IN ADMISSION MUSICIANS’ APARTMENTS

1 MUSEUM 1 1 km BEETHOVEN MUSEUM 1190 Vienna, Tue – Sun and public holidays Musicians’ apartments belonging What was life like in the Full price ...... EUR 7,– Probusgasse 6 10 am – 1 pm and 2 pm – 6 pm to the Wien Museum, distance from St Stephen's Cathedral Discounted price ...... EUR 5,– Mozart household? Why did 2 BEETHOVEN CLOSED: Up to age 19 ...... FREE! PASQUALATIHAUS Jan 1, May 1, Dec 25 and other public holidays when they fall on a Monday. Beethoven go to Heiligenstadt? 1010 Vienna, Tue – Sun and public holidays (Except the Mozart apartment) Mölker Bastei 8 10 am – 1 pm and 2 pm – 6 pm MOZARTWOHNUNG IN THE In what kind of environment Full price ...... EUR 11,– Discounted price ...... EUR 9,– did Schubert grow up?

3 HAYDNHAUS ALL OTHER LOCATIONS In the musicians’ apart- 1060 Wien, Tue – Sun and public holidays 5 Full price ...... EUR 5,– Haydngasse 19 10 am – 1 pm and 2 pm – 6 pm ments belonging to the Wien Discounted price ...... EUR 4,– Up to age 19 ...... FREE! Museum, you can get really EVERY 1ST SUNDAY IN THE MONTH, FOR ALL VISITORS: FREE ADMISSION (EXCEPT THE MOZART APARTMENT) close to the great composers. 4 MUSICUS: ONE TICKET – SIX SITES € 20, – (general admission) / € 15,– (discounted rate) valid in all musicians’ apartments of the Wien Museum 2 (except Mozartwohnung) for one year starting on the day of the first visit. Their personal possessions, the DANUBE One visit per site. 7 whole atmosphere of the place, 4 JOHANN STRAUSS INFORMATION FOR VISITORS WOHNUNG Phone ...... (+43-1) 505 87 47-85173 and numerous examples of their 1020 Vienna, Tue – Sun and public holidays [email protected] Praterstraße 54 10 am – 1 pm and 2 pm – 6 pm music invite you to immerse 5 SCHUBERT 3 6 SIGN UP FOR GUIDED TOURS GEBURTSHAUS DANUBE CANAL yourself in the world of the Phone ...... (+43-1) 505 87 47-85180* 1090 Vienna, Tue – Sun and public holidays Nußdorfer Straße 54 10 am – 1 pm and 2 pm – 6 pm [email protected] (* MON – FR I , 9 AM – 2 PM) great names of music history.

At the same time, you take

6 SCHUBERT ALL INFORMATION SUBJECT TO CHANGE! a journey through time into STERBEWOHNUNG 1040 Vienna, Wed – Thu historic Vienna – from the Age Kettenbrückeng. 6 10 am – 1 pm and 2 pm – 6 pm

7 MOZARTWOHNUNG of Enlightenment to the period IN THE MOZARTHAUS VIENNA Graphic design: Studio Es Studio design: Graphic 1010 Vienna, Daily HAUPTSPONSOR DES WIEN MUSEUMS when the Ringstrasse was built. Domgasse 5 10 am – 7 pm ST STEPHEN'S CATHEDRAL MUSICIANS’ APARTMENTS

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With some interruptions, Ludwig spent the last twelve years of his life in Gumpen- was born in 1797 by the open Franz Schubert spent the last few months be- van Beethoven spent a total of dorf, which at that time was the outermost suburb of Vienna. fire in the kitchen of a small apartment in fore his death in November 1828 living at the eight years living in the house He bought his house between his trips to England, added an the then suburb of Lichtental. He spent the home of his brother Ferdinand in the Ketten- of Johann Baptist Freiherr von extra level and moved there in 1797 at the age of 65. At the high first four-and-a-half years of his life in this brückengasse. This is where his last musical Pasqualati, his patron and close point of his career, he composed the oratorios “” house in the Nussdorfer Strasse. The focus is on drafts and the last letter written in his own friend. The first major work that and “” here, among other works. Numerous prom- Schubert’s education, his musical development, hand can be seen, along with documents the composer wrote here on the inent visitors from Austria and his family and his friends, with a highlight of the recording the touching reactions of his rela- Mölker Bastei was the opera “Leo- elsewhere visited Haydn in this exhibition being the composer’s famous spec- tives when Schubert passed away. nore” (renamed “” against house. tacles. The Schubert Geburtshaus also houses Beethoven’s will). The 5th and 6th two memorial rooms containing landscapes Symphonies, which Beethoven from the period painted by the had been working on during his writer and contemporary of Schubert, Adalbert summer visits to Baden and Heiligenstadt, were also finished Stifter. at the Pasqualatihaus. � photo: Hertha Hurnaus

� photo: � photo: � From 1784 to Domgasse 5 Hertha Hurnaus Lisa Rastl 4 JOHANN STRAUSS WOHNUNG 1787, W.A. © Mozarthaus 7 MOZARTWOHNUNG Mozart and his Vienna/ IN THE MOZARTHAUS VIENNA family lived at David Peters

The new Beethoven Museum provides a comprehensive ac- Johann Strauss the Younger lived in the fashionable and elegant Mozart’s only remaining home in Vienna forms part count of the life and work of the great composer. As has been Praterstrasse from the mid-1860s to the mid-1870s. Then at the of the Mozarthaus Vienna and offers an entertaining known for generations, the building is associated with a mo- peak of his career, the world-famous composer went on tours treasure-hunt based on carefully selected objects. It ving testimonial by Beethoven. It was here, in 1802, that he through Europe and the USA. It was also at no. 54 that he wrote consists of four large rooms, two small ones, and a wrote the “Heiligenstadt Testament”, the letter addressed, the “unofficial Austrian national anthem”, the Blue Danube kitchen and was the most expensive and luxurious but never sent, to his brothers in which he expressed his waltz. The numerous valuable dwelling Mozart ever had. He lived here from the end despair about his increasing deafness. At the same time, items in the apartment include of September 1784 until the end of April 1787. During he was also working on some of his most important com- a Bösendorfer grand piano these two-and-a-half years, he wrote important works positions, including the “Tempest” sonata and initial sketches and an Amati violin that were such as “”. for his 3rd Symphony (“Eroica”). owned by the “Waltz King”.

� photo: � photo: � Hieronymus Klaus Pichler Hertha Hurnaus Löschenkohl: Wolfgang Amadeus � View of the inner � Johann Strauss’ Mozart, 1785, courtyard of the apartment in silhouette, copper- Beethoven Museum, the Praterstrasse, plate engraving photo: Birgit photo: Hertha © Vienna Museum and Peter Kainz Hurnaus

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