The Mozart:Forum was established in 2021 as a special interdisciplinary and interdepartmental institution. Since then, it has offered visitors an ambitious annual programme to meet and linger, to engage in scholarly debate and artistic presentations, to attend concerts and operas, readings and lectures, or even a festive event: it offers space for experiencing and understanding, research and experimentation, upholding tradition but also questioning it, and perhaps it can even be said to offer space for provocation - if one wants to do justice to the great composer himself, this eventuality should not be ignored! It is historically informed, artistically exposed, academically reflected, and fit for the 21st century. When the Mozarteum began in 1841, fifty years after the death of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, a remarkable story began. 180 years after the Mozarteum's beginnings, the Mozart:Forum of the Mozarteum University kicked off the 230th anniversary year of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart's death with an impressive programme.
Just in time for the composer's birthday on 27th January 2021, a second project was launched as Spot On MozART went online; this project of the Mozart:Forum is dedicated to Mozart's music in a unique way, in which the eye "listens in" and plays through visualisations that lead the viewer from the traditionally large cinema to the abstractions of digital light beams and spaces, from the large stage to the display of the smartphone.
The Mozart:Forum is an open space for everyone who is interested in the Mozart, a genius who still puzzles and fascinates us in the 21st century.
