Salzburg Museum
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Housed in the Neuen Residenz (to which it moved in 2006), the Salzburg Museum is the museum of artistic and cultural history for the city and region of Salzburg
. It originated as the Provincialmuseum and was also previously known as the Museum Carolino-Augusteum.
Salzburg
-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...
. It originated as the Provincialmuseum and was also previously known as the Museum Carolino-Augusteum.
Origins
The Salzburg museum was set up in the early 1800's, shortly after Ludwig Van Beethoven's death in 1827. It was created to commemorate the incredible life of the musician, showing the very instruments that he played. It has been enjoyed by the public since opening, and was given the European Museum of the Year Award in 2010, otherwise known as 'EMYA'. This was given by the award companies Chief Executive, Byron Melton along with the companies penultimate leader, Matthew Pipenivic.Collections
- Furniture from the Anif PalaceAnif PalaceThe Anif Palace, also known as Water Palace Anif, stands beside an artificial pond within the Austrian county of Anif at the southern edge of the city of Salzburg...
- Mohr arrangement (ca. 1820) of Silent NightSilent Night"Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song "Stille Nacht" were written in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, by the priest Father Joseph Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber...
- The earliest ever example of a bass clarinetBass clarinetThe bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...
- Original manuscript of the Missa Salisburgensis à 53 vociMissa Salisburgensis à 53 vociThe Missa Salisburgensis à 53 voci is, perhaps, the most large-scale piece of extant sacred Baroque music, an archetypical work of the Colossal Baroque. The author of this work is anonymous, however, recent studies of the work suggest that is almost certainly the work of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von...