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18 Spring 2023 • sai-national.org By Jayne I. Hanlin M ozart Week in Salzburg, Austria, has taken place since 1956, coinciding with the January birthdate of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart two centuries earlier. e festival's name is somewhat misleading; it encompasses eleven — not seven — days in the composer's hometown. Famed Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón has served as the artistic director since 2017, although because of the pandemic, this year's Mozart Week (held from January 26 to February 5 th ) was the first since 2020. His recorded, enthusiastic voice warmly welcomed audiences to each performance. Villazón also appeared onstage briefly at the first concert and as tenor soloist in the Requiem with the Vienna Philharmonic. Individual concert ticket prices ranged from 15 to 215 euro; general and partial subscriptions were available with a ten percent discount. Between concerts, there were additional scheduled events — some free (with reservations). I booked two. Dr. Armin Brinzing gave tours (in German and English) of the Mozart Autograph Collection for groups of twenty. On display were rare objects from the Bibliotheca Mozartiana vault. In one glass case, he pointed out the autograph of Mozart's Allegro in D major, K. 626b/16 and played a recorded performance. Newly discovered, this work, which is about a minute and a half long, is believed to have been written when the composer was seventeen. (Pianist Seong-Jin Cho premiered it on Mozart's 265th birthday; a performance of this work is available on YouTube.) At a recital, I heard Christoph Koncz perform an even earlier composition, one written between 1762 and 1764 — the Sonata in C Major for Klavier and Violin, K. 6 — on Mozart's (own) "Klotz" violin. Each aernoon, a maximum of forty people were able to watch a different film about Mozart in the Mozart Audio-Video Collection of the Mozart Residence Museum. I attended the showing of Mozart in Prague on the first aernoon. e narration was in German; the music needed no translation. e next day, Stephanie Krenner, an expert librarian, found nineteen recordings in the collection by my late brother, concert pianist Malcolm Frager. I was thrilled to listen to four I had never heard before! For research while visiting Salzburg, individuals may go to the Mozarteum's Bibliotheca Mozartiana. For those who prefer to work online: https://dme.mozarteum.at is available from anywhere in the world! ere are two Mozart museums, the Geburtshaus (Birthplace) and the Wohnhaus (Residence). Near the exits are gi shops selling all things Mozart — from books and CDs to tote bags, T-shirts, chocolates, and other souvenirs. e Magic Flute House — supposedly where Mozart composed parts of e Magic Flute — has been in several prominent locations in Vienna and Salzburg for more than two hundred years before moving to its current setting on the grounds of the Mozarteum Foundation. Shortly aer Mozart Week 2023, Wohnhaus tickets will include entry to this small, renovated wooden structure, the outside painted a dark olive green. Participating musicians — renowned soloists, conductors, and groups — came from many countries around the world, including Japan, the Czech Republic, South Korea, South Africa, Germany, France, Israel, Russia, New Zealand, and the United States. Aer the Mozart Week 2023 schedule was announced, there were several changes: conductors Robin A Wld of Music Mozart Week 2023 The Great Hall of the Wiener Concert House The Great Hall of the Wiener Concert House

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