Austria's fourth largest city owes its fame to the child prodigy, Mozart, who was born and reared on the banks of the Salzach River. Stroll around the city and you soon find yourself on a tour of ...

Salzburg was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's home for the first 25 years of his brief 35-year life, and the city still hums with his precocious energy. Salzburg offers visitors plenty of opportunities to ...

Salzburg is forever smiling to the tunes of Mozart and “The Sound of Music.” Thanks to its charming old town, splendid Baroque churches, and one of Europe’s largest medieval fortresses, Salzburg feels ...

Here in Salzburg, an implausibly pretty city in the foothills of the Austrian Alps, musicians from all across the world are arriving for the world’s most prestigious music festival. Forget ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a petite 5' 4", but his shadow looms large over his city of birth, Salzburg, Austria. Tourism is Salzburg's biggest industry today, and Mozart is at the center of that ...

Each summer, the historic Austrian town of Salzburg comes to life during the Salzburg Festival — an event inaugurated in 1920 when Max Reinhardt directed the morality play "Jederman" in the city's ...

Throughout his life, Mozart had a problematic relationship with his home town of Salzburg. In 1771 at the age of 15, he entered the court of the newly-appointed Archbishop Colloredo and things augured ...

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It’s requiem time for the beloved Mozartkugeln as the Salzburg factory has completed its final order of the Austrian chocolates. The Grödig factory in southern Salzburg has been producing the Mozart ...

The wide-eyed 13-year-old child stares at the viewer from under a Baroque wig. At this tender age, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – usually just known as Mozart – was already a professional musician. Dressed ...