Austria celebrates 250 years since Mozart's birth
27/01/2006 - 09:53:32One Salzburg hotel piped Beethoven through its intercom today, but it was mostly Mozart in the cobblestoned and turreted city of his birth on the 250th birthday party for its favourite son.
The world prepared to join in the celebration. Symphony orchestras and opera houses worldwide planned performances of his works, while classical music programme radio hosts lined up their Mozart CDs.
Piano students scheduled Mozart marathons and puppeteers untangled their strings as hundreds of cities across five continents prepared to pay their diverse respects to the musical genius and the more than 600 musical works he wrote.
