The career city

Mozart fans who travel to Vienna from afar are usually more than pleasantly surprised to find that Vienna not only still has Mozart's largest and most beautiful apartment to visit, but that there is also a wonderfully curated multimedia museum to go with it - exciting for kids, too! Very worth seeing and more than centrally located near St. Stephen's Cathedral, where, by the way, he married his Constanze.

Mozart's Viennese apartments - whether in what was then a suburb or in the city - have occupied many researchers, since parts of his extensive oeuvre were created in there. You can still find commemorative plaques on some of the buildings, some have been demolished. By the way, his monument can be found in the Burggarten - with a floral clef. The "Magic Flute Fountain" is in the 4th district. In addition there are numerous paths and alleys in Vienna named after the opera characters Tamino, Sarastro or Papageno.

The first public concert of the child prodigy Wolfgang Amadé, who had come from Salzburg, took place in this palace in 1762 - together with his sister Nannerl, who was at least as talented as her brother, only unfortunately a girl and thus less supported by her father.

At the age of six, little Wolferl was a guest in the Hall of Mirrors of monarch Maria Theresa, played music and delighted the courtly society for the first time. Six years later, he was granted an audience at the Hofburg - for a whole two hours. And in 1781 he was even allowed to spend Christmas Eve in the imperial apartments with the heir to the throne, Joseph II. Incidentally, the musical contest “Mozart-Salieri” took place at the Orangery in Schönbrunn in 1786.

Mozart died in 1791 at the age of only 35 and was consecrated where he had also married: In St. Stephen's Cathedral. The central cemetery did not exist at that time, he was buried in a pauper's grave at the St. Marx cemetery - but in a shaft grave, so that one can no longer say with certainty at what level he came to lie.