Mozart Week

The Salzburg Mozart Week is one of the world’s great classical music festivals — an annual celebration of extraordinary depth and quality held each January in the city of Mozart’s birth. From January 22 to February 1, 2026, world-famous orchestras, conductors and soloists present over forty concerts across Salzburg’s most beautiful venues: the Großes Festspielhaus, the Mozarteum, the Felsenreitschule and intimate chamber halls where the music feels as immediate and alive as it must have done in Mozart’s own time. An absolute must for classical music lovers and Mozart fans — tickets are in high demand and early booking is strongly advised.

The concert programme during Mozart Week is chosen to show the full range of Mozart’s genius — from the sublime late symphonies and piano concertos to the chamber music, the piano sonatas, the sacred works and the operas. The artists who perform here are among the very finest in the world of classical music, and the combination of great interpretations with the particular intimacy of Salzburg’s concert venues creates an experience of listening that is genuinely different from concerts in larger, more anonymous settings. This is music at the highest possible level, in the most perfectly appropriate possible place.

Salzburg in January has its own particular magic — the baroque city in its winter coat, the rivers dusted with snow, the Christmas lights still strung across the old town streets, and the cafés warm and welcoming against the Alpine cold. Mozart’s birthplace on the Getreidegasse and his residence on Makartplatz are among the great musical heritage sites in all of Europe, and visiting them in the context of attending Mozart Week concerts adds a biographical dimension to the musical experience that is uniquely available here.

From Hallstatt Hideaway, Salzburg is just forty-five minutes away — making it entirely feasible to attend several concerts during Mozart Week while enjoying the peace and natural beauty of a lakeside retreat between performances. The combination of world-class classical music in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities, followed by the return to the serene Hallstätter See, is an experience that defines the very finest of what a stay in the Salzkammergut region can offer in the winter season.