International Mozarteum Foundation
| International Mozarteum Foundation (ISM) |
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| legal form |
Association ( ZVR : 438729131) |
| founding | October 16, 1880 April 17, 1925 (Association) |
| founder | Constanze Mozart |
| Seat |
Salzburg 
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| precursor | Cathedral Music Association and Mozarteum (founded 1841) |
| purpose | Preservation and contemporary examination of Mozart's legacy |
| Chair | Johannes Honsig-Erlenburg (President) , Johannes Graf von Moÿ (Vice President) , Friedrich Urban (Vice President) |
| Managing directors | Tobias Debuch |
| Website | mozarteum.at |
The International Mozarteum Foundation (ISM) or Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg is a non-profit organization in the legal form of an association based in the Austrian city of Salzburg . The ISM deals with the person and the work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . With activities in the three core areas of concerts, Mozart museums and Mozart research, it wants to be the bridge between the preservation of tradition and contemporary culture. It organizes the Mozart Week and other concert series every year .
The International Mozarteum Foundation, which exists today, was founded on April 17, 1925. This goes back to the forerunner organization Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum founded on October 16, 1880 , which in turn has its roots in the “Dom-Musik-Verein und Mozarteum ” on April 22, 1841.
Foundation building
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The architect Richard Berndl from Munich designed the foundation building at Schwarzstraße 26 and - structurally connected to it - the Great Hall (Schwarzstraße 28) in the style of Munich's late historicism. The building complex was erected between 1911 and 1914 and officially opened on September 14, 1914.
The foundation building is both the legal and the actual seat of the International Mozarteum Foundation. The building houses the boardroom of the Presidium, the Bibliotheca Mozartiana (a specialist library for Mozart research), several offices of the foundation and classrooms that are used by the Mozarteum University . Last but not least, house No. 26 houses the Vienna Hall , which was designed as a concert hall and , together with the Great Hall in building No. 28, is one of Salzburg's most beautiful concert halls.
activities
Concerts
Since 1956 the association has organized the Mozart Week Festival , which takes place every year around the time of Mozart's birthday from the end of January to the beginning of February. On the occasion of the Mozart Year 2006, the “Dialoge” festival was added, in which contemporary artists from the fields of music , dance , literature and the visual arts deal with Mozart's life and work. In addition, from October to June there are seasonal concerts with a series of chamber music and cycles around the new “Propter Homines” organ, as well as with the Mozarteum Orchestra and the Camerata Salzburg .
Maintenance of the Mozart museums
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According to its statutes, the International Mozarteum Foundation takes care of the "worthy preservation of all Mozart memorial sites, in particular Mozart's birthplace with the Mozart Museum, Mozart's house on Makartplatz and the Magic Flute House in the bastion garden of the Mozarteum". In Mozart's birthplace and in the Mozart residence, the foundation preserves an authentic and lively picture of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on over 800 m².
Mozart's birth place
In Mozart's birthplace at Getreidegasse 9, the visitor learns on three floors details about Mozart's living conditions, in particular about his youth, his friends and patrons, his relationship with his family members and his passion for the opera. You can also see his children's violin, mementos from his property and the most famous family portraits. The exhibition area “Mozart: Myth and Adoration” deals with his time in Vienna, his musical successes, his living conditions and his death. Other rooms are dedicated to the administration of his musical estate by his widow and two sons as well as to the beginning of the Mozart cult. Mozart's operatic works and his “everyday life as a child prodigy” complete the picture of Mozart presented there.
Mozart's house
The Tanzmeisterhaus on Makartplatz , in which the Mozart family lived from 1773, was two-thirds destroyed in a bomb attack in World War II, the area with the Tanzmeistersaal was preserved. As a result, an office building was built by an insurance company. After the International Mozarteum Foundation had acquired the entire property, the office building was demolished and the Tanzmeisterhaus was rebuilt true to detail according to the original plans and opened in 1996. In the Mozart House Museum, individual family members as well as Mozart's compositional work during his Salzburg years and the social environment are portrayed for the visitors. Particular attractions are Mozart's original fortepiano and the well-known Mozart family portrait.
