Guided tour of the new foyer of the Mozarteum Foundation
For the work focus on Salzburg music history, Christoph Großpietsch (Digital Mozart Edition) and Linus Klumpner (Director of the Mozart Museums) will give a guided tour of the newly constructed premises of the Mozarteum building in Schwarzstraße, concluding with a short visit to the Magic Flute House.
In October 2022, together with the renovated Great Hall in Schwarzstraße, which is still awaiting extensive restoration, the two newly constructed foyers in the middle wing of the main building of the Mozarteum Foundation were also opened: The unique glass and steel construction between the existing listed parts of the Mozarteum building forms the Great Foyer on the first floor, which opens up the concert building via a glass bridge to the Bastion Garden, and the City Foyer, which creates an entrance to the Bastion Garden on the ground floor.
According to the story, W. A. Mozart was held by librettist Emanuel Schikaneder in what was later called the 'Magic Flute House', a wooden hut formerly in Vienna's Freihaus, so that he would have no excuse not to complete the Singspiel Die Zauberflöte. After being donated to the International Mozart Foundation, the little house was brought to Salzburg by rail in 1873. After stops on the Kapuzinerberg and in the Bastion Garden, it has been disassembled and freshly restored in the inner courtyard of the Mozart Residence since autumn 2022, where it is expected to be open to visitors to the museum from May 2023.
