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__**2. A DREAMING PLACE**__ [|Movi localitions] ** Mirabell Gardens ** You can see this gardens where Maria and the children are dancing and singing ‘Do-Re-Mi’ song around the statue of Pegasus.
 * **__Sound of Music Tour__**

** Leopoldskron Castle ** We can see more parts of this castle in the film how the front of the castle which was used for the house of family Von Trapp, we see the lake Leopoldoskron too and there is a one room of the castle and in the film we see how ballroom. ** Hellbrunn Castle ** This castle was built in 17th by Prince-Archbishop Markus Sittikus. The gardens the glass pavillion was reconstructed



** Nonnberg Abbey ** This is the convent where Maria was a nun. We can see this in the film when Maria is late to pray.

** St.Gilgen and Lake Wolfgang ** We can see this scenery in the beginning of the film how the Lake Fuschl on the way to St.Gilgen. The entire tourist likes this scenery. ** Wedding C **** hurch Mondsee ** In Mondsee Cathedral the film was the wedding between Maria and the captain Von Trapp.

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In the actually, this film is a famous musical which is performed in the theaters. Salzburg in the actually has a lot of tourism as the film was shoted in this city. __**THE CAST**__ __**[|Sound of music today]**__ In the actually cast of the sound of music there are usually two or more actors by character. These are some examples:
 * **SOUND OF MUSIC TODAY**
 * **Maria** || Verity Rushworth ||
 * **Alternate Maria** || Philippa Buxton ||
 * **Captain Georg von Trapp** || Jason Donovan ||
 * **Liesl** || Claire Fishenden ||
 * **Friedrich** || Elliott Allinson ||
 * **Friedrich** || Thomas Huttlestone ||
 * **Friedrich** || Matt Najair ||
 * **Louisa** || Jessica Adair ||
 * **Louisa** || Emily Hart ||
 * **Louisa** || Hollie Steel ||
 * **Kurt** || Jonathan Loades ||
 * **Kurt** || Max Weitzman ||
 * **Kurt** || Ben Westhead ||
 * **Brigitta** || Peonie Gage ||
 * **Brigitta** || Megan Keast ||
 * **Brigitta** || Isabella Riley ||
 * **Marta** || Amy Boyd ||
 * **Marta** || Aisling Flaherty ||
 * **Marta** || Rebecca Jo Roberts ||
 * **Gretl** || Jaime Adler ||
 * **Gretl** || Madeline Banbury ||
 * **Gretl** || Jasmine Hood ||

[|Information about Salzburg] **__1. DESCRIPTION__** It’s a city of Austria and it’s near of Germany. It has 150,269 habitants so it’s the 4TH city with more habitants and his area is 65.678 km2. In Salzburg, there are a lot of important places so a lot of person visit it. Some important places are the castles, Mozart’s house, churches… in Salzburg there is the “Salzburg festival” which is a classic music and ballet festival.
 * **__Salzburg__**

**Temperature**
 * = ** Months **  ||=  ** Temperature **  ||=  ** water by mm/month **  ||
 * = **January**  ||=  2,6  ||=  63  ||
 * = **February**  ||=  4,7  ||=  59  ||
 * = **March**  ||=  9,6  ||=  66  ||
 * = **April**  ||=  14,2  ||=  83  ||
 * = **May**  ||=  18,9  ||=  129  ||
 * = **June**  ||=  21,7  ||=  154  ||
 * = **July**  ||=  23,7  ||=  160  ||
 * = **August**  ||=  23,4  ||=  153  ||
 * = **September**  ||=  20  ||=  90  ||
 * = **October**  ||=  14,6  ||=  67  ||
 * = **November**  ||=  7,7  ||=  74  ||
 * = **December**  ||=  3,3  ||=  71  ||

