last word on this 'Wolfgang AmadeusMozart the Younger' was best spoken by George Bernard Shaw in a letter he wrote in 1897. 'Doyou remember the obscurity of Mozart's son? An amiable man, a clever musician, an excellentplayer, but hopelessly extinguished by his fath...