Biography | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — The Figaro Rooms at Domgasse 5

People look for Figaro at the Burgtheater, where the opera opened. The work was written in this flat. Domgasse 5, then also numbered Schulerstrasse 8, stands behind Stephansdom. In Mozart's day the door he used faced Schulerstrasse. That entrance was later walled up for a shop. Visitors now come in from Domgasse. On the Michaeli rent term of 29 September 1784, Wolfgang and Constanze Mozart took the first-floor apartment in the Camesina house. Wien Geschichte Wiki dates the tenancy from 1 October 1784 to Georgi, 24 April 1787. It was four rooms, two cabinets and a kitchen. The rent was 450 gulden a year, the largest and dearest lodging he ever held in Vienna. It is the only one of those rooms that still stands. Leopold Mozart stayed here from 11 February to 21 April 1785. Joseph Haydn heard three of the quartets later dedicated to him in this apartment in February 1785. Le nozze di Figaro was composed in these rooms. The first night was 1 May 1786 at the Burgtheater, not here. The house is still called the Figarohaus because the score left this floor. A son, Thomas Leopold, was born here on 18 October 1786 and died at one month. The piano concertos in D minor, C major, E-flat, A major and C minor also belong to this tenancy. The rooms opened as a memorial in stages from 1941. Wien Holding rebuilt the house as Mozarthaus Vienna and reopened it on 27 January 2006. Nothing of Mozart's own furniture survives. The stucco in the alcove does. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Mozarthaus Vienna, Domgasse 5