The world capital of music. The Wien “Never fear, WIEN MUSEUM WIEN MUSEUM Haydn is here— HAYDNHAUS / BEETHOVEN EROICAHAUS / Museum takes you on a time trip to HAYDNHAUS nothing can “I have been put into this world for nothing BEETHOVEN PASQUALATIHAUS / BEETHOVEN with Brahms Memorial Room happen.” WIEN MUSEUM except composing.” Franz Schubert 1060 Vienna, Haydngasse 19 WOHNUNG HEILIGENSTADT / MOZARTWOHNUNG the original locations. Be the guest of Joseph Haydn, 1809, his reaction SCHUBERT Tue – Sun and public holidays*, to a canon ball landing in front IM MOZARTHAUS VIENNA / SCHUBERT the great—the star composers. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. of his house. GEBURTSHAUS Special guided tour available! with Stifter Memorial Rooms WIEN MUSEUM GEBURTSHAUS / SCHUBERT STERBEWOHNUNG / 1090 Vienna, Nußdorfer Straße 54 SCHUBERT JOHANN STRAUSS WOHNUNG The former dwellings of the com- Joseph Haydn spent the last Numerous visitors from home and Tue – Sun and public holidays*, ­twelve years of his life in his house abroad paid their respects to the 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. STERBEWOHNUNG posers mostly correspond to their in the “outermost suburb” of most famous composer of his time, Special guided tour available! 1040 Vienna, Kettenbrückeng. 6 Windmühle. He wrote several among them fellow composers Wed and Thu, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. original state. Portraits, sheet music­ ­major works there, including “The and agents of music publishers. Franz Schubert was born in this and 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. ADMISSION Creation” and “The Seasons”, and The permanent exhibition connects house on 31 January 1797. The General Admission EUR 5 Discounted Rate EUR 4 died there on 31 May 1809 during the private life of this musical apartment was hardly conceived Of all the composers’ dwellings and manuscripts, personal belon- Visitors under 19 years of age FREE ENTRY the first weeks of the Napoleonic genius with the political and social for such a large family, consisting belonging to the Wien Museum, First Sunday of every month (all visitors) FREE ENTRY gings and audio samples tell of the occupation of Vienna, at the ripe context of his time. In addition, of only one room and a “Rauch- the house near the Naschmarkt old age of 77. the garden of the house in the kuchl”— a little smokehouse-cum- where Schubert died is perhaps Mozartwohnung – Mozarthaus Vienna General Admission EUR 11 historic part of Vienna has been kitchen with open fire. Today the most haunting in atmosphere. lives and works of geniuses— Discounted Rate EUR 9 refurbished, based on the interior a major part of the top floor is Franz Schubert lived here several but the dominating “genius” and design of the middle classes devoted to the composer’s memory. weeks as his brother’s guest in an CLOSED* around 1800. It provides a moving and graphic apartment consisting of two rooms 1 January, 1 May and 25 December and other public holidays falling on a Monday most important exhibit is the “genius documentation of his musical deve- and a cabinet study on the second INFORMATION FOR VISITORS lopment, his circle of friends and floor of the Biedermeier house un- Tel.: (+43-1) 505 87 47-85173, [email protected] loci”, the place itself. Come and feel important stations of his life. The til his death on 19 November 1828. most fascinating exhibit for many of This is where he wrote his last REGISTRATION FOR SPECIAL TOURS Haydn’s last visitor’s card with its own Leopold Kupelwieser, parlour game of the Schubertians in Atzenbrugg, 1821, Tel.: (+43-1) 505 87 47-85180, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. melody, 1803, lithograph the visitors: Schubert’s spectacles. collotype print after water colour compositions. the aura! [email protected] CONCERT HALL HIRE MOZART, BEETHOVEN, STRAUSS, SCHUBERT, BRAHMS & HAYDN Tel.: (+43-1) 505 87 47-84033, [email protected] Unknown artist, Wolfgang Amadeus Thomas Hardy, Joseph Haydn, DESIGN Mozart, 1803, gouache on parchment c. 1809, photogravure Concert Hall at the Haydnhaus—for music events and performances Wilhelm August Rieder, Franz Schubert, 1825, collotype print after water colour Franz Schubert’s spectacles, c. 1820 Piano owned by the Schubert family buerobauer.com

