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Constanze Mozart
Mozart's wife. Daughter of Fridolin Weber. Sister of Aloysia, who was Mozart's first love. Married Wolfgang in Vienna in 1782. After his death, spent decades securing his legacy, his manuscripts, and his reputation.…
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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Count Karl von Arco
Count Karl von Arco was a minor Salzburg court official who achieved permanent historical fame through a single act: in June 1781, he kicked Mozart out of a door in Vienna, ending Mozart's employment in Salzburg and…
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Crown Prince Rudolf
The only son of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth, and a tragic figure whose death became one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Habsburg era. In January 1889, Rudolf and his young companion Baroness…
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau performed at the Salzburg Festival across four decades, returning year after year for Lieder recitals that critics and audiences treated as unmissable events. His interpretation of Schubert's…
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Dietrich Mateschitz
Dietrich Mateschitz found a cheap Thai energy drink in Bangkok in 1982, spent five years reformulating it, and launched Red Bull in Austria in 1987. He died at his home on Fuschl am See in October 2022. Between those…
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Dominicus Hagenauer
The man Mozart wrote a mass for. Dominicus Hagenauer was the son of Lorenz Hagenauer, Mozart's landlord and Leopold Mozart's closest friend. The two families lived in the same building on the Getreidegasse for years.…
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Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 and is the most internationally prominent Austrian author of the post-war era. Her plays have been staged at the Salzburg Festival, where her work turns the…
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf performed at the Salzburg Festival for seventeen consecutive seasons, from 1947 to 1964. Her Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier under Herbert von Karajan is still cited as the benchmark…
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Emanuel Schikaneder
The man who gave Mozart his last great opera first met the composer in Salzburg in 1780. Emanuel Schikaneder ran a touring theatre company, spent a season managing the city theatre, and struck up a friendship with the…
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Emperor Charlemagne
The emperor who made Salzburg matter. Charlemagne never lived in the city, but his sponsorship of Arno of Salzburg led directly to Salzburg's elevation to an archdiocese in 798. That single act transformed a regional…
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Emperor Ferdinand II
Holy Roman Emperor from 1619 to 1637 and one of the principal architects of the Counter-Reformation in Central Europe. Salzburg Cathedral was consecrated in 1628 during his reign, the culmination of decades of baroque…
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Emperor Franz II/I
The emperor who made Salzburg Austrian. Following Napoleon's final defeat, the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) confirmed Salzburg's permanent incorporation into the Austrian Empire in 1816. That union has lasted to the…