The Getreidegasse is the street where Mozart was born and raised. In this final episode of Mozart Snapshots, Katie takes on a tour of this famous street with nooks and crannies and business that date back centuries. She's joined by renowned tenor Rolando Villazon to wrap up the series!
Mozart never performed his music in large concert halls. He played for fifty or a hundred people maximum. That meant that the musicians played their instruments differently than musicians play Mozart today. Katie visits the leading academic institution dedicated to the study of Mozart for a discussion of music in Mozart's time with early music specialist Reinhard Goebel.
Mozart was a freemason, but what does that mean? Pianist Katie Mahan takes us inside a castle that was once an important meeting place for Freemasons and the Illuminati and explains how being a Freemason wasn't just a philisophical endeavor, it was good for Mozart's livelihood.
Mozart and a mountain view. Mozart was a regular at the main churches in Salzburg, but sometimes the Mozart family make the trek to a mountain side church where Mozart would often perform.
Mozart never finished his C Minor Mass. Pianist Katie Mahan takes us inside the church in Salzburg where the only performance of Mozart's finished sections were performed.