Magic flute house
A small promenade garden is connected to the break foyer of the large hall on the back of the building towards the Mirabellgarten . Today the Magic Flute House stands in it , which was originally located in Vienna and later stood on the Salzburg Kapuzinerberg . Allegedly Mozart composed his opera Die Zauberflöte in it (at least in part) .
science
The autograph collection , which can be viewed as part of an exclusive guided tour, contains around 190 original letters from Mozart, around 370 letters from his father and over 100 autograph manuscripts by Mozart, mostly musical sketches and drafts, but also some original scores. The Bibliotheca Mozartiana has approximately 35,000 titles, the largest Mozart library in the world. The historical-critical complete edition of the New Mozart Edition (NMA) , which has been worked on since 1954, was completed in June 2007. As a continuation, a digital Mozart edition will be created, which will make the text of the NMA and thus all Mozart scores freely accessible on the Internet and will be gradually updated.
The Mozart sound and film collection comprises around 22,000 audio tracks and 3,000 video productions (film documentaries, fiction and television films about Mozart and recorded opera productions). The most recent additions in 2007 were an autograph sheet with the variations on “Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman” and in 2010 Mozart's partial copy of a symphony movement by Johann Michael Haydn . In March 2012 a previously unknown piano piece was discovered by Mozart.
Youth work
The Mozarteum Foundation's children and youth program focuses on experiencing music as well as conveying Mozart's thoughts and fantasy. This program has existed since 2008 and has been called "Klangkarton" since 2012.
organization
Operational structure
The International Mozarteum Foundation is a self-financed non-profit organization headed by the Board of Trustees. The ordinary members of the Board of Trustees are appointed by "Mozart Day" for three years each. The board of trustees elects a president, two vice-presidents and three other members of the executive committee from among its members. The Presidium determines the strategic direction, takes care of business and represents the Mozarteum Foundation externally. The Board of Trustees also elects a chairman and two deputies and monitors and advises the Presidium.
A total of around 100 employees are employed at ISM in the areas of administration, artistic operations office, marketing / PR / sponsoring, properties, museums, science as well as in the areas of hall maintenance, ticket sales, program sales, cloakroom and museum supervision.
management
- president
- 1910–1914: Franz Stibral
- 1915–1922: Julius Sylvester
- 1922–1924: Friedrich Gehmacher
- 1924–1925: Rudolf Hassak
- 1926–1929: Franz Höfenmayer
- 1929–1933: Rudolf Ramek
- 1934–1935: Edwin Schurich
- 1935–1938: Franz Schneiderhahn
- 1938–1944: the office remains vacant
- 1944–1945: Alfred Heidl (provisional managing director)
- 1945: Heinrich Puthon
- July 1945 – November 1950: the post remains vacant
- 1950–1955: Christian Bösmüller
- 1955–1963: Bruno Hantsch
- 1963–1975: Friedrich Gehmacher
- 1975–1988: Richard Spängler
- 1988–2006: Friedrich Gehmacher
- since 2006: Johannes Honsig-Erlenburg
- Artistic Director
- until 2002: Josef Tichý
- 2002–2012: Stephan Pauly
- 2012 – March 2016: Matthias Schulz
- April 2016 – February 2018: Maren Hofmeister
- 2019-2023: Rolando Villazón is characterized as director for the Mozart Week in charge
- Managing directors
- 1999–2004: Wieland Lafferentz
- 2004–2012: Stephan Pauly
- 2012–2016: Matthias Schulz
- since March 2016: Tobias Debuch
photos
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Mozarteum, postcard from around 1935
Mozarteum, Schwarzstraße 28 (Great Hall)
Great Hall
Main building including the presidium, library and Viennese hall
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c History of the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg mozarteum.at
- ↑ a b c d e f Verein Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, ZVR number 438729131. Extract from the Central Register of Associations , queried on June 8, 2015.
- ^ The building of the Mozarteum Foundation mozarteum.at
- ^ Statutes of the International Mozarteum Foundation , version from March 2016 (PDF), p. 3 (§ 2 No. 3 c).
- ↑ Bibliotheca Mozartiana mozarteum.at
- ↑ Maren Hofmeister leaves the Mozarteum Foundation in spring 2018 derstandard.at, April 28, 2017, accessed on May 26, 2017.
- ↑ Rolando Villazón is the new director of the Mozart Week Press release of the International Mozarteum Foundation