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Musical Muse Mozart
iennese Mozart orchestra Danube” and the “Radetzky march”.
plays a singular atmosphere
in Vienna concerts with The pianist Rudolf Buchbinder was
international well-known singer performing a selection of
and soloist - all together in Mozart’s piano works,
magnificent historical costumes interspersed with readings from
and Perücken - and creates in of the composer’s letters.
Vienna largest and most famous
concert halls such as state There remain sites in Vienna that
opera, music association, and can claim to have been honoured
concert hall and yard castle. by Mozart’s living presence “in
these rooms”, “in this palace” or
In styles of “musical academies”, “in this church”. The one
then were called in Vienna obvious exception is St. Marx
concerts at present the Mozart’s, cemetery, where he is buried.
with the Viennese Mozart concerts
individual sentences from While still a child Mozart was
Symphonien and solo concerts in already mingling with the social
addition, Ouvertüren, airs and elite. In 1762, when Mozart was
Duette from operas specified, in just six years old, the “prodigy
each case particularly liked and from Salzburg” was already the
well-known pieces, which inspire talk of the town, and a
the public. With the presentation performance for the Habsburgs is
of the most beautiful pieces the arranged at Schönbrunn Palace -
bunch dynasty, the Viennese albeit with a little help from
Mozart concerts meet also the father Leopold, himself a
desires the bunch lover, since well-known musician in the
these are spoiled among other service of the Archbishop of
things with the world-famous Salzburg. The “family business”
Walzer “at the beautiful blue scored a big success: Mozart’s
playing in the Hall of Mirrors in
the imperial summer residence Even if Mozart did not always
delighted the “mother of the receive the acclaim that was his
nation” Empress Maria Theresa, due while he was alive, the
and she was even more charmed situation changed radically after
when the six-year-old, as the his death. “The Magic Flute”
story goes, jumped up on to her (1791) was soon seen to be an
lap after the performance. unsurpassed stage work, and his
many other compositions were
Six years later, in 1768, Mozart, increasingly acknowledged for the
a well travelled veteran although masterpieces they are. Prominent
still only 12 years old, met among the many sites dedicated to
Maria Theresa again on two the composer is the Mozart
separate occasions. At the Wiener Memorial in the Burggarten, which
Hofburg the Empress granted him a was erected in 1896. At the
two-hour audience; and at the Central Cemetery, Vienna’s
consecration of Waisenhaus Church largest burial ground, a further
attended by the Empress he Mozart memorial was erected in
conducted the Waisenhaus Mass 1891 in the section devoted to
which he had written specially prominent artists and politicians
for the occasion. Incidentally, next to other great composers
this commemorative mass is still such as Beethoven and Strauss.
performed every year on the date Also worth a look is the Mozart
of the church’s consecration Fountain - or Magic Flute
(December 8). Much later, in 1781 Fountain as it is often called —
to be precise, Mozart was even built in 1905 and featuring a
invited to spend Christmas Eve in bronze statue of the two main
the imperial apartments at the protagonists of the opera, the
Hofburg as a guest of Austria’s flute-playing Tamino in the
enlightened Emperor Joseph II. embrace of his beloved Pamina.
For those in need of consolation at the Café Mozart near the
and sustenance, the great Vienna State Opera.
musician can also be remembered
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