Architect
8 February 1875, Munich, Germany - 26 January 1955, Munich
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 cluster of the Neustadt alongside the Landestheater and the Marionettentheater.
The Mozarteum has been the stage from which Mozartwoche and countless international performances have been given. Berndl worked in a late historicist idiom suited to the building’s prestige function, producing a structure that remains quietly essential to Salzburg’s identity as a music city.
Locations
Built 1910-1914
The Mozarteum Foundation is the institution that runs both of Salzburg's Mozart museums, organizes the Mozart Week festival each January, and operates the concert hall on Schwarzstrasse where major chamber and orchestral programming happens outside the Salzburg Festival.
Organizations
One of the world's leading conservatoires. Founded 1841, university status 1970. Musicians, conductors, stage directors, visual artists. Oskar Kokoschka's "School of Vision" runs under its auspices as the Internationale Sommerakademie.
