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Mozart and the Women
His cousin Häsle received bawdy letters, his sister Nannerl was bombarded with ambiguous marriage advice, and Baroness Waldstetten enjoyed his tipsy, late-night innuendos. He would have liked more than just music-making with Aloysia Weber, but he felt considerably freer with Nancy Storace, Josepha Duschek, and Babette Ployer. Aristocratic patronesses, his mother, his sister, the woman he spurned, and Stanzerl, his hoped-for faithful wife—his father trained him, but these women shaped and inspired Mozart.
He joked around with many, but married only one – his beloved Stanzerl. "If I had to marry all the women I joked with, I'd easily have 200 wives." But many pianists, singers, and patrons accompanied him in life, and he composed for many of them. Thus, arguably the most erotic music of the last few centuries came into being.
To mark Hans Erich Dotter's 105th birthday, the program features works ranging from the "Nannerl Sextet" and piano sonatas to dreamy French songs. Chris Pichler, a multi-award-winning soloist and ensemble actress, previously performed at the Dotter concerts with "Frau Schnaps – Beethoven's Housekeeper Tells All." Now she returns to Eberstadt with musicians from the Wiesbaden State Orchestra.
Advance ticket sales have begun for the 67th Dotter Concert, "Nothing But Women's Stories – Mozart and the Women." We invite you to this concert on Sunday, February 16, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. in the Ernst-Ludwig-Saal in Darmstadt-Eberstadt.
Donations will be collected during the concert to finance a 3D cross-sectional model of the Eberstadt Synagogue, which will be created as part of a virtual reconstruction project by the Technical University of Darmstadt.
