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Carl Tomaselli
The cafe on Alter Markt that carries the Tomaselli name has been serving coffee in the same location since around 1700. Mozart drank here. The interior has barely changed. It is among the oldest coffee houses 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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Carl Zuckmayer
Carl Zuckmayer chose the Salzburg Flachgau as his home. He lived near Henndorf am Wallersee from the mid-1920s until the Nazis marched into Austria in March 1938, gathering writers including Stefan Zweig at his…
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Carlos Kleiber
The most revered conductor of the 20th century began his Salzburg life as a boy in a Mondsee guesthouse, listening to his exiled father rehearse. He came back as a conductor, worked at the Landestheater under a false…
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Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli has done something no other singer in Salzburg has done: she both performs on the stage and programs what appears on it. As Artistic Director of the Pfingstfestspiele since 2012, she rebuilt a minor…
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Charmian Carr
Charmian Carr played Liesl von Trapp, the eldest daughter, in The Sound of Music (1965). She was 21, not 16, and she became one of the most enduring ambassadors the film ever produced, returning to Salzburg for cast…
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Christian Boltanski
In the Romanesque crypt beneath Salzburg Cathedral, twelve sheet-metal figures catch candlelight while a recorded voice counts the hours. The artist was Christian Boltanski, and the work is Vanitas (2009). Free to…
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Christian Doppler
Christian Doppler was born at Makartplatz 1 in Salzburg in 1803, the son of a stonemason family. His name now appears in every hospital ultrasound suite, every radar speed trap, and every GPS receiver on earth. The…
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Christian Thielemann
Christian Thielemann led the Salzburg Easter Festival for a decade and remains one of the defining conductors of the German repertoire. His connection to Salzburg runs from the Grosses Festspielhaus stage to a…
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Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer played Captain Georg von Trapp opposite Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music (1965), giving Salzburg's most famous film its most recognisable male face. He hated the experience. That contradiction is…
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Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado made his debut at the Salzburg Festival at 32, invited by Herbert von Karajan himself, and then returned almost every summer for nearly five decades. He conducted both orchestras at the heart of…
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Clemens Holzmeister
The architect who carved a world-class opera stage into a cliff. Clemens Holzmeister worked on Salzburg Festival venues across multiple building phases from 1926, culminating in the extraordinary 1956-1960 expansion of…
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Clemens Krauss
Between 1926 and 1934, Clemens Krauss turned the Salzburg Festival from an ambitious young event into the most prestigious music festival in the world. He did it by programming boldly, attracting the greatest artists,…