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Paul Troger
A leading baroque ceiling painter. If Rottmayr's frescoes crown the Kollegienkirche dome, Paul Troger's Glory of Saint Cajetan crowns the nave of the Kajetanerkirche nearby. Born in the South Tyrol and trained in…
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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Peter Handke
Peter Handke lived on the Monchsberg above Salzburg's old town for almost a decade, from 1979 to 1988, and wrote some of the most important German-language literature of the 20th century there. He won the Nobel Prize…
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Plácido Domingo
Pavarotti had the more famous voice, but Placido Domingo was the complete musician. He sang over 150 operatic roles across every major style and period, conducted orchestras, and performed at the Salzburg Festival…
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Pope Benedict XVI
He grew up just across the border from Salzburg. Joseph Ratzinger spent his school years in Traunstein, about 30 km away, and his family had roots in Tittmoning on the Salzach. He never held the Salzburg professorship…
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Pope John Paul II
On 19 June 1998, Pope John Paul II celebrated open-air mass at Domplatz before approximately 150,000 people. He stood in a square that has hosted public religious life since Saint Rupert founded the diocese around the…
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Riccardo Muti
Riccardo Muti has been conducting at the Salzburg Festival since 1971 without interruption. No living conductor has a longer unbroken connection to Salzburg. His annual August concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic are…
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Richard Berndl
The architect who designed the Mozarteum main building on Schwarzstrasse (completed 1914), the physical centre of Salzburg's concert life and music education for over a century. The building anchors the cultural…
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Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers composed the music that made Salzburg a global destination. Every melody visitors now hum in Mirabell Gardens, at Nonnberg Abbey, and across the hills outside the city came from Rodgers, who wrote The…
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Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss co-founded the Salzburg Festival in 1920 and served as its first musical president. His operas, written in close collaboration with Hugo von Hofmannsthal, have been Festival staples from the opening…
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Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner passed through Salzburg once, in August 1861, on a damp carriage journey to Vienna, hiding cigars under his laundry to avoid customs. He would not have guessed that a century later the city would stage…
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Robert Wise
Robert Wise directed The Sound of Music (1965) with roughly 70% of the film shot on location in and around Salzburg. That single decision made Salzburg's landmarks recognisable to hundreds of millions of people who…
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Romy Schneider
Romy Schneider grew up in the Salzburg-Berchtesgaden border region and attended boarding school at Goldenstein Castle near Salzburg. The Sissi trilogy, which made her one of the most famous Austrian faces in global…