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	Encyclopedia: Salzburg Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Salzburg Festival is a prominent music festival in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
		Flag of Salzburg Salzburg (population 145,000 in 2003) is a city in western Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg (population 520,000 in 2003).
		Under him, Salzburg developed into a meeting place for the jet set, but at the same time he was criticized for the increasing commercialization of the festival, particularly with regard to the influence of the record companies, which sometimes even managed to determine the program and casting.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Salzburg-Festival (832 words)

	Salzburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Salzburg (population 145,000 in 2003) is a city in western Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg (population 520,000 in 2003).
		Until 1803, the Archbishop of Salzburg was the ruler of the city and the surrounding territory.
		Salzburg is also the birthplace of Hans Makart, a 19th century Austrian painter-decorator and national celebrity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salzburg (1706 words)

	Salzburg Festival. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The festival may be considered a descendant of the Salzburg Music Festival Weeks that the Vienna Philharmonic gave irregularly between 1877 and 1910.
		The festival probably achieved its greatest brilliance in the 1930s, when Arturo Toscanini and Bruno Walter were its leading conductors.
		From the late 1950s into the late 1980s the festival’s character was largely shaped by the conductor Herbert von Karajan.
	www.bartleby.com /65/sa/SalzFest.html (414 words)

	classical music - andante - preview - salzburg festival
		Introduction to the Salzburg Festival -Salzburg Festival on the Selenophone
		There were no music performances at the 1923 festival, when the first official ISCM festival was held in Salzburg, and the entire 1924 festival was cancelled because of the general economic crisis.
		The founding and early history of the Salzburg Festival has increasingly become a fashionable topic in cultural history; in one compelling view it is seen as a search for Austrian identity after the fall of the Habsburg monarchy, and as a conservative reaction against modernism (Steinberg, 1990).
	www.andante.com /profiles/salzburg/salzburgfestival.cfm (937 words)

	Sightseeing & excursions Salzburg - Hotel Schorn, Salzburg
		They built the Salzburg Residence, the New Residence, the Mirabell Palace, Hellbrunn Palace, and many other buildings with which they demonstrated their power.
		The scenery also makes Salzburg the ideal place to spend a holiday - straddling the river Salzach, it is peacefully in the arms of the local hills.
		To the south of Salzburg, nature lovers and climbers savour the scenery where the high peaks soar up to the sky.
	www.gasthofschorn.at /en/salzburg.shtml (841 words)

	AllRefer.com - Salzburg Festival (Music: History) - Encyclopedia
		Salzburg Festival, annual festival of music and drama held in Salzburg, Austria, for five weeks starting in late July.
		After World War I several leading German-speaking cultural figures : including Hermann Bahr, Richard Strauss, Max Reinhardt, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal : developed the idea of an annual summer cultural festival to be held in Salzburg.
		Since 1992 the festival has been led by the Belgian GErard Mortier who, somewhat controversially, has performed many contemporary works and encouraged modern interpretations of the classics.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SalzFest.html (484 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / Flimm named Salzburg Festival director (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		German theatre director Juergen Flimm was appointed on Monday as the new artistic director of the Salzburg Festival as of 2006, the festival committee said.
		SALZBURG, Austria -- German theatre director Juergen Flimm was appointed on Monday as the new artistic director of the Salzburg Festival as of 2006, the festival committee said.
		The Austria Press Agency reported that the Salzburg Festival board agreed to Flimm's proposal for Peter Schmidl, manager and solo clarinetist of the Vienna Philharmonic, to assume responsibility for the Salzburg Festival's concert program.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2004/08/30/flimm_named_salzburg_festival_director (181 words)

	75 Years Of Salzburg Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The idea of the festival is by no means a new one; it is rooted in the mystery plays of the sixteenth century and in the court theater culture of the seventeenth century.
		Later Festival events were also characterized by the discovery of new "locations," the different settings serving to heighten the artistic experience and thus create a further dimension.
		The 168 festival events held in 1994 were attended by more than 213,000 visitors, another 21,000 came to the rehearsals and dress rehearsals.
	www.austria.org /sep95/salz.htm (1120 words)

	CBC Arts: Salzburg Festival to stage Mozart marathon in 2006
		Salzburg Festival to stage Mozart marathon in 2006
		SALZBURG, AUSTRIA - Austria's venerable Salzburg Festival will stage all 22 of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas and musical theatre works next year, the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth.
		Born in Salzburg in January 1756, Mozart is considered Austria's greatest son.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2005/01/20/Arts/salzburgmozart050120.html (356 words)

	Salzburg Summer Festival - Vacation Idea.com
		Salzburg, known as the birth city of the classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is located in northern Austria, 190 miles (310 km) from Vienna and 80 miles (130 km) from Munich.
		Domplatz, an open-air square fronting the Salzburg Cathedral seats 2,111 people and is used for the Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Jedermann performance during the festival.
		Salzburg can be reached by plane (Salzburg Airport), fast train from other European cities or by car.
	www.vacationidea.com /articles/salzburg_summer_festival.html (255 words)

