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 There are two memorial museums in Salzburg Mozart: one in the place where his great genius born and one in the place where he lived. Both are worth visiting. 

 
  House Getreidegasse No. 9 was the place where Mozart family lived between 1747 and 1773 and here Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27 1756. The house where Mozart was born is today's most popular museum in Salzburg. 
 
  Museum located in the house where Mozart was born hosting some important pieces such as Mozart's childhood violin used on small time Mozart violin to concert, harpsichord, portraits, letters and other items that belonged to Mozart family. Some famous paintings are also exhibited here as being "Mozart Piano", an unfinished picture of the brother or Joseph Lange. 
 
  Another room is entirely dedicated to Mozart's works and the important place they occupy in the history muzicii.Partea back of the museum overlooks the University of Salzburg and the market has not hosted any member of the Mozart family. There was Mozart's neighbors apartment that was bought by the International Mozart Foundation in 1981 to recreate the way the museum was living a middle class family in the 18th century. 
 
Founded Mozart Museum since 1880, when the International Mozart Foundation inaugurated and opened to the public. Today is one of the main tourist attractions of Salzburg attracts thousands of tourists in Old Town Center. The building that houses the museum itself is called Hagenauerhaus, taking the name after the owner and family friend Mozart, Johann Lorenz Hagenauer. 
 
  The second museum dedicated to the great Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is open in the house where he lived in Makartplatz, in a building called Tanzmeisterhaus. Initially there were two houses as shown in documents from 1617. In 1685 the two houses were joined together in 1711, Lorenz Speckner owner has taken a license for a dance school. Seamna Tanzmeister the dance teacher. Dance actually meant more than moving in rhythm of music - lessons were targeted to young nobility to children of rich people and were intended to instruct the protocol and manners of the royal court. The second dance instructor and was named Franz Gottlieb Speckner Mozart was a family friend. 
 
  In 1765, Mozart family began to think about moving from Getreidegasse because conditions there were not enough for the family. Speckner died in 1767 and his cousin Maria Anna Raab has gone further but started school dance hall to rent for weddings and other events. During this period, Mozart was on tour through Europe accompanied only by his father, but it was clear that once back in Salzburg will need a bigger house. In 1773, Mozart family eventually moved to Tanzmeisterhaus. Here Mozart was enough space for rehearsals and meetings with social. The house aceasca composed many of his works but also wrote many letters - 232 of them were and kept. 
 
  Mozart family, as Tanzmeisterhaus residents were in constant transition. Mozart's sister married and moved his mother died in 1778 and Leopold Mozart died in 1787 at some time after Wolfgang already moved to Vienna. After that, the property was sold several times. 
 
  In 1944 two thirds of Tanzmeisterhaus were destroyed in bombing in the Second World War. The owner was not too happy with the bomb damage to the land sold to insurance companies to use land to build a office building. Third remained standing was sold to International Mozart Foundation in 1955, who used it as a museum. 
 
  Office Building of the insurance company was purchased by the International Mozart Foundation in 1989 and demolished in 1994 to rebuild Tanzmeisterhaus as was the time when Mozart lived in it. The vast majority of the building is used as a museum.




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