Mozart’s genealogical tree

Mozart’s genealogical tree

Uncovering the roots of the genius in the Salzkammergut

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has left us with an enormous heritage that will almost certainly continue to capture imaginations for generations to come. This makes a review of previous generations all the more interesting. Into a time that lies several hundred years in the past and that leads us to the Inner Salzkammergut. This is where Hans Wolfgang Zaller, the late great-great-grandfather of Mozart, was born in 1610 in the small village of Goisern.

Wolfgang Zaller was not an artist, even though his career as a market clerk in Hallstatt did require quite a bit of craftsmanship. In this small, legendary village on the edge of the lake, his wife, Regina, born Pöckl, gave birth to Mozart’s great-grandmother, Anna Sophia Altmann in 1651. In subsequent years they lost contact somewhat to the Inner Salzkammergut, as can be derived from the following genealogical tree.

Mozart’s son, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Amadeus, however, returned to the Salzkammergut in 1821 as a tourist, and visited Ebensee, Traunkirchen and Gmunden. For this reason, we can claim with a straight face and good conscience that some of the blood that enabled the people of the time to survive in the bleak Salzkammergut also flowed in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s veins.

Mozart’s genealogical tree
DATA COLLATED BY Gregor Retsch, Bad Goisern

Sources:
Haraldischgenealogische Gesellschaft “Adler”,
Prof. Heinz Schöny, Wien
Musikwissenschaftliches Institut,
Prof. Walterskirchen, Salzburg
Pfarrmatrikel cath. vicarage Bad Goisern from 1624
Pfarrmatrikel cath. vicarage Hallstatt from 1602

GRAPHIC DESIGN BY Irmgard Piwonka

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