The Mozart Festivals which were long an annual August feature at Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace, will hereafter be held at Baden-Baden earlier in the Summer. The reasons are practical. Salzburg was exquisitely appropriate, a quaint, ancient city in beautiful hill country. But it was awkward to get down to that section of Austria by rail, and Salzburg offered only mediocre accommodations for assembled tourists.
Baden-Baden, long a favorite resort for sports and the baths, is a city of hotels and railroad facilities. The year's Mozart Festival was held there in June. People railroaded...