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Salzburg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Salzburg , province (1991 pop. 482,365...with parts of the Hohe Tauern Mts. and Salzburg Alps, and is drained by the Salzach River...province's capital and chief city is Salzburg (1991 pop. 143,978), an industrial...
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Salzburg Expulsion
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
SALZBURG EXPULSION SALZBURG EXPULSION. On 11 November 1731 Leopold Anton von Firmian, the Catholic archbishop of Salzburg (reigned 1727 – 1744), ordered the expulsion of all...
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Salzburg Festival
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Salzburg Festival annual festival of music and drama held in Salzburg, Austria, for five weeks starting in late July. The festival may be considered a descendant of the Salzburg Music Festival Weeks that the Vienna Philharmonic gave...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Mozart was born on Jan. 27, 1756, in Salzburg. His father, Leopold Mozart, a noted...then in the service of the archbishop of Salzburg. Together with his sister, Nannerl...styles and tastes across the Continent. Salzburg and Italy, 1766-1773 From his tenth...
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Amadeus Mozart Born: January 27, 1756 Salzburg, Austria Died: December 5, 1791 Vienna...Mozart was born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria. His father, Leopold Mozart...then in the service of the archbishop of Salzburg. Leopold and Anna Maria, his wife...
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756–1791)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...music. Born in the archbishopric of Salzburg, a territory of the Holy Roman Empire...bookbinder, became a musician at the Salzburg court in 1739 and in 1763 secured an...talents than what was then available in Salzburg. Mozart failed to secure a permanent...
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Johann Michael Rottmayr
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Rottmayr born in Laufen, a small town near Salzburg, on Dec. 10, 1654, probably learned...the service of the prince-bishop of Salzburg, Johann Ernst Graf Thun, who favored...Bernhard Fischer von Erlach began in Salzburg. Rottmayr painted altarpieces and frescoes...
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Kramer, Heinrich (ca. 1430-1505)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...inquisitor for the districts of Tyrol, Salzburg, Bohemia, and Moravia. He received praise from Rome and from the archbishop of Salzburg, becoming spiritual director of the Dominican church in Salzburg. In 1484 Pope Innocent VIII was responsible...
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Austria
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Austrian Alps, Kärnten, and Salzburg city, and the attractions of Vienna...auml;nder ) are Vorarlberg , Tyrol , Salzburg , Carinthia , Styria , Upper Austria...There are universities in Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz, Klagenfurt, Leoben...
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von Karajan, Herbert
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Studied Piano from Young Age The son of Salzburg's chief medical officer, von Karajan...Karajan embarked on piano studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum but temporarily switched to...for five years but often returned to Salzburg to conduct orchestral performances there...
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