Mozart's Sisters deficiency

Mozart's Sisters deficiency

fiction
edward w pritchard

Nanerell Mozart's, Wolfgang's sister, real name was Maria Anna and later was called Marianne. As a child of nine, she was considered a prodigy at the harpsichord and when her Father, a famed composer himself, took Nanerell and Wolfgang on tour in Europe, to raise money for the family, she initially received top billing. In time however, Wolfgang's genius in composing at an early age set him in all eye's as the family genius and eventually the Father, Leopold quit composing and the Sister quit touring professionally.

The questions that begs to be answered was the sister, left behind because of lack of talent or de facto discrimination against her as a woman. By all accounts she was a dutiful daughter, bowing out as necessary to her controlling Father. Wolfgang himself, although strong willed likewise had issues with his interfering Father as he got older.

Wolfgang developed as an enfant terrible, and displayed the genius and will necessary to get his talent out to the public despite the provincialism of Salsburg and the times he grew up in.

Nanerell at the Father's objection, did not marry the man she loved, her music teacher, and seemed to live in the shadow of her talented brother, although she seemed a good sister, despite later issues with Wolfgang's wife.

Mozart's son, Franz was also a talented musician but seemed unable to overcome his Father's image. He never married or had children and is remembered to posterity for his epitaph to his famous Father. Was Nanerell a similar situation. Was she paired with a brother, Wolfgang, who was of such genius that her light refused to shine beyond a certain point.

We can never know the motivations of the strict Father of Wolfgang and Nanerell. However, without taking away from the world class, once in a thousand years genius of Wolfgang Mozart; it seems safe to say that the sister, Nanerell Mozart's genius was neglected at age 13 or so, perhaps because she got sick[ as did Wolfgang on tour] and she was thereafter encouraged to stay home with the Mother and her light eventually ceased to shine as genius.

What if there had been no Wolfgang? Would the ambitious Father have put his efforts into developing as a composer his only Daughter? Would Nanerell Mozart then have been the once in a thousand year genius?