Salzburg Festival

Salzburg Festival

July-August

Although the city of Salzburg, Austria, did little to honor its most famous native son during his lifetime, it has been making up for the oversight ever since. The Salzburg Festival is so closely identified with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) that it is often referred to simply as the Mozart Festival . Although it features musical events by a wide variety of composers and performances by internationally celebrated musicians, conductors, singers and instrumentalists, the festival has always paid special homage to Mozart—especially so in 1991 during the Mozart bicentennial celebration.
The festival takes place at the end of July and through most of August at different venues throughout the city. Most of the operatic and large orchestral pieces are performed in the Festspielhaus, while other performances take place in the Landestheater. Chamber music concerts are usually given in the hall of the Mozarteum, and the Residenz is the scene for serenade concerts held by candlelight. Visits to Mozart's birthplace at Getreidegasse 9 are especially popular during the festival.

CONTACTS:
Salzburg Festival
Herbert von Karajan Platz 11
Postfach 140
Salzburg, A-5010 Austria
43-662-80455-00; fax: 43-662-80455-55
www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/Home/DASPROGRAMM/KARTE

SOURCES:
GdWrldFest-1985, p. 13
IntlThFolk-1979, p. 39
MusFestEurBrit-1980, p. 25
MusFestWrld-1963, p. 79

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