Mozarthaus Vienna

The Mozart House Vienna is located in the Domgasse 5 in the 1st district of Vienna Innere city, close to St. Stephen 's Basilica. Here is the only one still standing today Viennese apartment of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who lived here from 1784 to 1787.

History

The 17th- century house was originally two stories and had the entrance to the Schulerstraße 8 (then: Large Schuler Street, City No. 845). As Mozart einmietete 1784 here, the house was structurally altered by the then owner Andrea Simone Carove since 1716. Mozart rented the apartment of the family Camesina who owned the house since 1720, so it was also known under the name " Camesina house".

Mozart's rooms were opened in 1941 for the 150th anniversary of the death of Mozart by the Nazis as part of the " Mozart Week of the German Reich ", an event with which Mozart - should be recognized as typical German composer - in contrast to his polyglot life. Since 1945 the business of the show rooms was for the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna. Since the standing privately owned building appeared very attractive from the outside, remained visitor figures for the so-called " Figaro House " with about 80,000 persons per year modest, although the site appeared attractive because of its close proximity to St. Stephen's Cathedral.

In view of the Mozart Year 2006, it undertook the entity owned the City of Vienna Vienna Holding to renew the attraction, which was established by her Mozart House Vienna deployment and operational GmbH fundamentally. After a complete renovation, a center was built on the life and work of the composer in the entire building and in converted basements; the historical Mozart apartment, still under the care of the Wien Museum, was included.

On four floors now information about Mozart in combination with historical exhibits and audiovisual installations are presented. The ground floor café and shop in the basement of an EU co-financed event area. The frequency was 2006, around 203,000 visitors, in 2008 approximately 133,000 visitors. Since October 2010, this is the home of the new Bösendorfer Hall.