Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a petite 5' 4", but his shadow looms large over his city of birth, Salzburg, Austria. Tourism is Salzburg's biggest industry today, and Mozart is at the center of that ...

Salzburg was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's home for the first 25 years of his brief 35-year life, and the city still hums with his precocious energy. offers visitors plenty of opportunities to learn ...

You can linger over a coffee at the venerable Café Tomaselli, where Mozart often dined, and say hi to his statue in the square now named Mozartplatz. (While erected just 50 years after his death ...

Mozart lovers from all over the world will head to the most famous address, Getreidegasse 9, in Salzburg's old town centre. The musical genius was born in the yellow house in 1756 and began ...

Mozart’s birthplace is on Getreidegasse (£5.80 entry) and, Mozart’s Residence, the house where he grew up, is across the Salzach on Makartplatz (also £5.80).

Mozart’s 250th birthday is being celebrated in a big way in Vienna, too, but it’s not as dominant as in Salzburg, because there is so much other history to take in.

On January 27th, 2006, the world will mark the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth. That week, Performance Today will broadcast from Mozart's hometown of Salzburg, Austria.