US EditionWar for the Mozart Ball: Who Really Invented It?
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The Confiserie Holzermayr wants to deny the confectionery Fürst the invention of the Mozartkugel, an old advertisement from the "Presse" is supposed to prove this. A struggle for the name, the product and the question, what the term original means in the classic Salzburg sweetness.
Only the Fürst confectionery in Salzburg is allowed to use the name Original Salzburger Mozartkugeln and to this day these pralines are still made by hand according to the original recipe. The confectionery boasts that the confectionery named after the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was first created by the confectioner Paul Fürst in 1890. Ammerer said that he found an advertisement in the newspaper Die Presse on February 3, 1881, according to…
A new controversy could erupt in Austria over the authorship of the famous Mozartkugeln chocolate pralines. Historian Gerhard Ammerer, who is writing a book about the pralines, claims to have found an advertisement in the archives that casts doubt on the claim that confectioner Paul Fürst was the first to create them, the APA agency reports.
The Mozart ball is probably something that comes to mind for the most people when it comes to Salzburg. But now a new dispute about who invented the original has flared up. This could even have legal consequences.
The Konditorei Fürst sells the "Original Salzburg Mozartkugel" and advertises with the invention by the ancestors Paul Fürst in 1890. The historian Gerhard Ammerer, who writes on a book about the Mozartkugel, however, discovered an advertisement in the daily newspaper "Die Presse" on 3 February 1881 about the "Salzburger Spezialität Mozartkugeln - handcrafted by R. Baumann, Conditor, Salzburg. Even a shipping of the speciality had been advertise…
According to historians, an archive find should prove the earlier production of the traditional ball.
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