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The Austrian public art installation heist is not the first time miniature statues of composers have been stolen.

Early last month, as part of a year-long celebration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 270th birthday, his hometown of Salzburg, Austria, unveiled a sprawling public tribute to their beloved composer: 320 miniature golden statuettes featuring the musician and his favorite pup, Pimperl.

Mozart, with his reputation for rebellious flair and distaste for authority, may have gotten a chuckle out of what happened next. Within hours of the installation’s debut, at least two statuettes were stolen. This number grew to roughly 80 over the next several weeks. On Wednesday morning, officials announced that 210 statuettes were missing.

The installation, titled Mozart—The Untamable Genius, stretched across numerous locations in Salzburg, including the grounds of Mozart’s former residence, the Magic Flute Pavilion and within the greenery of the Mozarteum, the nearly 200-year-old home of Mozart’s library and archives.

“This offers a unique opportunity to inspire guests from all over the world beyond museum walls and to provide access to Mozart’s work on an entirely new level,” Linus Klumpner, managing director of the Mozarteum Foundation, says in a statement.

Most of the statues—each standing less than 20 inches tall and made of weather-resistant polymers—were placed in Mirabell Gardens, where the musician enjoyed taking his dog for long walks. “I didn’t want to do a monument of Mozart. There are already enough of these,” Ottmar Hörl, the German conceptual artist who created the artworks, told the Associated Press’ Philipp Jenne in July. “But I wanted to show his human side, that he was a normal human being despite his genius.”

“The worst thing for an artist is when his work dissolves,” says Hörl, according to Deutsche Welle’s Richard Connor. “This is organized theft. I find it a bit cheeky.”

Hörl went on to speculate that the thief or thieves likely carried out the heist under the cover of night, after the buildings had all closed. The artist has first-hand experience with such crimes—in 2023, his installation of 100 miniature Richard Wagner statuettes, placed in front of Germany’s Bayreuth Festival Theatre, also disappeared under mysterious circumstances, Artnet’s Jo Lawson-Tancred reported at the time.

Each Mozart statuette is worth roughly $100, putting the value of the loss around $23,000. Hörl had planned to sell the figures after the exhibition, of which the outdoors portion is now closed. Roughly 110 statuettes remain on view, and 100 more sit in reserve—too few, organizers decided, to scale the exhibition back up. Compounding difficulties, and as was the case with the Wagner theft, is the fact that the factory which manufactures the statuettes is closed for summer break. 

“That’s just the nature of public space,” Hörl tells dpa. “When you work as an artist in a public space, you mustn’t complain about what is happening there. It ranges from destruction to theft. That’s just how it is.”

Not all of Hörl’s many serial statuette installations have been affected by thefts. Exhibitions of 1,000 Caroline Mathildes, 250 Johann Wolfgang von Goethes and 100 Friedrich Schillers have gone on without a hitch.

Meanwhile, Salzburg will continue to honor Mozart, whose 270th birthday was celebrated on January 27. The annual Mozart Week, set to run next January 21 through 31 in Salzburg, will feature a new staging of the composer’s famed Così fan tutte opera. 

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Salieri isnt just a bad guy or an antagonist, he represents all of us mediocre people who subjugate our life to needing to feel like we belong rather than living it alongside the truth. Mediocre people build their opinion based on how others react to it, based on what is popular, based on what feels safe to believe and what does not alienate us from society. Genius stands on its own, judging and critiquing not based on the opinions of others or what is popular, but based on what is and what should be. People like music because of cultural connections, because of collective expression, or because it makes them feel validated. Genius doesnt, it stands on its own two feet and judges purely on what is. We dont like that. We mediocre people try to destroy opinions and works that make us question our opinions and where we stand. We use our ability to belong to a group based on bending our views to the group as a way to climb socially, which we do, and we use that social power to stay at the top. Salieri can talk to the emperor, navigate the aristrocacy, move people and wins the battle not based on his ability to make music, but his ability to belong. That is why at the end of the movie he proclaims himself the “patron saint of mediocrity” and he says “I absolve you, absolve you all”. He represents us, the mediocre nobodies who abuse human social structures to remain in power even when others are able to connect us to god, destroying those who bring beauty. The whole movie is making that point, the fact that we all suck.

