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Georg Solti
Georg Solti's Salzburg story is one of the great full-circle narratives in the history of the Salzburg Festival. He arrived in 1937 as a 24-year-old playing glockenspiel under Arturo Toscanini's baton. He came back as…
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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Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl was born on 3 February 1887 at Waagplatz 2 in the Altstadt, the fifth of seven children in a Protestant merchant family. He became one of the central voices of German-language Expressionism, and his poems…
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Georg Trieb
Georg Trieb's Berliner Block sits in the Mirabell Gardens as the least ornamental object in one of the most ornamental settings in Salzburg. That is the whole idea. A massive rectangular stone slab, unworked and…
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Georg von Trapp
Born 1880 in Zadar. Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine commander in WWI; awarded the Military Order of Maria Theresa. First wife died 1922; seven children. Moved to Villa Trapp in Aigen in 1923. Married Maria Kutschera in…
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Gérard Mortier
Gerard Mortier arrived at the Salzburg Festival in 1992 and immediately started dismantling what Karajan had built. Audiences booed. The Salzburg establishment was furious. By the time he left in 2001, the Festival was…
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Gerhard Reus
Gerhard Reus is the Salzburg-born guide and entrepreneur behind this site. He grew up here, left, came back, and learned to see the city through the eyes of people arriving for the first time. That education never…
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Giovanni Gaspare Zuccalli
The architect who designed the Kajetanerkirche (1685-1697) in the Altstadt, a baroque church for the Theatine Order built on the site of a medieval bathhouse where Paracelsus had once practised. Giovanni Gaspare…
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Gustav Klimt
The world's most famous Austrian painter, and a man who spent fourteen consecutive summers at Attersee in the Salzkammergut. Gustav Klimt, co-founder of the Vienna Secession and supreme figure of Viennese Jugendstil,…
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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler composed two of his greatest symphonies in a small wooden hut on the edge of a Salzkammergut lake, telling Bruno Walter not to bother admiring the view because he had already turned it into music. That…
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Hans Makart
Salzburg's most celebrated painter of the 19th century. Hans Makart's enormous historical and allegorical canvases, lush, theatrical, intensely colourful, set the visual tone for the entire Viennese Ringstrasse era. So…
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Hans Waldburger
Part of the first wave of Italian-Swiss craftsmen who turned Salzburg baroque. Hans Waldburger came from the Graubunden canton in Switzerland during Wolf Dietrich's transformative building programme and contributed to…
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
The Baroque composer who built the musical architecture that the Mozarts would later inhabit. Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber arrived at the Salzburg court in 1670, rose to Hofkapellmeister in 1684, and was ennobled by…