This project has continued under strict security measures even during the pandemic and celebrated its tenth anniversary last year. Thanks to many sponsorships from institutions and private individuals, a concert series in the footsteps of Mozart could be planned again this year and starts today, Wednesday 24.8.2022 - under the artistic direction of Stefan David Hummel - with the journey to the rehearsal camp near Rome.
This year, the focus is on solidarity with Ukraine: in recent months, the Mozarteum University has taken in nearly 50 students from Ukraine due to the devastating war situation. Students from Ukraine will also be part of this project. We want to set a sign for a peaceful coexistence in Europe! What is possibly completely unknown to many people in this context is that Mozart's son Franz Xaver Mozart moved to Lviv (today's Lviv) in 1808 as a music teacher and lived there for many years as a successful pianist and music teacher.

BELLA MUSICA 26.8. - 5.9.2021
ENSEMBLE GIOVANILE EUROPEA
YOUNG AMBASSADOR OF THE EUROPEAN MOZART WAYS
Project of the Mozarteum University Salzburg - Pre College Salzburg
Tenth anniversary: 2011 - 2021

As in 2020, the European BELLA MUSICA project will now continue to take place in its second pandemic year, under great security precautions and with a reduced line-up.
Young musicians from Germany, Italy and Austria will again travel to Italy for a 
will again travel to Italy for a working period - this time to the Amalfi Coast near the region of Naples, which the young Wolfgang Amdé Mozart already visited in 1770....

The short film about the 2020 tour provides an insight into the work.

The founding and board member Land Salzburg sat down right from the start for the youth and educational field and developed the network-wide project line "On the way to Mozart" - "Young Mozart Ways".

The person W. A. Mozart, his life, his work and his European-style personality should be made tangible for children an young people. What Mozart means for each of us, in what way he could be inspiration and an example and why his life and his work are so unique should be discovered through creative approaches in musical, pictorial and creative,  "young" activities ... and perhaps be experienced for the first time....
 

The project, initiated by the Province of Salzburg and the European Mozart Ways, was carried out in cooperation with the " Young Literarturhaus Salzburg", the elementary school Obertrum and the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg....

WHO WE ARE

The European Mozart Ways are an international network connecting cities, regions and institutions in 10 European countries visited by Mozart during his travels and where he spent part of his life.  Whether from London to Naples or from Paris to Bratislava, Mozart travelled more than half of his lifetime; a fact which has contributed in a most decisive way to the constitution of this unsurpassable figure of Western Culture and especially influenced his personal and artistic development.

Mozart left his footsteps in about 200 locations in present-day Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Selected cities and regions, as well as cultural organizations, academic institutions and tourism organizations are represent-ted as members in the Association "European Mozart Ways”....
 

New and active approaches to the product "Classical Music" for all population groups from young to old: the new online platform of the European Mozart Ways "Communicating-Music" should enable and support high-quality music education in the European context.