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Abbé Joseph Bullinger
Abbe Joseph Bullinger was a Jesuit priest in Salzburg and Leopold Mozart's most trusted confidant. Leopold wrote to him in tones he used with almost no one else. Their correspondence is one of the most candid documents…
THE LOCALS
People who shaped Salzburg
Artists, composers, guides, hoteliers, chefs, makers, and founders with a real connection to the city.
204Salzburg lives and work
The origins map
Where Salzburg's people came from
A magnet more than a cradle: most of these figures were born elsewhere and came to Salzburg. Every pin is a birthplace.
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Adalbert Stifter
Adalbert Stifter walked into the Salzkammergut for the first time in 1829 and never fully left. The landscape around Bad Ischl and the alpine lakes became the world his fiction inhabits. If you want to understand why…
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Agathe von Trapp
Agathe von Trapp was the eldest of the seven children who became The Sound of Music, and the one who eventually wrote the most honest account of what life at Villa Trapp in Aigen was actually like. She lived to 97 and…
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Albert Einstein
Salzburg was where the world first heard Einstein speak. In September 1909, a 30-year-old patent clerk stood up before an audience of Europe's leading scientists and delivered his first major public lecture on…
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Alexander Moissi
Alexander Moissi was the first man to stand on Domplatz and cry out "Jedermann!" in August 1920, inaugurating both a play and a festival that has defined Salzburg ever since. No other actor's single performance had…
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Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt spent six months in Salzburg in 1797 and 1798, climbing the Kapuzinerberg and setting up experiments on the ridge. The Humboldtterrasse viewpoint is named in his memory, making him one of the…
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Alfred Roller
One of the five co-founders of the Salzburg Festival (1920), alongside Hofmannsthal, Reinhardt, Strauss, and Schalk. Alfred Roller was a founding member of the Vienna Secession and a close collaborator of Gustav Mahler…
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Alma Mahler
Alma Mahler was told to stop composing when she married Gustav Mahler in 1902. She obeyed, and became instead the living centre of European modernism, passing through marriages and affairs that spanned the greatest…
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Aloysia Weber
Mozart's first love. Soprano. The woman who said no to Wolfgang and chose her career instead. Her husband Joseph Lange painted the famous unfinished Mozart portrait. Younger sister Constanze married Mozart instead.…
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Anna Chromy
Anna Chromy was a Czech-German sculptor whose Cloak of Conscience, an empty hooded bronze mantle with no body inside, stands under the southern arch of Salzburg Cathedral. The Salzburg cast, titled Pietà and made in…
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Anna Netrebko
Anna Netrebko's 2005 Violetta in Willy Decker's La Traviata drew 1.5 million television viewers across Austria and Germany. No opera production had registered those numbers in years. It made the Salzburg Festival feel,…
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Annemarie Moser-Pröll
Annemarie Moser-Proll grew up in Kleinarl in the Pongau and became the greatest female alpine skier of her era, winning six World Cup overall titles before Olympic gold at Lake Placid in 1980. When she retired, she…