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WWW.WIENMUSEUM.AT “If, dear Ries, you could think of a better place to live, it would suit me very well. WIEN MUSEUM … I would very much like something on a spacious, quiet square, or on the Bastei.” WIEN MUSEUM MOZARTWOHNUNG IM Letter from Ludwig van Beethoven BEETHOVEN to his friend Ferdinand Ries, 1804 MOZARTHAUS VIENNA PASQUALATIHAUS 1010 Vienna, Domgasse 5 WIEN MUSEUM WIEN MUSEUM 1010 Vienna, Mölker Bastei 8 Daily, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. JOHANN STRAUSS BEETHOVEN WOHNUNG Tue – Sun and public holidays*, WIEN MUSEUM 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. The only apartment of Mozart WOHNUNG HEILIGENSTADT BEETHOVEN Special guided tour available! still preserved in Vienna is 1020 Vienna, Praterstraße 54 1190 Vienna, Probusgasse 6 on Domgasse 5. The composer Tue – Sun and public holidays*, Tue – Sun and public holidays*, EROICAHAUS The “Pasqualatihaus”, named after moved into the house’s prestigious 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. 1190 Vienna, Döblinger Hauptstr. 92 its owner Joseph Benedikt Baron bel étage with his family on 29 Special guided tour available! Special guided tour available! Open upon request only; von Pasqualati, stands on the September 1784 and lived here Tel.: (+43-1) 505 87 47-85713 Mölker Bastei, a remnant of the until April 1787. These two and a Strauss finished writing the This house in the Viennese suburb [email protected] old city fortifications. Ludwig van half years were among the most world-famous waltz “The Blue of Heiligenstadt is dedicated to one Beethoven lived and worked in successful in his life. Here Mozart Danube” (Austria’s “unofficial of the most devastating events in Beethoven frequently spent the Vienna for 35 years, eight of them composed numerous chamber national anthem”!) in this apart- Ludwig van Beethoven’s life: it is a summer months in the wine-grow- here on the fourth floor. music pieces, eight piano concer- ment in 1867. The composer lived remembrance of the “Heiligenstadt ers’ villages in the northwest of Among the pieces he worked on tos and, first and foremost, on Praterstrasse for seven years, Testament” of 1802—the letter Vienna. In 1803, the year he worked in this house were his 4th, 5th, 7th the opera “Le Nozze di Figaro”. at the time an elegant suburban he never sent to his two brothers, primarily on his third symphony, and 8th symphonies, and most The Mozart apartment opens up boule­vard. Instruments, furniture in which he expressed his despair the “Eroica”, he is said to have of all his opera “Fidelio”. Many a fascinating trail for the visitor and paintings once belonging over his progressive deafness. spent the summer in idyllic documents are on show illustrat- Flute clock, c. 1796. The flute clock was to follow, clues of his life in to him illustrate Strauss’s work The exhibits document the back- Oberdöbling. Today, numerous ing the life and work of Beethoven, made around 1796 and plays a variation stories, background information and in-fluence as a composer, ground of this personal testament, exhibits in the Eroica house recall also the famous portrait painted of Mozart’s “Andante for a waltz in a small and extraordinary exhibits from musician and conductor—and the compositions of summer 1802, the rural setting of the Viennese in 1804/05 by Willibrord Joseph organ” (KV 616). These four bars are the his time. Everything revolves only ones from a Mozart composition for also show something of his and Heiligenstadt itself, at the time suburb and the works the compos- Mähler, and a number of the a flute mechanism as yet to have been around the question: how did the private life. “The Blue Danube” waltz, Op. 314, 1867, Wiener Männergesang-Verein a spa and recreational resort. er created in this year. composer’s personal belongings. preserved on a historical drum. Mozarts live during this period? “My wish and my hope is – to achieve honour and fame and make money ...” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart BE THE GUEST OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS Gaming room? Mozart was inordinately fond of gambling and games. The largest Johann Strauss, photograph by Johann Stefan Decker, Beethoven, room overlooking Domgasse was probably used as a gaming room—with a billiards Julius Gertinger, 1884 Living room and study of Johann Strauss Beethoven’s house, Heiligenstadt, view of courtyard 1824, chalk drawing table and perhaps a special table as well for card games, chess or draughts. © Mozarthaus Vienna / David M Peters