Thus began, with a concert in Church of San Marco on December 26th of that year, the great connection between the great composer from Salzburg and this town in Val Lagarina, referred to in the XVIIIth century in the same breath as Vienna, Salzburg and Milan. The link runs deep, and its most important result has been the birth of a music Festival entirely dedicated to Mozart.

The Rovereto Mozart Festival began in 1987, driven by the town's desire to record forever the presence of the great Salzburg composer, exalting the very places where he stayed and played, and the local authority's desire to make the Val Lagarina - a border country and meeting point - once more a place in which to meld diverse sensibilities.

Rovereto's lively, caring cultural structure - birthplace of some the last century's greatest Italian artists - Fortunato Depero to name but one - has favoured the flourishing growth of the event. Over the years the Festival has become a point of reference in the European concert and music field, destination for music lovers from around the world and host to some of its greatest musicians.