	MATC Salzburg Trip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Salzburg is considered to by many to be one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.
		The Salzburg College European Studies Program was initially developed jointly with Northern Illinois State University in 1970, the first group of 22 students arriving in Salzburg the spring of 1971.
		Salzburg College considers 60-70 students as an ideal number to be enrolled in its European Studies Program(s).
	matcmadison.edu /matc/offerings/internationalstudies/salzburg.shtm (1115 words)

	Salzburg : Introduction \| Frommers.com
		Salzburg, a city of 17th- and 18th-century houses, is internationally known for its architectural grandeur.
		The Salzburg Cathedral is the first deliberately Italian-style church to be built north of the Alps.
		The city is the setting for The Salzburg Festival, a world-renowned annual event that attracts music lovers, especially Mozart fans, from all over the globe.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/salzburg/0102010001.html (473 words)

	classical music - andante - 85th salzburg festival set to open
		SALZBURG (dpa) — The 85th Salzburg Festival will be opened this Sunday [July 24], kicking off a full programme of 183 events and performances until the end of August.
		The Salzburg Festival, with a worldwide reputation, is easily Austria's most prestigious summer event, with a huge variety of top-level productions and performances in many areas.
		The original idea of the Salzburg Festival was to have the entire city as a stage for the home population and visitors.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25750 (748 words)

	Startseite Sehenswertes
		The so-called festival district is located at the foot of the Mönchsberg.
		The Large Festival Hall was built after plans by the Austrian architect, Clemens Holzmeister, and was inaugurated by Herbert von Karajan in 1960.
		The statues of the beautifully designed façade of Salzburg's Cathedral unites the international and the local church: Peter and Paul with the Salzburg patrons St. Rupert and Virgil.
	www2.salzburg.info /sehenswertes_29.htm (515 words)

	Salzburg Festival, Austria
		The reputation of the Salzburg festival is known throughout the world.
		From 1956 Karajan managed the artistic part of the festival, it is due to his work that Salzburg has the reputation of a stronghold of culture.
		Another obligatory appointment for the Festival lovers is the Whitsuntide Festival, which play tribute to the baroque history of the city.
	www.kobenzl.at /en-salzburg-festival.shtml (562 words)

	Loney's Show Notes
		Salzburg's shimmering splendor is its centuries of architectural monuments, bathed in the rosy glow of sunrise, the bright blazing sun of noonday—complete with Glockenspiel, and the soft shadowy tones of sunset.
		Not only are the hefty programs at Salzburg, Bayreuth, Bregenz, and Munich crammed with dense essays on Meanings, Symbols, Sources, and Influences important to understanding various operas—and dramas—but directors and designers also weigh in with their own often impressive explanations of what they have discovered from such scholarship and their own researches.
		Salzburg is, after all, the place where "The hills are alive with the sound of music." Lopez's prospective auditors were advised to wear mountain-hikers' garb.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /plath/392/culture_desk/LT99102T.htm (8102 words)

	Salzburg Travel Guide \| Fodor's Online
		Salzburg lies on both banks of the Salzach River, at the point where it is pinched between two mountains, the Kapuzinerberg and the Mönchsberg.
		While Salzburg is a visual pageant of Baroque motifs, music is the element that shapes the life of the city.
		Since 1920, the Salzburg Festival, which draws a crowd to the city from mid-July until the end of August, has honored Mozart with performances of his works by the world's greatest musicians.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=salzburg@134 (326 words)

	Salzburg Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Salzburg is an enchanting baroque city named by association with the local salt (salz) mines.
		For 2006 the Salzburg festival dates are July 24 to August 31 but 2006 is the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s 250th birthday so this will not be an ordinary festival year.
		Salzburg Airport W.A. Mozart is located a mere 15 minutes from the city centre as is the central railway station and both provide good international and European connections.
	www.activityholidaysguide.com /salzburgFestival_1.php (473 words)

	Salzburg : Nightlife : The Salzburg Festival \| Frommers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Salzburg : Nightlife : The Salzburg Festival
		One of the premier music attractions of Europe, the Salzburg Festival celebrates its 85th season in 2005.
		Festival tickets, however, are in great demand, and there never are enough of them.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/salzburg/0102025064.html (343 words)

	Salzburg Festival : Hotel Gmachl, Salzburg
		The Salzburg festival takes place from the middle of July to the end of August.
		At different places throughout the city (big festival hall, small festival hall, Felsenreitschule (Cave riding school), cathedral square, Mozarteum, county theatre, Pernerinsel) the highest cultural standard is offered.
		Our hotel is during the festival time a popular lodging for opera friends, who wish to combine their cultural vacation with relaxation.
	www.gmachl.at /en-kultur_festspiele.shtml (169 words)

