MRS. MOZART, PRE-PAPARAZZI?
posted by James Reel
Monday morning, before I discovered that my blogsite was down, I was all set to upload the following post …
Here’s a link to a recently discovered photo taken in 1840 of a group that includes Constanze Weber Mozart, Wolfgang’s widow. She was 78 at the time; Mozart had been dead for nearly 50 years, but imagine—if he hadn’t expired so ridiculously young, he might have been in this photo, too. Perhaps he would have looked happier to be a subject of the new technology than the dour Bavarians in this picture.… but then, via Sounds and Fury, I learned that the photo is probably not what is claimed. You can read the initial exposé here, and a technical explanation of why the photo can't be what it's purported to be in the second update here.
