Mozart's Residence
1773
The larger apartment on Makartplatz where the Mozart family moved in 1773. Leopold Mozart lived here until his death in 1787. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived here until his permanent departure for Vienna in 1781.
Style
Rococo
3 entries tagged Rococo on Introducing Salzburg.
Schloss Leopoldskron
Built 1736
Rococo palace on the shores of Leopoldskroner Weiher, commissioned in 1736 by Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian and purchased by theatre director Max Reinhardt in 1918. Reinhardt turned it into the creative headquarters of the early Salzburg Festival and his own artistic home. The Nazis confiscated it in 1938 after Reinhardt fled.
Stift St. Peter (St. Peter's Abbey)
Founded c. 696 AD
The oldest continuously existing monastery in the German-speaking world. Founded by Saint Rupert of Salzburg around 696 AD. The church interior is the work of Beda Seeauer (rococo redecoration, 1760-1782). Michael Haydn is buried in the crypt. Altomonte's altar paintings enrich the abbey church. The Stiftskeller St.