Mozart's childhood violin and original manuscripts come to the Morgan Library

Walter Wuthmann

Published Mar 15, 2026

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Walter Wuthmann

Published Mar 15, 2026

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Some of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's personal belongings are crossing the Atlantic for the first time as part of a new exhibition in Manhattan.

Visitors to the Morgan Library & Museum will be able to view the clavichord the composer used to write “The Magic Flute,” as well as his childhood violin.

“Mozart’s influence is still heard everywhere today, from piano lessons and concerts to children’s rhymes,” Morgan Library Director Colin Bailey said in a release. “The exhibition will offer visitors an unprecedented opportunity to engage with the life and work of an artist whose music they recognize and hold dear.”

The items are from the collections of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, where Mozart was born in 1756. Curators said this is the first time many of the instruments, portraits and manuscripts will be seen in the United States.

“Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg” is open at the Morgan Library & Museum and runs until the end of May.

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