Mozart Week Salzburg: Winter‘s Classical Music Highlight

Come visit Salzburg around the time of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s birthday in January, and you’ll be in excellent company. The best conductors, orchestras and soloists worldwide gather in Salzburg to perform an eclectic selection of opera productions and concerts during the renowned Mozart Week festival. Greats such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Andràs Schiff or Marc Minkowski, and orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble or the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg are responsible for the festival's outstanding artistic reputation. The venues are spread all over the inner city of Salzburg, and include the Large Hall of the Mozarteum, the House for Mozart, and the venerable Large Festival Hall.
 
The atmosphere in Salzburg during that time could not be more fitting. For a few weeks after Christmas and New Year, the crowd of tourists diminishes, and a magical stillness settles over Salzburg. With its snow-covered Baroque steeples, its cozy coffee-houses, quaint inns and gourmet restaurants as backdrop, you’ll find the city at its best during this one week in January, when both classical and contemporary pieces influenced by the genius loci resound in every street.