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In this baroque church the young Haydn played the organ on Sundays and ecclesiastical holidays during the years 1755-58, for a salary of 80 florins. The organ he played on has not survived.

In the former Hirschenhaus at the opposite side (nr. 17) Eduard Strauß, the youngest son of Strauß sr., was born in 1835. Father left the house in 1844, but his wife Anna kept it until her death in 1870.

House, built in 1824, of the music theorist and teacher of Bruckner, Simon Sechter.

Birthplace of Johann Strauß sr., °1804. The house Zum heiligen Florian was demolished in 1906.

Birthplace of the violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler, °1875.

House of Wilhelm Kienzl, from 1921 until his death in 1941. Popular opera Der Evangelimann. His wife organized reknowned Sunday matinees here.

House of Oscar Straus, creator of the operetta Ein Walzertraum. Not related to Strauß or Strauss.

House of Arnold Schönberg, c. 1898

Birthplace of Arnold Schönberg, °1874.

In the 17^th century laid out as an imperial pleasure garden, since 1775 open to the public. In the RestaurationsgebäudeMozart, Beethoven and Schubert appeared #T, FP of Beethoven’s Tripelkonzert and his Kreutzersonate. Later appearances by Liszt, Wagner,Lanner and Strauß.

Another building, the Augartenpalais, is the boarding school of the Wiener Sängerknaben ; they have the disposal of their own concert room.

Schönberg studied at this school, then a Realschule, from 1885 until 1891.

Later his teacher Zemlinsky lived at the opposite side, at nr. 26 (1893-96).

One of the houses of Johannes Brahms, 1862-63.

One of the houses of Johannes Brahms, 1862-63.

Birthplace of Alexander Zemlinsky, °1872; the family lived here until 1874.

House of Johann Strauß jr, living here 1863-70. An der schönen blauen Donau was written here. Now a museum with furniture of the composer.

The Prater, originally a hunting ground of the court, became a public park in 1766 and later a fairground. Music played an important role; Lanner and Strauß sr. began their career in the Prater. ─

Monument of Carl Michael Ziehrer, Hofballmusikdirektor and composer of dances and military music.

In the Pratermuseum many reminders of the old Prater and a Ziehrer room.

House in which Karl Goldmark died in 1915. His symphony Ländliche Hochzeit (rustic wedding) and his opera Die Königin von Saba (the queen of Sheba) still draw attention.

The author Elias Canetti lived in the same house from 1913 until 1916 and was a witness of Goldmark passing away.

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Birthplace of Anton Webern, °1883 (until 1890).Nearby the famous, fancifulHundertwasserhaus.

House of Alban Berg and his parents, 1908-11, the years preceding his marriage. Composition of his first works: Piano Sonata, 4 songs and String Quartet (op. 1-3).

Palace of Andreas Kyrillovich Rasumovskij, the Russian ambassador during the Vienna Congress. Benefactor of Beethoven. FP of the 5^th Symphony and of the quartets op. 59, written for him. ─

The gate on nr. 29 belonged to the house of the famous magnetizer Franz Anton Mesmer. The young Mozart appeared repeatedly; his Bastien und Bastienne was performed here for the first time (1768).

In the house Zur schönen Sklavin (nr. 5) Beethoven lived 1823-24 and finished the 9^th Symphony.─

At nr. 2 Johannes Brahms lived, 1869-71. House demolished; plaque from 1997, a gift of an admirer, around the corner (Linke Bahngasse 1).

Beethoven 1817, composition of the Sonate für das Hammerklavier. There are two plaques: one belonged to the original house, the other was placed after the demolition.

Hofballmusikdirektor Carl Michael Ziehrer died here in poor condition in 1922; his music became less popular after the fall of the Donaumonarchie.

In a summer-house Mozart lived during April-December 1787 and wrote Eine kleine Nachtmusik and parts of Don Giovanni. The summer-house and its rural surrounding area disappeared. Plaque in the present building (indoors).

Location of the Arenberg-Schlößl, in which Brahms was a guest with Richard and Marie Fellinger during his last years. At the Fellingers a curious phonograph recording was made of Brahms greeting Mr. Edison and playing one of his Hungarian dances; duration one minute, more surface noise than sound…

In the Privatheilanstalt für Gemüthskranke auf dem Erdberge (clinic for the mentally ill) Hugo Wolf was treated during the period September 1897-Januari 1898.

The twelve year old Mozart successfully conducted his Waisenhausmesse (KV 139)and Offertorium (KV 117) on 7.XII.1768, on the occasion of the consecration of this church.

