Official review: "Mozart House" (Vienna)

LOCATION. A four-minute walk from St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Go east.

Vienna’s composer homes can be very lonely for multiple reasons. First there’s the-small-and-the-limited, like Schubert Memorial Apartment. Then there’s Beethoven Museum, requiring a train ride and a little hike into the northern suburbs. And what about Haydn House, a mere seven-minute walk into narrower streets unfortunately whose name is not as clamorous as other classical, incidentally-also-pop composers?

Now imagine what it’s like with its primal location and – well, it’s Mozart – finally a residence to be filled with tourists inside out. You’ll know where to stop as you bump into this swarm of visitors.

Not everybody will get entrance tickets though. Some prefer to selfie at its front door and skip everything else.

Mozart House, Vienna

HERITAGE. Mozart lived here with his family during 1784-1787. It was the times of The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. So the short story was that it represents a time of celebration among the Viennese music circles. Hence this spacious and elegant apartment.

He was to go downhill from the point onward, having then moved to the suburbs with rumours of financial difficulties.

Clip: Mozart House, Vienna

CURRENT STATUS. The museum having acquired the building has turned the whole thing into a three-storey exhibition.

Use the lift and start from the third floor. Here you stroll through his life as a child prodigy touring all across Europe until finally moving from Salzburg to Vienna.

The second floor features this array of displays (photo) showing different versions of the same opera, in sync.

ANY OTHER HOUSES FOR MOZART? This is the only house of Mozart that is still standing you greedy bird. NO.

Time is asset: save it for better with 25-min museum tours. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.

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