Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg

The orchestra gives concerts in several Salzburg venues, including the Großes Festspielhaus, the Great Hall of the Stiftung Mozarteum.

The ensemble was founded in 1841 with the help of Mozart’s sons Franz Xaver and Karl Thomas, as well as his widow Constanze, under the musical direction of Alois Taux.

[4][5] During the 1970s and 80s, the Mozarteum Orchestra recorded Mozart's complete early operas (Apollo et Hyacinthus, Bastien und Bastienne, Mitridate, re di Ponto, Ascanio in Alba, Il sogno di Scipione, Lucio Silla, La finta giardiniera, Il re pastore) with Leopold Hager on Deutsche Grammophon, later reissued on Philips for the Complete Mozart Edition.

They recorded the complete Mozart symphonies, under the direction of Hans Graf for Capriccio in separate volumes, but then gathered into a full box set.

They worked primarily for Deutsche Grammophon, with the Mozart operas and a majority of the concert arias, in cooperation with artists such as Edita Gruberová, Lucia Popp, Edith Mathis, Hanna Schwarz, Thomas Moser and Walter Berry.