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Weber, Fridolin (EN)

Biography

Weber Franz Fridolin, *1733 (?) Zell im Wiesental (Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg), †23 October 1779 Vienna, German singer (bass) and violinist, grandson of the family’s progenitor Hans Georg Weber (1650–1704) of Stetten in Bavaria and son of Fridolin Weber (1691–1754), founder of the musical dynasty. In 1756, he married Maria Cäcilia Stamm (1727–1793); three daughters from this marriage were singers, one of them, Konstanze [Constanze], became a wife of W.A. Mozart. Fridolin Weber was a clerk in the Barony of Schönau and, from 1765, a singer and copyist at the Hofkapelle in Mannheim.