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Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt co-founded the Salzburg Festival and staged the first Jedermann on Domplatz in 1920, establishing the outdoor performance tradition that defines the Festival to this day. He owned Schloss Leopoldskron…
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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Michael Gaismair
During the German Peasants' War of 1525-1526, the largest popular uprising in European history before the French Revolution, Michael Gaismair led the Tyrolean and Salzburg peasant forces against Archbishop Matthäus…
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Michael Haydn
The musician Salzburg kept while the rest of the world watched Vienna. Michael Haydn arrived at the court in 1763, served as concertmaster and composer under two archbishops, took over Salzburg Cathedral's organist…
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Michael Pacher
One of the greatest artists of the late Gothic period, and a man who died in Salzburg. Michael Pacher's masterpiece, the St. Wolfgang Altarpiece (completed 1481), stands in the Pfarrkirche St. Wolfgang in the…
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Nannerl Mozart (Maria Anna Mozart)
Nannerl Mozart was the family's first prodigy. History spent two centuries forgetting that.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
The man who ended 1,200 years of ecclesiastical rule. Napoleon's armies occupied Salzburg in 1800 and again in 1809. The political consequences of the Napoleonic era were permanent: the 1803…
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt is the conductor who changed how the world hears Mozart and Bach. He built his ideas for twenty years while Herbert von Karajan kept him off the Salzburg Festival stage. When Karajan died, the…
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Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Hammerstein II never set foot in Salzburg. He wrote his last work, The Sound of Music (1959), in a New York rehearsal room, working from Maria von Trapp's memoir. He died in August 1960, five years before the…
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Oskar Kokoschka
The painter who turned Hohensalzburg Fortress into an art school. Oskar Kokoschka, one of the great Expressionist painters of the 20th century, founded the Schule des Sehens (School of Vision) at the fortress in 1953…
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Ottavio Mosto
The Venetian who peopled Mirabell. Ottavio Mosto carved the four mythological groups around the Grand Parterre fountain in 1690, each staging one of the elements as a story the archbishops wanted their guests to read…
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Paracelsus
Paracelsus died in Salzburg in 1541 and is still here: his grave at St. Sebastian's Cemetery draws pilgrims five centuries later. He came twice, practiced medicine above a bathhouse where the Kajetanerkirche now…
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Paul Fürst
Paul Furst was a Salzburg confectioner who, in 1890, invented the Mozart Kugel. The original, hand-made version is still sold at Konditorei Furst on Alter Markt. The mass-produced versions sold across Austria are a…