A story’s end: Postcard from Mondsee

Spending time at Musiktage Mondsee is like living a Hollywood classical music fantasy. The wedding scene in The Sound of Music was filmed at Mondsee’s Basilica of Saint Michael, and at summer’s end for over 30 years the hills and valleys in the surrounding Salzkammergut have come alive with the sound of chamber music.

After the concerts in Mondsee Castle’s auditorium the musicians linger in the green room and then slowly make their way through the town’s one main street to a favourite cafe or restaurant where they can relax with colleagues and friends. In addition to the music, the natural recreational attractions in and around Mondsee – set against the Drachenwand and other gentle peaks of the neighbouring Alps – are plentiful and quietly spectacular, and each evening’s packed house of 300 audience members draws equally from Mondsee, Bavaria and the rest of Germany…