Mozart's apartment
The Mozart apartment is located in the Camesinahaus at Domgasse 5 in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt , not far from St. Stephen's Cathedral . The only Viennese apartment of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , who lived here from late September 1784 to late April 1787, is on the first floor .
history
The house, built in the 17th century, was originally two-story and had the entrance at Schulerstraße 8 (at that time: Große Schulerstraße, City No. 845 ). When Mozart rented here in 1784, the building had already been structurally altered by the owner Andrea Simone Carove in 1716. Mozart rented the apartment from the Camesina family , who had owned the house since 1720, which is why it was also known as the "Camesinahaus".
Mozart's rooms were opened in 1941 on the 150th anniversary of Mozart's death by the National Socialists as part of the “Mozart Week of the German Empire”, an event with which Mozart - in contrast to his polyglot life - was to be appropriated as a typically German composer. Since 1945, the operation of the showrooms has been the responsibility of the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna . Since the privately owned building did not appear attractive from the outside, the number of visitors to the so-called “Figaro House” remained modest at around 80,000 people per year, although the location appeared attractive due to its short distance from St. Stephen's Cathedral .
Adaptation as a Viennese "Mozart Center"
With a view to the Mozart year 2006, Wien Holding , owned by the City of Vienna, undertook a fundamental renovation of the premises through the Mozarthaus Vienna Errichtungs- und Betriebs-GmbH , which it founded . After complete renovation, information areas on the life and work of the composer were created in parts of the building as well as in expanded basement floors, with a focus on his time in Vienna; the historic Mozart apartment, which Mozart and his family lived in from the end of September 1784 to the end of April 1787, is still under the care of the Vienna Museum and was included in the overall concept.
These rooms, which are located on the first floor, are the only Viennese apartment of Mozart that has been preserved. It consists of four rooms, two cabinets and a kitchen. In the two and a half years that Mozart spent here, central works such as "Le Nozze di Figaro" were created. Due to the very poor facts - there are no original furnishings - it is more up to the visitor to imagine Mozart's life and work in these rooms.
In addition to the living rooms, information about Mozart is presented on two floors in the form of audiovisual installations; the exhibits themselves are not originals, but rather a hodgepodge of replicas that have little to do with Mozart himself but are assigned to his time. There is a museum shop and a vending machine café on the ground floor. The frequency was around 203,000 visitors in 2006 and around 160,000 in 2015. The new Bösendorfer hall has also been located here since October 2010 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ history of the house mozarthausvienna.at
- ↑ Bösendorfer Hall mozarthausvienna.at
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 29.5 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 29.6" E