{"id":595532,"date":"2026-08-25T13:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/595532\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:20:10","slug":"the-strad-news-two-of-mozarts-instruments-to-go-on-tour-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/595532\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strad News – Two of Mozart\u2019s instruments to go on tour in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two original violins that belonged to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will accompany the Bella Musica Pre-College Ensemble of Mozarteum University Salzburg.<\/p>\n

Both Mozart\u2019s childhood violin and his concert violin will be presented and played during the tour\u2019s four performances in Rome in September 2026. The children\u2019s violin\u00a0was made by the Austrian luthier Andreas Ferdinand Mayr around 1746, while the concert violin was crafted by\u00a0Pietro Antonio Dalla Costa of Treviso in 1764.<\/p>\n

The instruments are part of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg. They will be heard in performances from 2\u20136 September, including a concert recording for Vatican Radio in the Vatican Gardens that will be broadcast via the European Broadcasting Union. The ensemble will also be invited to a general audience with Pope Leo XIV.<\/p>\n

Founded in 2017, the Bella Musica chamber ensemble of the Pre-College at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg brings together young musical talents aged 10 to 22. Under the artistic direction of Stefan David Hummel, the musicians rehearse works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and other composers during the annual orchestra camp and then perform in a European tour. In 2026, the project was included in the Atlas of Good Teaching by the Austrian Federal Ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read more news stories here\u00a0 Two original violins that belonged to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will accompany the Bella…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-595532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}