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Juan Diego Flórez
Juan Diego Florez is the finest bel canto tenor of his generation and one of the most consistently returning artists at Mozartwoche and the Salzburg Festival. His connection to Salzburg goes beyond the main summer…
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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Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews played Maria von Trapp in Robert Wise's 1965 film The Sound of Music, shot largely on location in and around Salzburg. More than any other single event, that performance is responsible for Salzburg's…
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Karl Böhm
Karl Bohm was the conductor Richard Strauss trusted most, and one of the artists most completely identified with the Salzburg Festival across four decades. He died in Salzburg in 1981. His recordings with the Vienna…
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Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer was born in Bad Aussee, in the Salzkammergut just east of Salzburg. He became one of the most celebrated Austrian actors of his generation, and for six years stood at the centre of the Salzburg…
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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein arrived at the Salzburg Festival in 1959 as a 40-year-old American who needed to prove himself to European audiences. He left as someone who helped those same audiences rediscover Mahler, the composer…
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Leopold Kohr
Born in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, the same village where Joseph Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber first performed Stille Nacht, Leopold Kohr spent his life arguing that the root cause of social, political, and economic…
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Leopold Mozart
Court musician, Vice Kapellmeister, and Wolfgang's first teacher. Forty-four years in Salzburg's service. Author of the Versuch einer grundlichen Violinschule (1756), a landmark violin method that outlasted him. Buried…
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Lilli Lehmann
Lilli Lehmann built the Salzburg Festival before it existed. From 1901, she organised the annual Salzburg Mozart Week, performing lead roles herself, directing rehearsals, and establishing the tradition of Salzburg as…
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Lorenz Hagenauer
The Mozart family's landlord, banker, and closest family friend. Lorenz Hagenauer owned Getreidegasse 9 and used his merchant network to finance the tours that made the prodigy's reputation. Without him, the story…
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Lorenzo da Ponte
Lorenzo da Ponte wrote the words to Mozart's three supreme Italian operas. He never lived in Salzburg, but in his memoirs he called Mozart "the miracle that God let be born in Salzburg." No phrase better captures the…
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Lotte Lehmann
Lotte Lehmann performed at the Salzburg Festival for twelve seasons, from 1926 to 1937, in roles that Richard Strauss shaped around her voice. When the Nazis arrived in 1938, she left and never returned. She carried…
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Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti performed at the Salzburg Festival four times between 1976 and 1985, including a Mozartean title role in Idomeneo that showed a classical range beyond his signature Italian repertoire. He is the tenor…