In the paradise of the sound artists
Take a musical journey through time in Schwetzingen.
In the 18th century, the Mannheim court with its summer residence in Schwetzingen employed a number of outstanding musicians during the reign of Elector Carl Theodor. Their interaction was unique and impressed contemporaries. People travelled from all over to experience the musicians of the Mannheim court. For example, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who first came to Schwetzingen in 1763 as a seven-year-old child prodigy in the circle of his family and then in 1777 and 1790 as a conductor and musician.
"The Elector Palatine lives in his paradise Schwezingen ... as pleasurable as princes can be ... Walks in his magic garden, reading in the best writings of various languages, conversation with people of taste, manners and erudition, and every evening music in the bathhouse, or concert, or opera, in German, French and - thank heaven! also in German."
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart