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The Baroque Salzburg of Scamozzi and his successors was grafted onto an earlier, medieval city of narrow streets and squat town houses, and it's this that first hits tourists flowing into the Altstadt over the Staatsbrucke , main crossing point over the River Salzach. After passing under the archway of the fifteenth-century Rathaus , a right turn leads into the pedestrianized Getreidegasse , Salzburg's busiest thoroughfare, lined with opulent boutiques and characterized by overhanging wrought-iron shop signs. At no. 9 is Mozarts Geburtshaus (daily: July & Aug 9am-7pm; Sept-June 9am-5.30pm; oS70/?5.09), where the musical prodigy lived for the first seventeen years of his life. This crowded and rather sterile collection of musical manuscripts and original instruments isn't necessarily the best introduction to Mozart (Salzburg's other Mozart museum, the Gewohnhaus, adopts a more thorough, chronological approach to the man and his music), but many people with a strong interest in the composer or musicianship in general will thrill to the sight of some of the artefacts on show here, such as the baby-sized violin Mozart used as a small child. Among the more touching family portraits on show is Johann Nepomuk della Croce's 1781 painting of Wolfgang and sister Nannerl playing the piano together, with a picture of their (by then, dead) mother hanging on the wall behind them.
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