Tenducci, Giusto Ferdinando (b. Siena, c.1735; d. Genoa, 1790). A castrato who spent most of his working life in England (including at London's King's Theatre), Scotland and Ireland, Tenducci is reputed to have had a beautiful, often-imitated voice, praised by Charles Burney among others. He had particular success as Arbaces in Thomas Arne's Artaxerxes (London, 1762). Wolfgang and Leopold Mozart met Tenducci in London (1764) during their three-and-a-half-year grand tour of northern Europe. Crossing paths again in 1778 in Paris, Mozart wrote Tenducci an aria with concertante piano and winds, KAnh.3/315b (now lost).

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Teyber (Deiber, Taiber, Tauber. Täuber, Tayber, Teiber, Teuber) family. Austrian family of musicians, with all or most of whom Mozart was personally acquainted from 1773. The principal members of the family were: Matthäus Teyber (b. c.1711; d. Vienna, 6 Sept. 1785), violinist and court musician in Vienna; his wife Therese, née Ried[e]l; and their talented musician children: the soprano Elisabeth (b. c.16 Sept. 1746; d. 9 May 1816) who after successful operatic appearances in Vienna in the 1760s made her career mainly in Italy; the organist and composer Anton (b. c.8 Sept. 1756; d. 18 Nov. 1822) who toured with Elisabeth before working in Vienna (from 1781) and at the Dresden Hofkapelle (1787–91 – in his letters of 12 Mar. 1783 and 16 Apr. 1789 Mozart mentions having made music with him); and the composer, organist, bass singer and conductor Franz (b. c.25 Aug. 1758; d. 21/2 Oct. 1810).