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Food, Beer, Inns, Doctors, and a Bit More Food, Beer, Inns, Doctors, and a bit more ... An insightful compilation of texts and images taken from the internet prepared by Gilles Houle Bust of Anton Bruckner by Viktor Tilgner (Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz) BRUCKNER Food, Beer, Inns, Doctors, and a bit more ... Index History of Beer 1 Brewing in ancient Germania 6 Beer, Taverns and Inns in the Habsburg Empire 7 Anton Dreher 10 Regulars’ table : the « Stammtisch » tradition 11 Wallsee-Sindelburg : « Bruckhof » 13 Neureug bei Œd : « Gasthof Redl » 14 Sierning : « Zum Krößwang Inn » 14 Ansfelden : « Home Sweet Home » 15 Theresia Helm 16 « Tonerl » picks apples 16 The siblings 17 « Tonerl's » singing lessons 17 Ignaz Bruckner 18 Bruckner's father failing health 18 Death of Bruckner's father 18 The young Bruckner at St. Florian 19 Windhaag : The assistant school teacher 20 Windhaag : The inimicable house-keeper 21 Windhaag : On the menu 22 Windhaag : Enjoying oat beer 22 Windhaag : A haunting spectacle ! 22 Windhaag : the Sücka family 23 Bruckner, the enthusiastic swimmer 24 Mühlviertel : The « Rocka Roas » 25 Bruckner, the agile dancer 25 The Biedermeier mania for dancing 26 WAB 59 : « At the feast » / WAB 86 : « Table song » 27 Kronstorf : « Gasthaus Steinleitner » 28 Kronstorf : « Gasthaus Rahofer » 28 St. Florian : « Landhotel und Gasthof » 29 Linz : Jörger Freihaus (Landkanzlei, Handelsakademie) 30 Linz : « Gasthof zum Bayerischen Hof » 31 Bruckner unleashes his power 31 Bruckner starts teaching 31 St. Florian : School House 32 Aloisia Bogner : Bruckner's first flamme 32 Tragic death of Johann Baptist Weiß 32 The notary of Melk 33 Emma Krenn (born Thaner) 33 Antonie Werner 35 Isolation of Bruckner 35 WAB 83 : « Toast » Fanfares 36 St. Cecilia's Day 36 Prelate Michael Arneth 37 St. Florian : « Gasthof Zum goldenen Löwen » 37 Vöcklabruck : Bruckner's second home 37 St. Florian : « Gasthaus Sperl » 39 Gmunden : « Gasthof zur Goldenen Sonne » 39 Bruckner in Linz 40 Linz : Remedies for Bruckner 40 Linz : Bruckner's apartments 40 Emilie von Binzer 42 Ugh ! 43 Vienna : Bottom-fermented lager 43 Bruckner at the restaurant 43 Bruckner's favourite food 44 Flirting from the tavern's window 45 Linz : « Gasthof Goldener Anker » 45 Linz : Hotel « Wolfinger » 46 Linz : Hotel « Zum Roten Krebs » 46 Linz : « Gasthaus Zur goldenen Kanone » 47 Linz : Soup and pretty waitresses at the « Gasthof zum Bayerischen Hof » 47 The Vienna Lager beer 50 Linz : « Gasthof Zum schwarzen Bock » 52 Cholera Epidemics in the 19th Century 52 Vienna and cholera 54 Cholera epidemic in Upper-Austria 63 Bruckner, the Choir-Master 63 Bertha Bargesi 65 Simon Sechter worries about his best student 65 The soup of « Frau » Eidenberger 66 « Ten Pin » Bruckner 67 Vienna : Hotel « Zum Goldenen Kreuz » 67 Birth of Gustav Mahler 70 Doctor Josef Kopfstein 70 Liedertafel « Frohsinn's » new choir-master 70 Death of Theresia Helm 71 Liberals and Catholics in local Politics : the Hospitals 71 No more hotels 86 Urfahr : Local tavern 86 Nuremberg : Great German Choral Festival 86 The young Nietzsche 87 Nuremberg : The sister of a wafer-producer 88 Nuremberg : « Sächsischen Hof » 88 Regensburg : « Walhalla » 88 Olga, the