Stiftung Mozarteum - Großer Saal
Grand historicist concert hall built as a shrine to Mozart, seating hundreds beneath acoustics prized since nineteen fourteen.
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This guide to the Grosser Saal at the Stiftung Mozarteum in Salzburg opens in a Vienna garden shed in seventeen ninety-one, where a dying, nearly broke Mozart raced to finish an opera by candlelight. It follows how that small wooden hut later made its way to Salzburg, and how the city spent more than a century turning its most famous son into a shrine, culminating in a hall designed by the Munich architect Richard Berndl and opened in September nineteen fourteen. You'll hear about the emperor who laid its foundation stone and the war breaking out just as the doors opened. Sit and listen for the organ behind you, installed in two thousand ten.
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