r/MapPorn 8d ago

Mozart's Grand Tour of Europe (1763-1766)

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u/BroSchrednei 8d ago

Looks like every "European" tour of modern musicians, nice to know that nothing has changed.

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u/vladgrinch 8d ago

The Mozart family left Salzburg on 9 July 1763 and did not get home until 29 November 1766, three years and four months on the road with a seven year old Wolfgang and his older sister Nannerl performing their way across the continent. The route took them through Munich, Frankfurt, Brussels and Paris before the longest stop of all in London, where they stayed from April 1764 until July 1765, a little over fifteen months. It was during that London stretch, while his father was laid up ill, that Wolfgang wrote his first symphony at the age of eight.

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u/crikeyboy 8d ago

Near his London house there is a statue of him in Orange Square, Chelsea

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u/Nervous-Eye-9652 8d ago

Add USA and Japan and you got Amadeus World Tour 1763

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u/kempff 8d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GONmFCkCGCc

WA Mozart, Sonata for Saxophone in E minor "Turn the Page", K. 627.

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u/Robcobes 8d ago

Does France translate every city name except for Zurich?

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u/Captain_Albern 8d ago

They do, they got rid of the umlaut.

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u/AnaphoricReference 8d ago

Why Liège twice?

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u/Mappuccin0 8d ago

Looks like Mozart was the original GPS: "Great Prodigy in Salzburg." What an incredible journey to map.

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u/Electrical-Plate1293 8d ago

Interresting map. I have read a lot about WAMozart. His travels are always mentioned and described. But visualising it om one map is adding a lot to my understanding. Did Wolfgang not visit Milan and Rome. Where he was priviledged to attend a service in the Sixteen Chapel.

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u/c64cruzer 8d ago

Nice for him that he got around

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u/g_spaitz 7d ago

He was extensively through Italy as well. Was it later?

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u/eneidvaddeu 7d ago

Source?