Like its affiliates it was established in honour of Salzburg-born musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

It built, and to this day maintains, a sizeable elegant office building on Schwarzstraße to which are attached two concert halls.

The larger of the two halls is itself known as the “Mozarteum” and is world-renowned; its proper name is simply "Großer Saal."

The original 100-rank grand concert hall organ was built by the Austrian firm Rieger in 1914.

In 2010 a new 50-stop tracker action organ was installed by Hermann Eule Orgelbau, Bautzen, and the 1914 façade for the instrument was reconstructed.