Salzburg

First Impressions

Mirabell Garden

Drive in a fiacre / Fortress of Hohensalzburg

Drive in a fiacre, Fortress of Hohensalzburg

Mozart's Birthplace and House

Mozart Souvenirs

Hohenwerfen Castle / St. Wolfgang and the Schafberg / Dachstein Glacier

Hellbrunn Castle

Residence Palace

Salzburg by Night

St. Peter's Cemetery / Collegiate Church of St. Peter / Cathedral

Salzburg in Winter

Leopoldskron Palace and Landscape

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Date of Production: 2009-06-02

Playing Time: 00:55:40

Catalogue Number: 2.110517

UPC: 747313551750

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The Places

Mozart's father Leopold settled in Salzburg in 1737 and in 1744 entered the service of the city's ruling Prince-Archbishop as a violinist. The city underwent various changes of regime in the first years of the nineteenth century, but in 1825 Schubert could express his wonder at the fine churches and palaces of the place.

The Music

The music includes movements directly connected with Salzburg, compositions for distinguished local families, members of the Mozarts' social circle, and works resulting from his visit in 1777-78 to Mannheim. Other compositions come from the remarkable final decade of Mozart's life, when he was living in Vienna, culminating in the Lacrimosa from the unfinished Requiem of 1791, a movement that he is said to have tried to sing, with his friends, on his deathbed.