Mozart Residence

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.

23 January – 22 February 2025

One of Germany’s best-known contemporary artists, Jonathan Meese, born in 1970 in Tokyo, has a deep affinity for classical music. Now working in his studio in Berlin, Meese exhibits his expressive and unique works in prestigious international galleries. He also presents retrospectives in museums and designs sets for theatres and opera houses. His main theme? The freedom of art. Yet, the virtuosic worlds of sonnets, cantatas, and oratorios are not foreign to Meese. His eclectic connection between classical music and his art has long been seen as unique among collectors. Who is the greatest book collector in Germany? You may have guessed – probably Jonathan Meese. We asked him to draw some composers, several of whom will be featured during Mozart Week. The result is a remarkable series of protagonists, including Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, and Georg Friederich Händel. Meese could probably give lectures on many composers. Each piece is unique, yet they give the impression that the composers understand and communicate with one another – as if they were all unified by a world of silver ice. How does Meese create this uniqueness? Perhaps by never ceasing to dream.

Courtesy Jonathan Meese und Galerie Krinzinger Wien

Special exhibition in the Mozart Residence from 18 January – 21 April 2025

Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929 – 2016) had a special relationship to Salzburg. The Mozart Museums have dedicated an exhibition to this key figure in musical history, highlighting Harnoncourt’s work in the city on the Salzach between 1980 and 2015. In a creative context comprising the International Mozarteum Foundation, the Salzburg Festival and the Mozarteum University, an oeuvre is revealed, that in many respects sheds fascinating light on the repertoire of early music, Mozart’s oeuvre and a new understanding of musical practice. The exhibition is curated in collaboration with the Nikolaus Harnoncourt Center at the Bruckner University Linz. On display are original scores, letters, stage costumes, memorabilia from the Harnoncourt estate and historical media recordings. Audio samples and podcasts allow visitors to immerse themselves directly in Harnoncourt’s world of sound and thought.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg is a long and multifaceted story. After 20 years of work with the Concentus Musicus, Harnoncourt was brought by Rector Paul Schilhawsky to the Mozarteum in Salzburg to accept a newly created professorship in Early Music Performance Practice, a position he would hold from 1973 to 1992. The Harnoncourt family relocated to Attergau. In 1980, he made his debut at Mozart Week and as a conductor in Austria with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. This marked the beginning of a decades-long collaboration. After Karajan’s era, Harnoncourt appeared at the Salzburg Festival in 1992 with Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. His first staged production, Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, directed by Jürgen Flimm, followed in the next year. Numerous groundbreaking performances were to follow. For artistic reasons, Harnoncourt retired from the Festival in 1995, yet returned in 2002. In 2000, he became an honorary member of the International Mozarteum Foundation.  As Artist in Residence in Mozart Year 2006, he gave a riveting ceremonial address. In 2008, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Mozarteum University. In 2011, he received the Golden Mozart Medal from the International Mozarteum Foundation. His last concert also took place in Salzburg on July 22, 2015: once again it was Beethoven’s Missa solemnis.

The Mozart Audio-Visual Collection, opened in 1991, is the largest specialized archive of sound and film recordings relating to Mozart’s life and works. 40,000 sound titles (the earliest dates from 1889) and 4,000 video productions can be played on site. Some musical works are available in more than 300 different interpretations. Another 16,000 Mozart recordings can be found also 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 open to the public free of charge during opening hours.
Film screenings for groups are available upon prior appointment.

Opening hours:
Monday, Tuesday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wednesday and Thursday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Note: closed 23 December 2024 to 12 January 2025

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

The ‘Magic Flute House’, where Mozart is said to have composed parts of The Magic Flute while living in Vienna, was located in the so-called Bastion Garden of the Mozarteum since the 1950s. This garden is accessible only via the main building of the Mozarteum Foundation.

According to some sources, Mozart wrote part of his most famous work, The Magic Flute, in this garden cottage. Emanuel Schikaneder, Mozart’s friend who wrote the text of The Magic Flute, is said to have 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 auf der Wieden in Vienna. After the sale of the Freihaustheater, on whose grounds the little house stood, its owner, Prince Starhemberg, sold the Magic Flute House to the International Mozarteum Foundation in 1873. For the first Salzburg Music Festival in 1877, the little house was ceremoniously transferred from Vienna to Salzburg. At that time, the Mozarteum Foundation erected it on the Kapuzinerberg, in a prominent location 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 was maintained until World War II. After the war, the Magic Flute House fell into oblivion 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, at events in the Mozarteum’s Great Hall and on request during guided tours.

Following urgently needed restoration work in the workshops of the Salzburger Freilichtmuseum, the Magic Flute House has arrived at its final location in the courtyard of the Mozart Residence. A tour of the Magic Flute House is possible as part of a visit to the museum.