International Mozarteum Foundation
The Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg dealt with the life and work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart since 1880. Through initiatives in its core fields - concerts, Mozart museums and research – the Foundation forges a link between preserving traditions and contemporary culture.
Concerts and museums
"Mozart Week," held each year in January, adds a cultural accent to the international concert program. Renowned Mozart performers, orchestras and ensembles can be heard during the week of the festival. Contemporary artists from the fields of music, dance, literature and visual arts deal with Mozart's life and work during the "Dialogs" event. Seasonal concerts featuring the "Young Artists" cycle are offered from October to June.
The focus is on Mozart's legacy in Mozart's Birthplace and the Mozart Residence. Visitors are conducted through original rooms at Mozart's Birthplace displaying historic instruments, Mozart's violin and most of the portraits painted during his lifetime. The three exhibitions, "A Day in the Life of a Child Prodigy," "Mozart at the Theater" and "The Mozarts - a Family Introduces Itself" were designed by the architect and cartoonist, Thomas Wizany.
The Mozart Residence on Makart Square gives an authentic impression of everyday life in the 18th century. The biographies of the individual members of the Mozart family with all their joys, cares, passion and social activities fill the rooms with life.
Plenty of room for music
Most of the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg concerts as well as the Salzburg Festival's Mozart matinees and soloist concerts are held in the 800-seat "Large Hall." Its outstanding acoustics provide the perfect setting for soloists, chamber music ensembles and large orchestras, performing classical music or entertainment music programs. The smaller "Vienna Hall" is primarily a venue for chamber music concerts, offering seats for 200 visitors. Both concert halls – together with the infrastructure – can also be rented for events.
An academic preoccupation with Mozart
The autograph collection, whose extracts can only be viewed on exclusive tours, include nearly 190 original letters written by Mozart, 370 by his father and over 100 of Mozart's hand-written sketches, drafts and original scores. Boasting nearly 35,000 titles, the "Bibliotheca Mozartiana" is the most comprehensive Mozart library in the world. The historically critical complete version of the "New Mozart Edition (NMA)," started in 1954, was completed in June 2007. Work on a "Digital Mozart Edition," making the text of the NMA and thus all of Mozart's sheet music accessible via the Internet, is still in progress.
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