Mozart’s Final Fortress: Picture: Thomas Meyer Images supplied by Concierge Auctions.
Many individuals consider that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was essentially the most vital musical genius to have ever lived. His greater than 800 compositions, which included concertos, symphonies, and operas, helped to outline the classical age and served as an inspiration to composers reminiscent of Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. Even now, performances of his music may be discovered everywhere in the world. Mozart, a younger maestro, started writing items on the age of 5 and his first symphony on the age of eight. He carried out for royalty whereas touring Europe along with his household. He was named court docket concertmaster in Salzburg in 1769 when he turned 13. He would later serve for different royal purchasers, together with Emperor Joseph II, earlier than going out on his personal as an unbiased.
At 35, Mozart handed away in 1791 after turning into ailing in the course of the world premiere of his opera La Clemenza di Tito. A few of his most beloved compositions, such because the opera The Magic Flute and his Requiem, which he was unable to finish earlier than his loss of life, have been created throughout his fruitful last 12 months.
A fantastically embellished dwelling space. Picture: Thomas Meyer Images supplied by Concierge Auctions.
Rely Franz von Walsegg of Schloss Stuppach in Salzburg, Austria commissioned Mozart’s final composition. The bidding for this historic fortress, one of many few in decrease Austria nonetheless privately owned, shall be open till December 14 at Sotheby’s Concierge Auctions in New York. A value of 12 million euros was beforehand supplied for the palace. Often known as “Mozart’s Final Fortress,” the constructing now homes a number of different corporations and a top-notch efficiency venue. The property acquisition contains entry to the expertise theatre, membership salon, live performance program, and chateau store.
The attractive eating house. Picture: Thomas Meyer Images supplied by Concierge Auctions.
With some partial renovations within the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, the fortress has a fancy historical past that begins at the least in 1130. The officer in control of the fortress defied the Nazi orders to blow it up in 1945 in order that it wouldn’t fall into Soviet arms, and the fortress survived. Its structure, which contains facets of medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque types, displays the a number of eras during which it was constructed. The beautiful four-story house is encircled by a fantastically designed park that includes ornate gardens and historic timber.
Totally outfitted kitchen space. Picture: Thomas Meyer Images supplied by Concierge Auctions.
The outdated home has uncommon treasures all through. The 50 rooms of the fortress supply a wide range of leisure areas, together with a proper eating room, two halls, a film theatre, and a library. The property additionally has a dungeon and the Renaissance-style Requiem chapel. Together with Mozart, different well-known visitors of the fortress embrace Emperor Franz Stephan of Lothringen, Napoleon Bonaparte, Franz Schubert, Pope Pius VI, and Princess Isabelle von Bourbon-Parma.
Wind down within the bed room. Picture: Thomas Meyer Images supplied by Concierge Auctions.
The Austrian village of Gloggnitz is dwelling to Schloss Stuppach. The area has a wealth of historic websites and a number of other Gothic and Baroque structure. It’s conveniently positioned—a rail or car trip from Vienna takes solely about an hour. Vienna, typically referred to as the “Metropolis of Music,” has a wealthy and prolonged historical past of classical music, opera, and theatre. Mozart resided within the metropolis for a lot of his profession, married at St. Stephen’s Cathedral, and was interred within the St. Marx Cemetery. Quite a few monuments, a museum, and the composer’s surviving house testify to the composer’s shut relationship with Austria’s energetic metropolis.
Take pleasure in a shower on this charming rest room. Picture: Thomas Meyer Images supplied by Concierge Auctions.
The public sale shall be held by Sotheby’s Concierge Auctions. Photographs: Thomas Meyer Images supplied by Concierge Auctions.
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