THE BUILDING THAT HOUSES THE MOZARTEUM FOUNDATION

Richard Berndl, an architect from Munich, designed the building for the Mozarteum Foundation at Schwarzstrasse, No. 26, in a late historic style typical of Munich.  The building was constructed from 1911 to 1914 and ceremoniously opened on 14 September 1914.  The offices of the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation are located here, as well as the two concert halls, the Grosser Saal (Great Hall) and the Wiener Saal – two of Salzburg’s most beautiful concert halls – the Bibliotheca Mozartiana and several classrooms which are used by the Mozarteum University.
On the façade of the building is an inscription which was created by the artist Sylvie Fleury on the occasion of the first Dialoge Festival in 2005.  It is a phrase in Mozart’s handwriting typical of Mozart and also of Fleury’s œuvre, illuminated by neon light and repetitively reading, “I would like to have everything that is good, genuine and beautiful!”

(c) Chrisian Schneider