Mozart Haus, 1st floor - Mozart’s apartment

Arriving at Mozart’s apartment, visitors enter the most atmospheric and personal area in the building - the rooms in which Mozart and his family actually lived. The apartment was, in fact, the largest, most elegant and most expensive one that Mozart ever lived in and the only apartment in Vienna that still exists. It consists of four large rooms, two small ones and a kitchen. Mozart lived there from the end of September 1784 until the end of April 1787. During these two and a half years he wrote some of his key works, including The Marriage of Figaro. The apartment has been open to the public in various arrangements for more than 60 years. In these narrow confines, exhibitions of the past have attempted to present as much of Mozart as possible. The Mozarthaus Vienna now has two additional floors providing information about Vienna, Mozart and his music in general. In contrast to earlier incarnations, the focus in Mozart’s apartment is now therefore exclusively directed on the time that Mozart actually spent living there. This period is approached by asking the central question: how did Mozart and his family live and work in these rooms?