Hace poco publiqué aquí que se había hallado una fotografía de la viuda de Mozart, datada en 1840. Pues bien, parece que existen ciertas dudas sobre su autenticidad. Javi Moya me pasa el siguiente enlace de Museum of hoaxes: Photograph of Mozart’s Widow.
this is certainly not Constanze but someone’s aunt. The whole story was concocted by Keller’s grandson… There is absolutely no way she could have traveled to visit Maximillian Keller during the period when the photograph was taken. Contrary to the statements made in the newspaper, Constanze had no contact with Keller since 1826. There is no evidence that she had corresponded with him or visited him.
Buceando un poco más he llegado a este artículo en PlaybillArts que cuenta algunos detalles:
The blog SoundsandFury quotes a letter from Dr. Michael Lorenz at the University of Vienna’s Institute of Musicology, who also refutes the claim. He wrote, “The ‘newly discovered’ picture of Constanze Mozart has already been published twice in the 1950s … For decades it has been known as a hoax among Mozart experts. There are no outdoor photographs of groups of people dating from 1840, because the lenses invented by Joseph Petzval, which were to make such portraits possible, were not available yet.”
El artículo de Constanze Mozart en la Wikipedia ha retirado la imagen y ha añadido la siguiente información:
There exists a print of a daguerreotype of a family group said to have been taken in Altötting in Bavaria in 1840, including the 78-year-old Constanze Mozart. The photograph has been known about by Mozart scholars for some years and its authenticity is much doubted.
[tags]constanze, mozart, fotografía[/tags]
