The Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation is a non-profit organization whose primary focus has been the life and œuvre of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. The organisation offers concerts, maintains the Mozart museums (Mozart’s Birthplace and Mozart Residence) and supports academic research. The foundation was founded in 1880 by citiziens of the town of Salzburg and has its roots in the “Dom-Musik”Verein und Mozarteum” [Cathedral music society and Mozarteum] from 1841. Since then, as a non-profit organisation it has made a study of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s life and work