Mozart was buried here on 7.XII.1791 in a communal grave and a monument was erected in 1859. After his remains and monument were moved to the Zentralfriedhof in 1891, a cemetery guard composed a new memorial stone out of remainders of abolished graves._

Besides Mozart, also Albrechtsberger, Diabelli and piano maker Andreas Streicher were buried here.

A monument was erected to the American jazz pianist and famous fusion artist Josef ‘Joe’ Zawinul, born in this area in 1917.

With the profit of Salome Richard Strauss had this villa built, it was his Vienna home from 1925 until 1949. Today the Strauss-Schlößlis the embassy of the Netherlands.

By permission of the court, Bruckner - unable to keep on climbing the stairs of his apartment (> 1.81) ─spent the last year of his life in the Kustodenstöckl (gatekeeper’s house) of the Oberes Belvedere. He died here on 11.X.1896, still working at his ninth symphony.

Vienna house of the composer Franz Schmidt, from 1923.

Birthplace of the favorite librettist of Richard Strauss, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, °1874.

On the nr. 8 of this street, Mahler’s brother-in-law Arnold Rosé lived.

Viennese pied-à-terre of the composer Josef Marx from 1915 until his death in 1964.

Vuk Karadžić was a Serbian philologist, collector of folksongs and the author of Gorni Venac, the main source of Montenegrin epic songs; he died in 1864 in this house, the successor of the inn Zu den zwey Tauben, for which Strauß sr. wrote his opus 1: Wiener Täuberlwalzerin 1826. Plaque for Karadžić.

House of Arnold Schönberg in 1918, shortly before he occupied his villa in Mödling (> at5.1304).

In the Palais Fanto the estate of Arnold Schönberg is administered and accessible for study purposes. Also exhibitions, concerts and other activities.>www.schoenberg.at

In 1913 the building of a large complex, intended to house a new concert hall and the music academy, was finished - just in time before the great war and the fall of the empire.

A first Konservatorium had been established in 1817 by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreundein their first accomodation at the Tuchlauben and in 1869 moved to the Musikverein; Wolf, Mahler, Zemlinsky and Berg studied there. More than once renamed, the present Universität has developed into one of the most important musical institutions: over 3000 students from all over the world study here.>www.mdw.ac.at

The concert hall next door formed in some respects a counterbalance to the Musikverein. Contemporary music was more welcomed, Anton Webern established special symphonic concerts for the working class. In 1921 two orchestras were merged into the present house ensemble, the Wiener Symphoniker. There are four concert halls of different sizes.>https://konzerthaus.at

At the entrance a Mahler plaque, mentioning that on the 7^th of June 1945 ─ a few weeks after the fall of the Nazis ─ his music was ‘given back to the Austrian cultural life’.

Also a plaque of Leonard Bernstein.

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At the baroque church of St. Carolus Borromaeus a plaque mentions the FP of Schubert’s Deutsche Messe in 1826. In the same church the funeral service of Anton Bruckner (1896) and the wedding of Gustav Mahler with Alma Schindler (1902) took place.

The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski spent the years 1909-13 in Vienna, frequently interrupted by journeys to Italy and Poland.

At the opposite side of Szymanowski’s house stands the monument to Gluck, hastily erected in 1938 near the town hall as substitute for a Jewishmonument. In 1945 this was reversed and so Gluck landed here, not far from where he had lived once.

On the walls of the Technical University there are three plaques of musical interest.

I: Before starting a musical career, Josef Strauß studied engineering here.

II: On the Armensünder Gottesacker, a cemetery for the poor, Antonio Vivaldi was buried in 1741 after his sudden death in a Viennese inn; it was dissolved and disappeared under the T.U.

III: An extension of the T.U. in 1905 required the demolition of the fine house of Johannes Brahms at Karlsgasse 4; he had lived here for a quarter century, from 1872 until his death in 1897. A part of the furnishings is on display in the Haydn museum (> 3.01).

In a museum about Viennese history, music can never be far away. Among the exhibits e.g. the former gravestone of Gluck, Beethoven’s original death mask, batons of Lanner and Strauß, paintings by Schönberg - including the famous portrait of his pupil Berg - and various composers’ portraits.

In 1896 Hugo Wolf moved in his first independent house, unfortunately only for a short time: next year he had to move into an asylum.

The large monument of Brahms by R. Weyr was erected in 1908.

The second picture shows a hooligans’ intervention in the 1990s.

House of the Rumanian violinist and composer George Enescu during his student years 1888-94.

Antonín Dvořák stayed for several times in the former inn Goldenes Lamm.

