Operas, orchestral concerts, chamber music, performances by the world’s best soloists… From January 27th to February 5th, Salzburg celebrates Mozart Week, and if you’re a fan of the maestro, it’s an event not to be missed.
Salzburg is a musical city, and it has especially close ties to Mozart and his work. It was here, at number 9 in the Getreidegasse, that he was born on January 27th, 1756, a date that has been celebrated in style in the city since the bicentenary in1956. Year after year, the city’s Mozarteum Foundation hosts Mozart Week, a real treat for aficionados of the great composers work. The festival offers an additional incentive to travel to this pretty Alpine city, known and loved by many as the home of the von Trapp family in the Sound of Music.
Although tourists flock to Salzburg to follow in the footsteps of the von Trapps, the townsfolk are even more aware of their earlier musical son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and all around the city you’ll find places connected to the composer including the house where he was born and his later home in what was then Hannibalplatz (now Makartplatz 8). You’ll also find plenty of opportunities to hear his music – operas, concerts, chamber music – and never more so than during Mozart Week.
International musicians renowned for their interpretation of Mozart’s work, including big names such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Andras Schiff and Marc Minkowski, will come together at this festival, which will also be attended by orchestras of the calibre of the Vienna Philharmonic and Les Musiciens du Louvre from Grenoble, as well as other renowned ensembles such as the Hagen Quartet and the Artemis Quartet. The programme will feature the world class conductors Daniel Barenboim and Ivor Bolton, with the latter scheduled to round off the event on February 5 with a concert in which he leads the Mozarteum Orchestra.??
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