Maria Anna Mozart

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Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Lucy Powell tells the story of five brilliant women, all the siblings of renowned achievers in the arts and science, whose own success was overlooked – either by their own epoque, or by the annals of history ever since. Virginia Woolf famously reflected on the neglect of brilliant women with her fiction of "Shakespeare’s Sister". In this first episode, Lucy considers the life of Mozart’s older sister Maria - nicknamed Nannerl - a gifted musician whose playing inspired a young Wolfgang Amadeus to study music. Nannerl was once celebrated throughout Europe as a child prodigy, but when she turned 18 she was left at home while her brother blazed his way onto the world stage. Produced by Debbie Kilbride A Tempo & Talker production