Showing posts with label Salzburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salzburg. Show all posts

Friday, May 7, 2010

Salzburg


Salzburg is the city where Mozart was born. Where he was forced into music by his father, Leopold, himself a musician. Leopold saw in Mozart a fountain of money due to his skils with musical instruments. Later, Mozart became the composing genius that we all admire.

Salzbrug is also the city of the Sound of Music, a movie that every single Austrian I asked about said he or she had never hear of it. Strange.

The picture shows the Gardens in Mirabell Palace, including the fountain where famous 'Do-Re-Mi' song from the Sound of Music was recorded. In the background we can see Hohensalzburg Castle, the old residence of the archbishops of Salzburg.