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Posted on 08/13/2026 1:58:23 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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.”
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I bet it was Salieri.
He’s alright. Beethoven’s better. Haydn, too.
I have a Mozart rubber ducky that I got in Salzburg. Actually I gave it to our son who is a musician.
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Mozart’s best friend was Pimp Earl.
The sculptor must hate Wolfy! The ones who sculpt those little busts of famous composers to place on your piano also hate them very very much. I have very good ones of Beethoven and Chopin, but they are rare, larger, and expensive.
Are these the little marble ones for Schroeder or the chocolate ones?
Schubert's and Schumann's was Pimp Daddy, who could fix you up with a case of syphilis faster than they could dash off a lieder about Jutta's jutting bosom.
This thread needs some Elizabeth berridge pics.
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