Mozart’s Trips
Mozart is not only a son of Salzburg, but he is also the brightest star that has ever born in this land.
There is no chance to go around the city and not notice it. Mozart’s Birth House and Mozart’s House are only the two main places that evidence his importance around here. Concerts, chocolate brand, bakeries, cafes, shirts and souvenirs, among other items, do the job of turning this fact even more obvious.
That he was a great and outstanding musician everybody knows, but that he was a greater traveller not everybody is aware. In his house, located in the heart of Salzburg, where nowadays takes place his main museum, there is an especial room where information on his trips around Europe is displayed.
The presentation starts in a remarkable way, making it clear how travelling was important in Mozart’s point of view when it shows a piece of the letter he wrote his father during one of his travels to Paris on 11th of September 1779:
“For I aware you that people who do not travel (I mean those who cultivates the arts and learning) are indeed miserable creatures. A fellow of mediocre talent will remain mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent (which without impiety I cannot deny that I possess) will go to seed, if he always remains in the same place”.
Indeed, Mozart spent almost 1/3 of his life travelling. Dead at 35, he travelled 10 years, two months and two days and due to the bad conditions of the roads, and also to the fact that travels were by carriage, he had only 17 trips in his whole life. Italy, Czech Republic, Germany and France were some of the countries he has been to, but his favourite city, according to register always was Vienna.