The parcel between Wiedner Hauptstraße and Operngassse is holy ground for music lovers. In the Freyhaustheater auf der WiedenMozart’s Zauberflöte was successfully performed for the first time in 1791; it was opened in 1787, closed in 1801 and demolished. In the meantime Emanuel Schikaneder organized here 350 theatre productions and various Akademien, e.g. Beethoven’s performances of his first and second piano concertos in 1798. The small summer house or cabin in which Mozart is said to have worked at the opera was transferred to Salzburg and lives on there as Zauberflötenhäuschen. Only a fresco and a window in the so-called Papagenohaus at the Operngasse reminds us of both buildings on this location.

Gustav Mahler lived at nr. 9, together with his friends Rudolf Krzyżanowski and Hugo Wolf during his student years 1877-78; the friendship with Wolf didn’t hold on.

Next door (nr. 7) their teacher Robert Fuchs died in 1927.

In this block, the former house Zum silbernen Löwen, two very different composers lived:

at nr. 32 Christoph Willibald von Gluck, from 1779 until 1789; in the same house Schubert was portrayed by the painter W.A.Rieder in 1825 - the most true to life portrait in his friends’ view.

At nr. 36 Jean Sibelius lived during his studies with Fuchs and Goldmark (1890-91).

House of the Hungarian operetta composer Imre (Emmerich) Kálmán from 1912 until 1923.

Viennese pied-à-terre of Richard Strauss from 1919 until 1925.

Nearby on the Mozartplatz the modern looking Mozartbrunnen from 1905 by Karl Wollek.

Jean Sibelius lived at nr 1 in 1890/91 in a large room, looking on the yard of the house. Beginning of the composition of Kullervo.

Nr 5 was the house of Hanns Eisler during his studies with Arnold Schönberg, 1919-23.

The Favoritawas in the 17^th and first decades of the 18^th century the summer residence of the court, with glorious feasts and also opera performances. The last opera was Zenobia by Predieri in 1740; in that year empress Maria Theresia turned the building in a gymnasium, as it is today.

Schubert’s Am Geburtstag de Kaisers, D 748 for choir and orchestra, was written for this school.

Albert Lortzing wrote Der Waffenschmiedin this house (1846-48). Moreover he kept some cows; in a tax list he is stated as Milchhändler (milk trader).

On this location the luxurious house of Johann Strauß stood, in which he lived from 1878 until his death in 1899. After demolition the Igelgasse was renamed Johann-Strauß-Gasse.

Ignaz Bösendorfer established a piano factory in 1828, that soon reached a leading position in piano making and in 1870 moved to this building, a former convent. Until recently headquarters, showroom and concert hall were here, but since 1973 the production of the instruments takes place in a new factory in Wiener Neustadt and now the beautiful building has been given up totally. By the way: the property of the firm is in American hands since 1966.> www.boesendorfer.com

House of the operetta composer Richard Heuberger.

The typical oboe of Zuleger & Co, maker of woodwind instruments, is the only admitted for use by the Wiener Philharmoniker. Its shape and sound is somewhat nearer to the baroque oboe than the world-wide used French type. The firm was established in 1912 but seems to be dismantled now. The Wiener Oboe however is also produced by other firms. >www.wieneroboe.at

This institution was established in 1905 as a music school and in 1958 certified as private conservatory. It disposes of a fine concert hall, built in 1876 for the piano firm Ehrbar. In this hall Brahms, Reger, Mahler, Bartók a.o. appeared. In 1910 Schönberg presented a part of his Gurrelieder(accompanied by 3 pianos instead of the prescribed giant orchestra) and some other works.For more information > www.konservatorium-prayer.at.

Béla Bartók lived here in April/May 1905.

Franz Schubert died on 19.XI.1828 in the brand-new house Zur Stadt Romberg, in the apartment of his brother Ferdinand, who wasa teacher and a modest composer of church music. Here, during the ten weeks before his death, Franz composed the songs which were collected later as Schwanengesang. Among the exhibits is Ferdinand’s piano, which Franz played for sure.

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The composer Franz Schreker lived in this art nouveau house until 1920.

Schubert’s funeral service took place on 21.XI.1828, two days after his death. A choir and a wind ensemble performed his Pax Vobiscum, D 551, with a new text by his friend Schober, An Schuberts Bahre (at S.’s bier). According to his will he was buried in Währing, next to Beethoven.

In 1894 Hugo Wolf, lacking in productive capacity, lived as subtenant of a working class family.

The singer Thomas Koschat, master of the Carinthian song, died here in 1921. cf. Klagenfurt.

House of Hans Erich Apostel, a pupil of Schönberg and fervent defender of the 12-note technique. He died in Vienna in 1972.

This park is the former cemetery Matzleinsdorfer Friedhof, that was in use between 1785 and 1875.

Gluck and Salieri had their graves here (now on Zentralfriedhof), also Beethoven’s brother Johann and Lortzing’s mother. Extant is the grave of Schubert’s friend, the singer Joh. Michael Vogl.