As A Fictional Character
Many authors have created fictional characters based on Maria Anna Mozart.
- Marianne was the subject of a 2001 "biography in poems," The Other Mozart by Sharon Chmielarz.
- Mozart’s Sister, a 2005 novel by Alison Bauld, follows Nannerl Mozart's life through marriage, children, widowhood, and death in conversations with her nephew Franz Xaver, Mozart’s younger son.
- Nancy Moser wrote Mozart's Sister: A Novel (2006).
- In La sorella di Mozart, a 2006 novel by Rita Charbonnier, Nannerl initially tells her life's story through a series of fictional letters to the Major Franz Armand d'Ippold, grows frustrated and debilitated by her father's refusal to acknowledge her ability to compose music, and eventually devotes her life to the promotion and study of her brother's music.
- The popular young adult author Carolyn Meyer wrote of Nannerl's life in her 2008 novel In Mozart's Shadow: His Sister's Story.
- Marianne and her family were noted in The 39 Clues series as members of the Cahill family branch, Janus.
- Marianne was the subject of Nannerl, la sœur de Mozart (Mozart's Sister), a 2010 French-language film from director René Féret. The film centers on the teenage years of Nannerl as she lives in the shadow of her famous younger brother as they travel throughout Europe performing for royalty. With the encouragement of the French Dauphin, Nannerl begins to find her own ways of challenging the established sexual and social order, though her rebellion is quickly crushed by those who inspired it.
- In his 2011 novel Mozart's Last Aria, Matt Rees has Nannerl investigating her brother's death.
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