The Vienna Mozart Orchestra was founded in 1986 by young musicians from various orchestras and chamber ensembles in Vienna with the aim of performing music from the Viennese classical period, with particular emphasis on the music of Mozart. The orchestra has in its repertoire all the symphonies of Mozart and the various concertos for violin, piano and wind instruments.

A special feature of concerts given by the Vienna Mozart Orchestra is the use of historical costumes by the players and the presentation of programmes very much in the style of the academies or concerts of Mozart’s time, in which movements of symphonies might be interspersed with operatic arias.