Editing Leopold Mozart (section)

===Family life in Salzburg===
[[File:BoezlschiessenTargetMozartAndBaesle.PNG|thumb|''[[Bölzlschiessen]]'' target, Wolfgang and his cousin [[Maria Anna Thekla Mozart]], October 1777]]
Although Mozart is portrayed (notably by Halliwell 1998) as generally quite worried about money, the Mozart family evidently by 1773 felt prosperous enough to upgrade their living quarters. They left the home in the [[Getreidegasse]] where the children had been born and moved to rooms in the ''[[Tanzmeisterhaus Salzburg|Tanzmeisterhaus]]'' ("Dancing-Master's House"), which had been the home of the recently deceased dancing master Franz Karl Gottlieb Spöckner. As tenants of Spöckner's cousin and heir Maria Anna Raab, the Mozarts had eight rooms, including the quite large room that Spöckner had used for dancing lessons. This the Mozarts used for teaching, for domestic concerts, for storing keyboard instruments sold by Leopold, and for ''[[Bölzlschiessen]]'', a form of recreation in which family and their guests shot airguns at humorously designed paper targets.{{sfn|Halliwell|1998|p=202}}

Starting around this time, a major preoccupation was the lengthy and frustrating struggle to find a professional position for his son. His wife died in 1778 in Paris while accompanying Wolfgang on a job-hunting tour.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}