Considering his early death and what might have been, I wondered at what point in history would medical science have advanced to the point where, with treatment, Mozart might have survived his health crisis in the winter of 1791.

The answer to that question is the 1940s. Penicillin, which could have treated his strep infection was available from 1941 and the first successful dialysis which could have treated his renal failure took place in 1943-45.

Reading Mozarts Briefe (letters) and enjoying the insight into his sense of humor, his love for his family including the much maligned father. I very much recommend the collection of his many and often lengthy descriptions of his travels and his creative process.

As someone who is neurodivergent i’m just curious what y’all think

Personally I would go for die Zauberflöte or die Entführung aus dem Serail. Especially love the (mostly masonic) symbolism in die Zauberflöte.

Again and always amazed how much beauty can pour out of one man while listening to CD 13 of my collection Mozart Complete Edition.

In case you missed it, click here for the direct link.

I was told they only leave recordings up for a month, though I’d be happy if they left it up longer.

I wish the recording spaced them out a little more but Mozart’s music is legitimately exquisite. You can hear his “voice” come through clearly. The pieces complement the Flute and Harp Concerto so well. I listened to them a lot ever since they came out and they make me wish more of his lost music would be found, like his Trumpet Concerto and also his lost (Violon)cello Concerto.

Yes, you know what Im talking about. The haunting music in the minor keys sprinkled throughout his career.

What actually got me into Mozart originally in my youth was not "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" it was the Requiem and Symphony No. 40

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe knew this dark side of Mozart's music, Beethoven loved it, the philosopher Kierkegaard loved Don Giovanni.

That ending is also so spectacular, bold and outrageous.

The Piano Concerto No. 20 is another one together with this very beautiful early piece, the Andante from Piano Concerto No. 4

This is young Mozart in his early teens composing a fragile melancholic piece in G minor. A delicious little nocturnal serenade in the second movement from his first Flute Quartet (1777), this is Mozart in his early 20s in Mannheim.

Milos Forman's Amadeus (1986) alluded to this side of him as well.

I received the gift of 170 Mozart cds, but besides them being grouped by symphonies, concertos, serenades, chamber music etc. there is no numerical sequence. Does anybody know how they are ordered?

The Cleveland Orchestra’s latest release, just a few months old. Recorded in Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio. Highly recommended. Play it on a good audio system, loud, so you hear the elements. This album is a major treat. This release also contains Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major, K. 595, also quite excellent. Note: I’m primarily a Beethoven guy, but you gotta love the way Mozart twists a theme…

Well since we live in the modern world full of different interesting activities. I was thinking what if I just used his schedule and lack of sleep and focused on song writing. Maybe it would improve I know I like to exercise and have different responsibilities but I think that type of dedication would definitely and had improved musicians songwriting etc.

Incredible he was a poor sleeper and played piano most of the day and night writing music he was just in love with music that much.

Do you think, as I do, that Mozart's seven great string quartets - the six Haydn Quartets plus the D major Quartet, K. 499 - represent the finest music ever composed?

Of course, Western music still had a long way to develop. But considering the harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, and structural language available at the time, as well as the expressive possibilities of the string quartet itself, these works seem to me to represent the pinnacle of human compositional achievement.

They have everything: bliss, darkness, peace, sorrow, nobility, fear; intellectual curiosity and profound emotional expression; sonatas, fugues, variations and more; gorgeous counterpoints and beautiful melodies.

They expand the expressive range of Classical music itself to an extraordinary degree. At the time, nothing else - not symphonies, cantatas, operas, or any other form of chamber music - seems to me to have reached the same level.

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