Austria’s souvenir Mozartkugeln will no longer be made in composer’s home city after factory bankruptcy

Visitors to Salzburg can hardly escape merchandise linked to its favourite son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with T-shirts, golf balls and Playmobil figures in the composer’s image cluttering the gift stores and airport duty-free shops.

But the Austrian city has just lost its exclusive claim to the most beloved souvenir of all – bite-size foil-wrapped Mozart chocolates bearing the musical prodigy’s bewigged likeness.