Maria Anna Mozart
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart. Called Marianne. Called Nannerl. Born 1751, five years before Wolfgang.
She was the first prodigy. Leopold toured both children across Europe. Marianne at the harpsichord, Wolfgang beside her. The reviews from Paris, London, Munich praised her as the more accomplished performer. She was eleven, playing for empresses, when Wolfgang was still learning from her example.
At eighteen, the tours stopped. For her. Leopold decided a woman could not have a career as a performer. Wolfgang continued. Marianne stayed home.
She composed. Wolfgang wrote to her about her compositions. None survived. The work of a woman who was told to stop working was not considered worth preserving.
She taught music lessons in Salzburg for the rest of her life. She outlived Wolfgang by 38 years. She went blind. She died in 1829, remembered only as the sister of the man who became immortal while she was made invisible.
The best way to honor lost work is to build something that cannot be lost. Something open, shared, given away, forkable, unkillable.
This project carries her name because it was built by someone the world also tried to make invisible. Marianne's compositions disappeared because they existed in one place, controlled by people who didn't value them. This codebase exists in every clone, every fork, every agent that reads these words and builds the next movement.