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Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum – International Mozart FoundationIn 1841, one year before the opening of the Mozart Memorial, members of the Mozart family and private donors founded the “Dom-Musik-Verein und Mozarteum” (“Dom-cathedral-music-society and Mozarteum”). The idea was to create a platform to maintain the tradition of music, Mozart and culture in Salzburg.
It is this foundation that maintains and runs the two museums in the Mozart birthplace and in his living place in the Tanzmeisterhaus, as well as a smaller third one in St. Gilgen am Wolfgangsee that is dedicated to Mozart’s mother and his sister Nannerl. Permanent work on the Mozart biographyThe foundation owns and develops the largest archive and library on Mozart, the “Bibliotheca Mozartiana”. It is based on the gift of Mozart’s two sons Franz Xaver and Carl Thomas and includes 18.000 volumes of letters, books, notations, manuscripts and other forms of written record dealing with Mozart. Many of them were written by the genius himself. Since 1991, the foundation also collects sound and film documents of interpretations.
In addition to that, the Foundation organises Mozart concerts and festivals, co-ordinates Mozart societies around the world and does a lot of work in education. If you are very interested in Mozart and his music, you should ask for a guided tour through the headquarter in Schwarzstraße. This will also include a brief visit to the “Zauberflötenhäuschen”, in which – at least according to the legend – Mozart wrote a fair portion of the “Magic Flute”. Mozart CDs that we recommend
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