Mozart Residence

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Prices in parentheses are combined tickets for the Birthplace and Residence.

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‘Time Travel (Zeitreise)’ – an exciting exhibition project as part of the European Capital of Culture 2024 – makes a stop in the city of Mozart: The Salzkammergut, once a centre of tradition and a haven of lively inspiration for many artists, today is characterised by clichéd images as a backdrop for the tourism and leisure industry. The myth of Mozart, which is used as a Mozart myth, which attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors to Salzburg every year to Salzburg every year. In the ‘Time Travel’ project, contemporary photo artists comment on and interpret historical photographs from the Salzkammergut and from the archives of the Mozarteum Foundation, create a link between tradition and cliché to contemporary photographic art and open up new perspectives on the themes of tourism and Mozart between tradition, innovation, sustainable cultural work and marketing.

This exhibition was shown from May to August in Grundlsee and can now be seen in an adapted form in the Mozart Residence. Time Travel has been expanded for the show in Salzburg to include some remarkable works.

Zeitreise is a project in cooperation with the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl – Salzkammergut 2024.

Contemporary artists: Yukimi Akiba (JPN), Kim Boske (NL), Elisabeth Czihak (A), Tamas Dezsö (HUN), Pawel Jaszczuk (POL), Zhang Kechun (CHN), Patrick Lambertz (CH), Marco Lanza (IT), Stefanie Moshammer (A), Yvonne Oswald (A), Zuzana Pustaiová (SVK)
Historische Fotografen: Victor Angerer, Friedrich Ernst Brandt, Wilhelm Burger, Aimé Dupont, Alois Elsenwenger, Hans Gielge, Carl Hintner, Konrad Mautner, Michael Moser, Albert Rastl, Heinrich Schuhmann jun., Franz Xaver Setzer, Friedrich Simony, Karl Friedrich Würthle

From 06.09. – 31.12.24 in the Mozart Residence

Picture: Patrick Lambertz, The Divine Theatre 1, Mozart’s Birthplace, 2023 © Patrick Lambertz

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 on 11.-12. November and 23 December 2024 to 6 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.