{"id":5468,"date":"2017-03-11T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelwithachallenge.com\/?page_id=5468"},"modified":"2020-11-10T18:27:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T02:27:13","slug":"vienna-mozart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.travelwithachallenge.com\/?page_id=5468","title":{"rendered":"Mozart Music in Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mozart Music in Vienna<\/h1>\n
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Musicians confer before a Vienna Concert Orchestra performance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vienna Mozart Orchestra<\/h1>\n<\/p>\n
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by Alison Gardner, Editor, Travel with a Challenge<\/h1>\n
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Dedicated music lovers have long considered Vienna, Austria<\/a> to be a heavenly destination where music that makes you stop and pay attention is played in expected and unexpected places throughout the old city. On many pedestrian-only streets and squares, there are accomplished individual musicians, string quartets and choral groups playing or singing for donations or to sell their CDs, and there are colorful traditional coffeehouses whose association with music and musicians goes back centuries.\n<\/p>\n

There are also weekly organ concerts in exquisitely-decorated rococo churches with stain glass that positively vibrates with energy and sound, and at elegantly-decorated concert halls, where orchestras and opera singers transport their audiences to another \u201creal time\u201d when Vienna was the home of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Johann Strauss and Mahler over a period of 150 years.

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Vienna Mozart Orchestra concert hall.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

To focus on just one of these musical supermen for a day, I set out to learn many surprising facts and a few myths about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who moved to Vienna in 1781 and lived there until his premature death ten years later at age 35. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Vienna is a compact walkable city making it easy to go from one place to another in a matter of minutes, so I started at the huge, diverse Haus der Musik\/Sound Museum<\/strong>, www.hausdermusik.com\/en\/-1<\/a>, taking the elevator straight to \u201cThe Great Composers\u201d 3rd floor where there are many rooms and interactive exhibits focusing on the life and music of each composer. This visit will take longer than you think!
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Musicians in action.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Then I was off to explore the recently-opened Mozarthaus Vienna<\/strong>, www.mozarthausvienna.at<\/a>, on a narrow sidestreet that required serious map consultation. There four floors of Mozart\u2019s social and musical life are showcased in authentic, intimate, not always pleasant, detail.\n<\/p>\n

This is the only Mozart home in Europe that is preserved today. Intriguingly, the museum has assembled excerpts from a number of 20th century movies made about Mozart\u2019s life, and asks visitors to consider which may be the most authentic.\n<\/p>\n

By getting a combined ticket for entry to both museums, just a ten minute walk from each other, or a combined museum and Mozart concert ticket, there is a combined price with a good reduction. Again, this is a \u201csit and absorb\u201d museum. I topped off my day of Mozart revelations with a memorable concert of the Vienna Mozart Orchestra<\/strong>, www.mozart.co.at\/orchester-en.php<\/a>, which performs many times a year from its repertoire of more than 100 of the master\u2019s works, both orchestral and operatic.<\/p>\n

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The home of Vienna Mozart Orchestra. Vienna Mozart Orchestra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Less well known abroad than the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and considerably younger, founded in 1986, the VMO and its 30 musicians have devoted themselves exclusively to the wide-ranging works of Mozart. It is not only the music one comes to hear, much of it so familiar that humming along is hard to resist, but to witness the charming habit of this orchestra to perform in the style and costume of the 18th century.\n<\/p>\n

The building fa\u00e7ade and glittering concert hall interior that transport visitors back to Mozart\u2019s era, all clearly prove that a time warp is not impossible. I did feel wistfully 21st century myself as I sized up those satin gowns from the sixth row. With each performance, a selection of Vienna\u2019s best voices complements the orchestra\u2019s world-class sound, and the overall effect is a sustained magic that every audience is understandably reluctant to let go too easily. It was indeed the finest of endings to my Vienna day with Mozart!\n<\/p>\n

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Period-clad singers bring to life Mozart’s best known light opera solos and duets.\u00a0<\/em>Vienna Mozart Orchestra<\/h5>\n<\/p>\n

Vienna is such a rewarding city on so many cultural and historic levels that a week would hardly embrace all the attractions. We invite you to enjoy the companion article in our feature article collection, “Exploring Vienna with a Tight Budget: Ten Tips for Visiting Vienna.”<\/a>
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Alison Gardner<\/strong> is a travel journalist, magazine editor, guidebook author, and consultant. She specializes in researching vacations throughout the world, suitable for people over 50 and for women of all ages. She is also the publisher and editor of the globally-respected Travel with a Challenge<\/em> web magazine, www.travelwithachallenge.com<\/a>.
\nEmail: alison@travelwithachallenge.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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