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"May the name of his father be his epitaph, as his veneration for him was the essence of his life." -Epitaph on Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart's Tombstone

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, known awkwardly to the Viennese musical world as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jr., and even more awkwardly to his family as Wowi, was a composer and piano teacher who spent much of his career in Galicia. He was largely championed by Josephine de Baroni-Cavalcabò, with whom he may have had a long-term affair. His often melancholy music and sense of his place in history relative to that of his father make him out to be a somewhat gloomy person, although to be fair, he had a lot to live up to from a young age.

This journal is based loosely on the fictional depictions of F.X.W. in the novels Ein Mozart in Galizien (by Dieter Kühn) and Le dernier des Mozart (by Jacques Tournier), as well as various other novels and short stories about the Mozart family. Unlike F.X.W., I am neither German-speaking (although I can read it decently) nor a composer, and make no claim to any real or fictional depictions of F.X.W. Mozart, his family, or his friends and colleagues. I am simply a bored musicology student who thinks the Mozart family would get along rather well with the notion of blogging.