Mozart's violin

Supposedly this violin was once owned by Mozart

Salzburg 2022

July 6th 2022
A short visit in Salzburg When we were in southern Germany it struck us that our 9-Euro-Tickets actually allowed us to travel to Salzburg in Austria. Emma really wanted to go there because she had never visited that city. Ake had visited Salzburg once before. But that was 35 years ago so he barely remembered anything so he was also OK with going there. Here follows our story from the ... read more

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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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Mozart's Violin
What happened to his piano?

11th February 2023

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Good question
My guess is that things that are important today, such as "memorabilia" and "provenance", were less important in the 18th century. Probably much of his belongings were sold off at auctions or were taken care of by relatives. Later people had no idea of them once being owned by Mozart. Or maybe Smithonian Institution bought it all his belongings and have them in a museum in Washington DC... /Ake

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