In an unprecedented collaboration, the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg and the Morgan Library & Museum have partnered to tell the story of the life and career of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Objects from the Salzburg collections will cross the Atlantic for the first time, including Mozart’s own clavichord and violin, as well as famous portraits, letters, and personal objects of Mozart and his family. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg also draws from the Morgan’s extensive collections of music manuscripts, letters, and first editions that feature the forms in which Mozart was preeminent: symphony, piano concerto, and opera. Evoking the cities, homes, and people that shaped the composer, the exhibition highlights Mozart’s many travels, continual quest for employment and renown, family tensions, and constant creative output amid frequent illness and other challenges. It also illustrates Mozart’s existence under aristocratic patronage, a context both foreign and familiar to modern viewers.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg is on view at the Morgan from March 13 through May 31, 2026.