Mozart's Sister by Nancy Moser

Author:Nancy Moser
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Berchtold Zu Sonnenburg, Christian, Historical, Biographical, Fiction, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Maria Anna Mozart, General, Religious
ISBN: 9780764201233
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2006-09-01T05:00:00+00:00

Which were focused on my father and brother's continued absence from home. They missed all our birthdays, Christmas, and even Mama and Papa's twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. For that momentous event all Papa sent Mama was a note in a letter: Today is the anniversary of our wedding day. It was twenty-five years ago, I think, that we had the sensible idea of getting married, one which we had cherished, it is true, for many years. All good things take time!

"It was twenty-five years ago-I think?" I think? Mama had been distraught on the anniversary day and stayed in bed. Her mood was not improved days later when she received the letter. The least Papa could have done was send it ahead of time, to try to have his greeting-bland though it was-arrive on the actual day. And he forgot St. Anne's day, Mama's and my name day, then chastised me for forgetting to send a greeting for his name day-after I did send it.

Yet I'm sure he was too busy to think much of us-except to give us directions about life in Salzburg and to ask for Mama's handcream recipe. And all the letters from Wolfie, complaining about having to sleep in the same bed with Papa and not getting any sleep, or being together all day, every day, and his intense longing for his favorite liver dumplings and sauerkraut, fell on my deaf ears. Papa even presented the news that some grandstands in Milan had collapsed just across the street from where they were sitting-killing some people-as another reason we should not have been along on that trip.

Even their difficulties with the opera performance in Milan made me roll my eyes. So what if Archduke Ferdinand held up the start of the first performance two hours because he was home writing a New Year's letter (obviously not being adept at such things). So what if the packed house grew antsy. Singers who overacted, or got sick and had to be replaced? It was trivial to me. Worthless information. An annoyance in my day.

During their months of further travel, I came to believe that what Papa really wanted was to have his son all to himself. How could I think otherwise? For what man would so eagerly give up house and home, along with the companionship of a daughter who loved him?

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