The Sound of Music: Relive the magic of Mozart at Salzburg’s beloved music festival

Music blows throughout the city of Salzburg, Austria, around the year like a breath of fresh air. You can sense this unique flair around you as the city gears up for their premier musical celebration at the world-leading Mozart festival, set to take classical music to a whole new level. World-renowned orchestras, conductors, and soloists flock to the world’s music capital to re-live the music and splendor of Mozart, drawing the attention of artists and audiences from around the world like a moth to a flame in wintry Salzburg.

Salzburg has its embedded place in art and tourism immortalized as the home to the greatest musical genius, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The city celebrates the maestro’s birthday with an internationally acclaimed concert series every year, clinging to its old-world charm in changing times. This year, the Mozart Week winter festival will run from 27th January to 6th February. The marvelous music fiesta belies its own moniker, for “Mozart week” that lasts ten grand days. When you visit, you will witness around 60 events from opera concerts, chamber music, recitals, films, to puppet theatre at a total of ten venues, with the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation taking the spotlight. In addition, world-renowned artists Sir Andras Schiff, Daniel Barenboim, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will be seen performing where you can hear the music of the violin or the piano that Mozart himself played being brought back to life during selected performances.  

As you experience some of the best Mozart classics, don’t miss retracing Mozart’s footsteps. Walk through “Mozart Residence”, his stately abode in Makartplatz Square, which is now a museum shedding light on the man and artist from many different perspectives. As you stroll through the middle-class apartment which was reconstructed to its best original resemblance after it was destroyed in World War II, you’ll discover items of daily life from the 18th century, including Mozart’s very own violin and clavichord that will personally take you back in time.