Trentino and Alto Adige

Mozart was four times the guest of the Pizzini brothers in the years 1771-73.

birthplace of the composer Riccardo Zandonai (1883-1944); his best known work is the opera Francesco da Rimini.

Grave of Riccardo Zandonai (family grave), †1944 in Pesaro.

Monument of Riccardo Zandonai.

Opened in 1784 with an opera by Cimarosa, but few operas today. Concerts.  The  authentic furniture and fittings of the 'Zandonai room' in the Museo Civico have been moved to this nice theatre.

The local library, a fine baroque palace, houses the Zandonai archive. 

In the former Albergo della Rosa, Mozart stayed 24-27.XII.1769 (plaque not for Mozart).

In this palace was the first appearance of Mozart in Italy, on Christmas day 1769.

Mozart played the organ on 26.XII.1769.  The then organ didn't survive.

In this beautiful park, two mock grave stones of Mozart and a little Mozart temple with his portrait were erected in 1825-31 by Giuseppe Antonio Bridi, a fervent admirer of the composer.

Giacomo Puccini was a guest on a hunting party in the surrounding mountains, held to his honour in July 1897.

The seven Trent Codices are considered the most important body of 15^th century polyphony.

The Trent Council (1545-62) was also concerned with church music and instigated a reform, propagating purity and intelligibility, rejecting profane influences.

Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672-1749) was born here and worked from 1695 to1740 in Trent.

Church of the 'Trent Council' (1560s), influential debates about the state and future of the church music. The organ by 'Maestro Caspar' from 1536. which Händel is said to have played, was destroyed in 1719.

Theatre from 1819 with 676 seats. It was opened with Rossini's La Cenerentola and Puccini attended in 1893 an early performance of his Manon Lescaut, but today less opera performances than in the past. 

Modern concert hall with 840 seats. Home of the Bolzano/Trento Haydn Orchestra.

Former Augusteo cinema, newly designed as concert hall and inaugurated in 2000; main hall 641 seats, small hall 110 seats. Home of the Bolzano/Trento Haydn Orchestra.  

Opened in 1999, two halls (802 and 214 seats), architect Marco Zanuso.

The palazzo housed a lively opera theatre from 1805 until 1906 and the hotel Kaiserkrone (the town after all belonged to the Austrian region of Tyrol).

Birthplace of famous MinnesängerOswald von Wolkenstein °ca. 1377. The castle is not publicly accessible.

Wolkenstein  castle

Wolkenstein  castle

Wall paintings about Wolkenstein's life (inside)

Near a playground is the house of Oswald von Wolkenstein between 1411 and 1445 - the oldest extant composer's house in this website!

Wolkenstein's grave on the former cemetery between Cathedral and St. Michael

Mozart appeared on 12.XII.1771 before 'Domherr' Count Spaur

former 'Schwarzer Adler'  -  Mozart stayed here 11-13.XII.1771

Mahler stayed here in the summers of 1908-10. The composing hut, in which Das Lied von der Erde was written, has survived and is accessible. In 1907 he stayed temporally in Neuschluderbach-Carbonim.