**LANGUAGE** The language of Austria is German, and the Austro-Bavarian which is a dialect of this territory.

**2.__IMPORTANT PERSON OF SALZBURG __**
 * ** Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart **was a composer and he played piano.
 * ** Johann Michael Haydn ** was the brother of Haydn the composer.
 * **Leopold Mozart** was the father of Wolfgang Amadeus.
 * **Herbert von Karajan** was an orchestra director.
 * ** Georg Trakl **was a poet.
 * ** Thomas Bernhard **was a writer.
 * ** Christian Doppler **was a mathematician.
 * ** Paul Hofhaimer **was an Austrian organis and composer.
 * **Hans Makart** w as a painter.
 * ** Joseph Messner **was a musician and composer.
 * ** Sigismund von Neukomm** was an Austrian composer and pianist.[[image:http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTZvlm6AsbenfkMPittwpgpDizFHz7M1wpYXDdMrB3atZaVTVn33wt9OA width="124" height="81" align="right" caption="He is Nicolás Kasanzex, a journalist." link="http://www.google.es/imgres?imgurl=http://www.lahistoriaparalela.com.ar/umedia/images/Nicolas-Kasanzew-libro-Malvinas.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.lahistoriaparalela.com.ar/2010/04/01/nicolas-kasanzew-en-c5n-hoy-a-las-23-hrs/&usg=__PDZSx_or_EHtsau5LbBxZarBqC4=&h=259&w=395&sz=28&hl=es&start=3&zoom=1&tbnid=Z6AvP9ZVFx6I1M:&tbnh=81&tbnw=124&ei=49WLT6qGDoaYhQfcn8HmCQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3DNicol%25C3%25A1s%2BKasanzew%26um%3D1%26hl%3Des%26sa%3DN%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1"]]
 * ** Bartholomäeus Riedl **was Classical music composer
 * ** Mönch von Salzburg **was a song writer
 * ** Paracelso **was a doctor but he wasn’t born in Salzburg.
 * ** Nicolás Kasanzew **was a journalist.

**3.** **__THE CITY OF SALZBURG IN THE FILM__** The film of “the sound of music” was shot in Salzburg. These are the locations where the film was shot:

v __The Benedictine Convent on Nonnberg__: it is here that nuns sing 'Maria' v __Mirabell Gardens and Mirabell Palace:__ Maria and the children sing 'Do-Re-Mi' v __Residenz Square and Residenz Fountain:__ Maria crosses Residenz square in a bus on her way from Nonnberg Convent to the Trapp Villa singing 'I have confidence in me' v __Felsenreitschule:__ here, the Trapp Family performed its farewell song and Baron von Trapp sang Edelweiss v __St. Peter's Cemetery:__ it was here that the dramatic flight scenes were filmed v __Leopoldskron Palace__: the façade facing the lake represented the von Trapp residence v __The Sound of Music Pavillon__: can be found at Hellbrunn Palace today, in the movie it was still located at Leopoldskron Palace. One of the most famous and romantic scenes was filmed here: 'I am 16 going on 17' v __Frohnburg Palace:__ courtyard and main front were used as a backdrop v __Other scenes__ where filmed outside of the city, for example at Anif Palace, Hohenwerfen Castles, Mondsee, Fuschl, St. Gilgen and Lake Wolfgang.


 * **W.A. MOZART**

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27 of 1756 in Salzburg. He had six brothers and sisters. His parents were leopold Mozart and Anna Maria Walpurga who was of St. Gilgen near Salzburg. He was a prodigy of music playing piano and a very good songwriter. Now, he is one of the most influential musicians of the history of classicism.



Mozart and his wife travelled to Salzburg and to Prage to listen some operas. His last compositions were La Clemenza di Tito and Magic Flute. Mozart died in Prague the 5 of December of 1791 with 35 years old because he has a heated military fever. Mozart was an excellet musician, composer and director.

His music was classic music but he started to composed music in the baroque. He wrote concerts, symphonies, operas… He was a prodigy of music because he was handy playing instruments. When he travelled he met Bach who help him with his music. Haydn help him too. =__**HIS PLAYS**__= He composed 41sinphonies, some concerts, 61 march and 22 operas. He wrote his first play with eight years old. His first plays wre influyed by Italian music. Some plays:
 * Symphony No.40[]
 * Symphony No. 9. []
 * Don Giovanni . []
 * Così fan tutte. []
 * The Marriage of Figaro. []
 * Clemenza di Tito. []
 * Magic Flute. []

**Edelweiss**

It is a song which in The Sound of Music. It is singing by the family von Trapp during the concert near the end and this song is very symbolic for Austria. Edelweiss is a white flower which find high in the Alps. This flower grows up in small groups in alpine meadows and it can grow on the rocks, not more than 10cm in height. The size of the flowers can be between 2.5 and 10 centimeters. The flowers seem fragile but it isn`t true because it can survive to 3,000 meters and the extreme temperatures of the mountains. Symbolic uses:
 * **Song**
 * **Flower**
 * On the Austrian euro coins, a picture of Edelweiss is used on the two-euro-cent coins.
 * It is also the symbol of the Swiss national tourism organization.
 * In Austria, //Edelweiß// is also a brand of beer named after the flower.
 * The Edelweiss was established 1907 as the sign of the Austrian-Hungarian alpine troops by Emperor Franz Joseph.