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MOZART IN AUGSBURG
He doesn’t sound a day over 230

Bavarian Augsburg proclaims itself the “German Mozart City”. And though the composer noted for his impossibly intricate and whimsically dark musical operas left his mark on many European cities, only Augsburg has statues dedicated to two Mozarts. Wolfgang Amadeus’ music teacher and overbearing father Leopold Mozart was born in Augsburg. After the family left the city for proud dad to take his prodigy son on tour through Europe, performing in the salons of the aristrocracy - the Joe Jackson (father of the “gloved one”) of his day, they returned to the city many times for performances. It was during a 1777 visit that Wolfgang Amadeus began a love affair with his cousin, Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, and the famous "Bäsle letters" were written to her.

May events and performances include two weeks of the German Mozart Festival. If you can’t get there until summer, listen to open air performances ranging from classical to jazz at the Fronhof, the former residence of the Bishop of Augsburg, where a monument to father Mozart and son stands. And you know Wolgang Amadeus Mozart would be totally into jazz.

Augsburg is easily reachable from Munich in about a half hour plus by train or car. The other Mozart cities are in Austria, Salzburg where the composer was born and grew is about two hours the other way and Vienna, where the musical prodigy became famous and died a pauper is about four hours. © Bargain Travel Europe

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