provocative waitress 88 Bruckner and Brünnhilde 89 Bruckner and Tannhäuser 89 Bruckner at the « Burgtheater » 90 Brahms in Vienna 90 Kürnberg bei Linz : « Gasthaus Jäger » 90 Vienna : « Hotel Kaiserin Elisabeth » 92 Munich : « Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten » 94 Ischl : « Weinhaus Attwenger » 94 Ischl : « Zauner » pastry-shop 95 Ischl : The Old Brewery 96 Beethoven's skull 96 Beethoven's doctors 103 Sierning : « Gasthof Wimmer » 110 Steyr : Bruckner and Josef Werndl 111 Steyr : Mayor Georg Pointner 112 Linz : The Mayfeld's 114 Linz : General Hospital 115 The classy and humble high-school teacher 116 First visit at Kreuzen 116 Christmas Day : Official Town Hall lunch 117 Munich : « Tristan und Isolde » 117 Snoozing during the B minor Sonata 117 Franz Liszt's bad dental record 118 Dentist József Árkövy 118 Bruckner and the « Gugelhupf » 119 « Nanni » in Linz 119 Mahler's migraine 120 Josefine Lang 120 Neufelden : « Gasthof Weilnböck » (Hotel Scherrer) 121 Henriette Reiter 122 High-esteem for his St. Florian's teacher 122 Hydro-therapy 122 Prießnit, Kneipp, and the hydro-pathy movement 126 The resurgence of spas 128 Vincenz Prießnitz 129 Sebastian Kneipp 132 . 1864-1868 134 WAB 27 : Mass in E minor 134 End of 1866 : Simon Sechter 135 Harbinger of things to come 135 Karl Waldeck 136 Early 1867 136 Kreuzen 137 Creating a cold water station 137 Eugenie Knörlein dances with Bruckner 138 Doctor Anton Knörlein senior 138 Doctor Anton Knörlein junior 142 Linz : Provincial lunatic hospital 142 Doctor Josef Födinger 143 Convalescence of Bruckner in Kreuzen 143 Doctor Maximilian Keyhl 144 Convalescence : Dates and events 145 « Der Anker » Insurance Society 145 Letter to Rudolf Weinwurm (21 July 1867) 150 Bruckner in a state of crisis 152 Betty's dress 153 Eduard von Nagel 153 Doctor Otto Fleischanderl 154 Doctor Fritz Fleischanderl 155 Georg Rapperport 156 Kreuzen : The years of decline 157 Death of Simon Secther 157 Mass in F minor (WAB 28) 158 Financial support from Bishop Rüdigier 158 The « Frohsinn » accomodates Bruckner 160 Doctor Maximilian Keyhl follows up 160 Body of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico 161 Bruckner's multiple manias 161 Linz : « Frau » Pauline Hofmann 163 Hotel « Zum Roten Krebs » : Johanna Pichler falls in Bruckner's arms 163 Uncertain future in Vienna 164 Desperate letter to Hans von Bülow 165 Quotations from Hans von Bülow 166 News from Johann Herbeck 166 Settling in Vienna 167 Linz : Bruckner and Hanslick face-to-face at the « Gasthof zum Bayerischen Hof » 168 Ready for school day 168 Vienna : Gasthaus « Zum goldenen Greif » 168 « Frohsinn's » new home : « Gasthof Zur Stadt Frankfurt » 170 Rehearsing the Mass in E minor (WAB 27) 171 Possible return to Kreuzen 171 « Frohsinn » says farewell to their choir-master 172 Alexandrine von Soyka 172 Vienna : « Währingerstraße » Number 41 172 1868 : Christmas is coming 176 Vienna : Memoirs of an old choir-boy 176 Today's menu for the Emperor 177 Paris and Nancy 181 Paris : « Hôtel Diesbach » 181 Bruckner and the Parisian press 183 Wels : The Rabl family 184 Doctor Carl Rabl 184 Doctor Alexander Fränkel 187 Wels : Honorary member 188 Vienna : Hotel « Zur goldspinnerin » 189 1869 : Bruckner's summer vacation 190 WAB 27 : « Gasthof Zur Stadt Frankfurt » 190 Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1869-1870 191 WAB 27 : Tense rehearsals 194 Vienna : Death of « Nanni » 194 « Frau Kathi » , the new house-keeper 195 Bruckner plays at home 197 Kirchdorf : « Gasthof “ Zur Post ” » 197 1870's : The erection of the « New Vienna » 198 Vienna : « St. Annahof's » Café and Restaurant « Neue Elysium » 200 Vienna : The « St. Anna Affair » 201 The Viennese woman 208 The « Wiener Kaffeehaus » 208 The Cafés of Vienna 211 Bruckner remembers his favourite dishes 224 Vienna : « Graben's Café » 224 Vienna : The coffee-house near the Stock-Exchange 224 Vienna : « Café Central » 225 Vienna : « Café Größenwahn » (« Griensteidl ») 227 Vienna : « Café Schwarzenberg » 228 Vienna : « Café Impérial » 229 University student Friedrich Eckstein 234 Emma Eckstein 237 Vienna : Restaurant « Zur goldenen Kugel » 247 Vienna : « Gasthaus zum Kühfuß » 252 The « Pilsner » Beer 253 The joys of smoking versus addiction to tobacco 263 When non-smoking threatened the Monarchy 264 The Austrian tobacco monopoly 265 The Medical-Surgical Military Academy : Anatomical wax-models and tobacco enemas 269 What do Franz-Josef and a woman revolutionary have in common ? 271 Bruckner, Emperor Franz-Josef and Virginia Cigars 272 The new Vienna Conservatory 273 The sour throat of little Mahler 273 The new « Musikverein » 273 « Musikverein » : Inaugural concerts 274 Doctor Karl Schiedermayr 280 Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1870-1871 283 The London organ tour 284 « Toni » , F. Zimmermann's sister 285 London : « Deutscher Gasthof Seyd » 286 London : Subway accident 289 London : Kensington station 289 Bruckner's London debut 290 The other Albert Hall concerts 293 London : Double-decker omnibuses 295 London : the Crystal Palace concerts 296 A providential return home 299 Linz : « Gasthof Stadt Brünn » 300 London : Fear of cholera 300 Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1871-1872 301 Bruckner plays Liszt 302 Brahms : « Karlsgasse » Number 4 302 Vienna Conservatory : Final examinations (July 1872) 302 Hans Rott's mother 305 Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1872-1873 305 Rehearsing the 2nd Symphony 306 Iglau : Cžap Hotel 307 Vienna Conservatory : Final examinations (Mid-July 1873) 307 1873 : Bruckner's summer vacation 309 Karlsbad : « Hotel Anger » 309 Physicians of Karlsbad 310 Marienbad : « Weißen Rößl Inn » 316 The Marienbad Orchestra 317 Bayreuth : « Goldenen Anker » Hotel 319 Bruckner at « Wahnfried » 321 The hang-over 324 Gustav Adolph Kietz 325 « Weihenstephan » Beer 326 Expo 1873 : Eduard Hanslick and Nikolaus Dumba 328 Expo 1873 : The Vienna World Fair 330 Expo 1873 : Buildings and Side Buildings 348 Expo 1873 : Opening day 357 Expo 1873 : Opening speech at the « Reichsrat » 358 Expo 1873 : The Emperor’s Pavilion 359 Nasir al-Din Shah’s narrations of World Fairs 359 Expo 1873 : The covered ways 361 Expo 1873 : Restaurations and draining system 361 Expo 1873 : Beer at the Vienna World Fair 361 Expo 1873 : The Tasting-Hall 364 Expo 1873 : Where to eat and drink 365 Expo 1873 : Austrian Healing Springs Pavilion 370 Expo 1873 : The Turkish « Café » 371 Expo 1873 : Swiss Chalet and pastries 372 Expo 1873 : Chinese Tea Pavilion
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