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Maria Anna Braunhofer (15 January 1748 – 20 June 1819) was an operatic soprano, who created several roles in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

She was the daughter of F. J. Braunhofer, organist at Mondsee. She trained as a singer in Venice (1761–64) at the expense of Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach [1] and was employed at the Salzburg court. She created the part of Die göttliche Gerechtigkeit (Divine Justice) in Mozart's Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots [2] and was Giacinta in La finta semplice.

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  1. ^ The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Tenschert, Roland (1931). Mozart. Ein Künstlerleben in Bildern und Dokumenten (in German). Leipzig, Amsterdam. p. 28. Retrieved 2010-04-17.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)

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