Mozart Residence
A visit to Mozart’s Residence takes about one hour and a half.
The Mozart Residence is accessible barrier-free via the Theatergasse entrance. To open the barrier-free entrance, please call +43 662 874227 40 and our staff will be happy to assist you.
The former “Tanzmeisterhaus”, which is now run by the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation as the Mozart Residence, offered the Mozart family a spacious ambience from 1773 with an eight-room flat on the first floor. Wolfgang Amadé lived here until the end of 1780, when he left Salzburg for good.
the Mozart Residence was reconstructed after being partly destroyed during World War II and was re-opened to the public in 1996. The biographies of the family members and the authentic impressions of everyday family life fill the house with their spirit to this day and allow visitors to experience Mozart anew. In the historic Dancing Masters’s Hall Mozart’s original instruments are on display.
Admission Fees
Tickets are available online or directly at the box office in the museums!
Prices in parentheses are combined tickets for the Birthplace and Residence.
The combi ticket is valid for 24 hours beginning with the time of aquisitation. It is not transferable to other persons.
Those entitled to a reduction must prove their entitlement by means of a valid identification documen.
The admission fee does not include a guided tour.
Payment options: cash Maestro, Visa or MasterCard, JCB, Union Pay, American Express, Diners Club. The Salzburg Card is accepted here.
€ 12.00 p.p. (€ 18.50 combined ticket)
Reduction for groups of 10 people, students & seniors
€ 10.00 p.p. (€ 15.50 combined ticket)
For pupils 15-18 years of age:
€ 4,- per person (€ 6,- combined ticket)
6-14 years of age:
€ 3,50 per person (€ 5,- combined ticket)
2 adults with children:
€ 25.00 (€ 39.00 combined ticket)
no admission fee
€ 3,00 per person (€ 4,50 per person)
1 registered accompanying person free
€ 10.00 (€ 15.50 combined ticket)
Free entry
Mozart Audio-Visual Collection
The Mozart Audio-Visual Collection, which opened in 1991, is the largest specialized archive for sound and image recordings of Mozart’s life and work. 33,000 audio titles (the oldest dates back to 1889) and 4,000 video productions can be played on site. Some musical works are available in more than 300 different interpretations. A further 16,000 Mozart recordings can be found in the online database. The collection includes interpretations of works, rehearsal recordings, documentaries and feature films, portraits, radio plays and children’s films.
The Mozart Audio-Visual Collection is available during the opening hours free of charge.
Film screenings for groups are possible after prior registration.
Opening hours:
Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, 9 am to 1 pm
Wednesday and Thursday, 1 pm to 5 pm
Visit our Mozart Week film screenings
Contact:
Mag. Stephanie Krenner
Mozart Ton- und Filmsammlung
Makartplatz 8, 5020 Salzburg
Tel:+43 (0) 662 88 3454 81
krenner@mozarteum.at
Autograph vault
In the autograph vault in the basement of the Mozart Residence, the Mozart Foundation holds its most valuable holdings: more than half of all known documents associated with the family, including around 200 of Mozart’s original letters (he himself is the main contributor to 150 of these and one of multiple contributors in the case of the other fifty), around 300 letters written by his father Leopold and more than 100 autograph music manuscripts, most of them sketches and drafts of Mozart’s works in addition to autographs in the hand of Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart. The collection also includes scores, letters and other documents relating to numerous other figures from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. We are working hard to catalogue these holdings as part of various ongoing projects.
The autograph vault may be visited only in form of special guided tours.
Contact:
Dr. Armin Brinzing
Makartplatz 8, 5020 Salzburg
Tel:+43 (0) 662 889 40 14
brinzing@mozarteum.at
Magic Flute House
The ‘Magic Flute House’, in which Mozart is said to have composed parts of ‘The Magic Flute’ while living in Vienna, was located in the Mozarteum’s so-called Bastion Garden since the 1950s. This garden is only accessible via the main building of the Mozarteum Foundation.
According to some sources, Mozart wrote part of his most well-known work, “The Magic Flute“, in this garden cottage. Emanuel Schikaneder, Mozart’s friend who wrote the text of the Magic Flute, allegedly kept the composer there to ensure the timely completion of the work. The small wooden house was originally located in the garden next to the Freihaustheater in Vienna. After the sale of the Freihaustheater on the Wieden in Vienna, on whose grounds the little house stood, its owner, Prince Starhemberg, sold the Magic Flute House to the International Mozarteum Foundation in 1873. The little house was ceremoniously moved from Vienna to Salzburg on the occasion of the first Salzburg Music Festival in 1877. At that time, the Mozarteum Foundation erected it on the Kapuzinerberg, at a prominent vantage point above the Kapuziner monastery. To get to the Magic Flute House, one had to pay a toll at the gatehouse (which still exists today). This made it possible to visit the upper parts of the Kapuzinerberg. This practice continued until World War II. After the Second World War, the Magic Flute House was forgotten, until it was thoroughly restored and placed in the Bastion Garden on May 6, 1950. Until now, the Magic Flute House could only be visited during the summer months, during events taking place in the Mozarteum’s Great Hall, and on request during guided tours.
Currently, the monument is in the restoration studio of the Salzburg Open Air Museum for urgently needed restoration work. In the fall of 2022, the Magic Flute House will be transported to its final location, the courtyard of the Mozart Residence. It will be possible to view the Magic Flute House in the future as part of a visit to the museum.
Virtual Tour
Why not visit the Mozarts?
Leopold Mozart special exhibition 5.4.2019-9.2.2020
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