	American Friends of the Salzburg Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Use of the American Friends' office in Salzburg throughout the Festival, with English-speaking staff on hand who are dedicated to the American Friends.
		Symposia, a program of lectures and seminars in Salzburg that brings leading conductors, performers, critics, scholars, and authors together to provide interpretative commentaries on selected operas and concerts being performed during the Festival.
		Free copy of the Official Festival Program, a handsome and indispensable 340 page volume that provides details of performances, biographies of the artists, essays on composers and compositions, articles on a wide variety of musical and literary topics and analyses of themes in and perspectives on works performed at the Festival (in English and German).
	www.afsalzburgfestival.com /membership.htm (354 words)

	Salzburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		SALZBURG: A hunter yesterday found the body of Helmut Simon, a German who discovered a Bronze Age mummy frozen intact in a glacier in 1991.
		SALZBURG (Austria): Former Austrian downhill world champion Hannes Trinkl was critically injured Tuesday in a logging accident that could have claimed his life...
		The Austrian stadiums scheduled for use at Euro 2008 are in Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Salzburg and the modernised 50,000 seat Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna...
	conservation.mongabay.com /Salzburg.htm (2901 words)

	Salzburg Festival on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After World War I several leading German-speaking cultural figures—including Hermann Bahr, Richard Strauss, Max Reinhardt, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal —developed the idea of an annual summer cultural festival to be held in Salzburg.
		Mozart, Moses and money; the Salzburg Festival had scores as well as deals.
		Juergens Flimm to become new artistic director of the Salzburg Festival in 2006
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/SalzF1est.asp (630 words)

	American Friends of the Salzburg Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Every summer music and theater lovers from around the globe come to Salzburg to enjoy an extraordinary array of opera, orchestral, choral, chamber and solo recitals and theater by the world's leading artists, conductors and directors.
		Many Americans are among the visitors to the Festival and the American Friends were founded in 1987 to enhance their experience at the Festival.
		The American Friends of the Salzburg Festival, a non profit organization, is a perfect venue to meet other music lovers from America, Europe and around the world.
	www.afsalzburgfestival.com /about.htm (177 words)

	Friends of the Salzburg Festival
		This philosophy, which guides the 36-member ensemble, goes back to Bernhard Paumgartner from Salzburg, the conductor and music teacher who formed a group of teachers and students from Salzburg’s music university, the Mozarteum, to perform in the 1951/52 season.
		The Camerata Academica of the Mozarteum Salzburg, as Paumgartner called his new ensemble, gave its first concert on 9 April 1952, in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
		Under the slogan ‘Partnership for Welfare and Culture’, the s Insurance Company and the Salzburger Sparkasse bank are the partners on the one side, being responsible for material needs; partner on the other side is the Camerata Salzburg, and it is responsible for the artistic results.
	www.festspielfreunde.at /english/frames/200207/ef_200207_70.htm (549 words)

	Cornell News: Salzburg Festival book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		An authority on the Salzburg Festival, Steinberg has published articles about its history and meaning in The New York Times and in scholarly journals.
		The highly regarded book, which traces the cultural and political roots of the festival, also has been reissued in paperback this September by Cornell University Press with a timely new preface that is highly relevant to the current political situation in Austria.
		Mortier countered that the speech was "a fatal reminder of the Nazi period" when a false interpretation of the festival's artistic values was used to arouse nationalism and legitimate Hitler's regime.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Nov00/Steinberg.book.html (332 words)

	Startseite Sehenswertes
		[October 26, 2005] Unveiling of the "Salzburg Panorama, 1829" - Measuring 26 meters long and 5 meters wide, the painting depicts the city of Salzburg and its environs.
		This brochure was created for residents and guests for whom detailed information on the city’s infrastructure is especially important — for people with disabilities.
		Salzburg Card“ is your key to all of the attractions, lets you use the city's public transport free of charge and also entitles you to a number of other discounts.
	www2.salzburg.info /sehenswertes.html (257 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: All 22 Mozart Operas to Be Performed at 2006 Salzburg Festival
		The Salzburg Festival will produce all of Mozart’s operas in its 2006 season, the Associated Press reports.
		Next year’s festival, which opens July 23, 2006, commemorates the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth, in the city where he was born, with this marathon set of performances, including new productions of Le nozze di Figaro and Idomeneo.
		Salzburg Festival director Peter Ruzicka said that the seven most-performed Mozart operas “would have been too little for Salzburg.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/1211.html (332 words)

	Salzburg Sightseeing - Europe for Visitors
		The Large Festival Hall, Small Festival Hall, and Felsenreitschule (Rocky Riding School) are the primary venues for the Salzburg Festival.
		In Salzburg, Dirndl dresses and men's traditional suits are still popular, and you'll see beautiful examples of the former at local concerts and other events.
		The Salzburg Toy Museum, located in a former hospital, is small but interesting.
	europeforvisitors.com /europe/articles/salzburg2.htm (575 words)

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