Mozart year

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So-called Mozart years have been celebrated since the 19th century - especially in Austria and Germany - on all round commemorative years of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .

In particular, these have been the following years so far:

  • 1856, 1956 and 2006 (the years marking the 100th, 200th and 250th anniversary of Mozart's birthday on January 27, 1756);
  • 1891, 1941 and 1991 (the years marking the 100th, 150th and 200th anniversary of Mozart's death on December 5, 1791).

Mozart year 1991

In the Mozart year 1991 , several hundred concerts took place in Salzburg and Vienna alone and various research projects were carried out: among other things, on Mozart's environment, his first teachers (see also Bach's sons ) and the relationship to the dominant father Leopold Mozart ; also on the image of the world's most famous composer then and now, to examine the skull attributed to him and his relatives buried in Salzburg.

Mozart year 2006

In the Mozart year 2006 there were several thousand events in Germany and Austria. In some places, the fear was even expressed that oversaturation could occur - but this hardly happened.

Numerous biographies appeared , some with new insights, among which the historian Brigitte Hamann stands out. She occupies u. a. that the “ child prodigy ” also needed an intensive apprenticeship and that it (or the sister Nannerl and the father) initially became known more for playing the piano than for early composing . Some partially open medical questions were also clarified - e.g. B. on the smallpox disease in Prague and the presumably permanent distortions in Mozart's face, which are likely to have reinforced his sensitive, extravagant nature. The question of whether the skull that was exhumed from the shaft grave at Sankt Marxer Friedhof in Vienna at the time is his remains, however, in view of incorrectly assigned relatives in the Salzburg family grave. Numerous events (and research on family history) also take place in Augsburg , the birthplace of father Leopold Mozart.

On the occasion of the Mozart Year 2006, the federal state of Salzburg donated the Salzburg Music Prize as a highly endowed composition prize.

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