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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt was the greatest piano virtuoso the world has ever seen. He came to Salzburg in connection with the Mozart centenary of 1856, the year of the hundredth anniversary of Mozart's birth, drawn to the city that…
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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Franz Schalk
Franz Schalk is the least famous of the five founders of the Salzburg Festival, which is not the same as being the least important. As long-serving director of the Vienna State Opera and a pupil of Bruckner, he brought…
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Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert was born in Vienna in 1797 and died there in 1828, aged 31. He was not a Salzburg composer in any biographical sense. But he belongs in Salzburg's story, because the culture he anchored in Vienna's…
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Franz Wasner
Franz Wasner was the priest who turned the Trapp family's singing into a profession. He is the real figure behind the loosely drawn Max Detweiler character in The Sound of Music, though the actual man was something…
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Franz Xaver Gruber
The man who composed the melody of Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht in an afternoon. Franz Xaver Gruber was a schoolteacher and church organist in Oberndorf bei Salzburg when the local priest Joseph Mohr knocked on his door…
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Franz Xaver Süssmayr
Franz Xaver Sussmayr studied music in Salzburg under Michael Haydn, then moved to Vienna and became Mozart's student and close collaborator. When Mozart died in 1791 with the Requiem unfinished, Sussmayr completed it.…
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Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart
Mozart's younger son was born four months before his father died and spent his life carrying a name that both opened doors and closed them. Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart's most direct Salzburg act was becoming a founding…
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Friedrich Gehmacher
Friedrich Gehmacher is the forgotten founder of the Salzburg Festival. While Hofmannsthal, Reinhardt, and Strauss provided the cultural vision, it was Gehmacher, a Salzburg businessman and tireless patron, who turned…
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Friedrich Welz
Friedrich Welz built the gallery that brought Klimt, Schiele, and Kokoschka to Salzburg audiences, and he did it from a picture-framing shop his family had run for generations on Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse. The gallery is…
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Georg Muffat
Georg Muffat spent twelve years as court organist at Salzburg Cathedral, playing the great Baroque instrument daily and composing for the Archbishop's private concerts at the Residenz. The Armonico Tributo he published…
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Georg Nikolaus von Nissen
A Danish diplomat who married Mozart's widow and moved to Salzburg to write the first comprehensive Mozart biography. Georg Nikolaus von Nissen died before it was published and was buried at Sebastiansfriedhof, a few…
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Georg Raphael Donner
The supreme sculptor of the Austrian Baroque. Georg Raphael Donner brought classical refinement and emotional restraint to Central European sculpture, a counterpoint to the exuberant dynamism of the High Baroque.…