Dancing Master's House, Historic site and apartment building at Makartplatz, Salzburg, Austria

The Tanzmeisterhaus, also called Mozart's Residence, is a long, plain two- to three-storey building at Makartplatz 8. It was first documented in 1617 and is a protected monument. Two-thirds of it was destroyed by aerial bombs in 1944; the surviving part holds the Tanzmeistersaal, whose late-18th-century stucco was restored in 1956/57. Since 1996 the house has been a Mozart museum with instruments and documents from 1773 to 1780.

The building was constructed as a residence in the early 1700s and took its name from dance lessons held there for Salzburg's social circles. A family of musicians later lived there for several decades, making the place a well-known meeting point.

The name Tanzmeisterhaus comes from the court dance master Johann Lorenz Spöckner, who received permission in 1711 to teach dance to nobles in the house on what was then Hannibalplatz. His son Franz Gottlieb Spöckner, who inherited the house in 1739, was best man at Leopold Mozart's wedding to Anna Maria Pertl on 21 November 1747. The Mozart family moved into the first-floor apartment only in 1773, six years after Franz Gottlieb's death.

The museum occupies the first floor of the building at Makartplatz 8, a few minutes' walk from Mozart's Birthplace across the Salzach. The Tanzmeistersaal, where the late 18th-century stucco was restored in 1956/57, is the core of the visit; the Zauberflötenhäuschen stands in the courtyard, rebuilt there after 2022. Allow time for the instrument collection and documents.

In the courtyard stands the Zauberflötenhäuschen, a wooden pavilion where Mozart is said to have composed parts of The Magic Flute. It was first set up beside the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, moved to Salzburg's Kapuzinerberg in 1877, stood in the Mozarteum courtyard from 1950 to 2022, and was then rebuilt here after restoration.