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 373
Expo 1873 : Farmers’ or peasants’ houses 373
Expo 1873 : School houses 374
Expo 1873 : Boiler houses 374
Vienna : « Betty » invites Bruckner at « Möbius » 374
Expo 1873 : Sunday's Symphonic concerts 375
Expo 1873 : The « Musikverein » organ concerts 375
Expo 1873 : Symphony No. 2 375
Expo 1873 : Franz Schwalm 377
Entertainments in the « Prater » 377
Vienna : « Lusthaus » 379
Cholera at the Vienna World Fair 380
Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1873-1874 381
The vegetarianism of Richard Wagner 382
Marianne Selch 382
Josefa (« Pepi ») Bruckner 383
Plzeň : The missed « rendez-vous » with the Emperor 383
Visiting his sister 384
Vienna Conservatory : Final examinations (beginning of July 1874) 384
Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1874-1875 386 Leaving « St. Annahof » for good 387
Death of Mahler's younger brother 388
Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1875-1876 388
Conservatory student Gustav Mahler 389
Iglau : « Hotel Zu den drei Fürsten » 395
Conservatory student Anton Krisper 399
Doctor Richard von Krafft-Ebing 400
Graz : Feldhof Sanatorium 416
Mahler and « St. Vitus' Dance » 421
Death of Hans Rott's father 422
Conservatory student Otto Mahler 422
Conservatory student Hans Rott 422
Bruckner stands for Hans Rott 430
Rott's sausages 431
Bruckner offended by absenteeism 431
University student Gustav Mahler 431
University of Vienna : Winter Semester (1877-1878) 432
University of Vienna : Summer Semester (1878) 432
Mahler's university years 432
Mahler, the vegetarian 435 Professor Bruckner and Mahler go to lunch 438
Conservatory student Hugo Wolf 439
Wolf's struggle with poverty 441
Hugo Wolf : Dates and events 442
Max Graf about Hugo Wolf 447
Mahler and Wolf 449
Wolf, the German nationalist 450
Conservatory student Rudolf Krzyżanowski 451
Conservatory student Julius Korngold 455
Conservatory student Émile Jaques-Dalcroze 456
University student Heinrich Krzyżanowski 457
Vienna Conservatory : Final examinations (June-July 1875) 458
Steyr : Organ recital 460
A bad joke by the students 460
Wagner praises Bruckner 460
Doctor Josef Standhartner 461
Vienna : Old University building 484
Vienna University : Bruckner's opening address 484
Bruckner's university lectures 485
University student Ernst Schwanzara 488 Vienna Conservatory : Final examinations (June 1876) 489
Bruckner asks for a « extraordinarius » professorship 490
Remembering the F minor Mass (WAB 28) 490
Free tickets for the first Bayreuth Festival 491
Sorrento : Hôtel Vittoria 491
Judith Gautier 492
Vienna : « Heinrichhof » 496
Café « Heinrichhof » 501
The windows of the « Heinrichhof » 502
Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1876-1877 503
The « Graz School » of experimental psychology 506
Anton Ölzelt junior 506
Vienna Conservatory : Final examinations (End of June 1877) 509
Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1877-1878 510
Death of Johann Herbeck 515
Vienna : Steam-rolling « at Gause » 515
WAB 103 : The disastrous concert envening 516
Leopold Hofmeyer 521
Moving to the « Hôtel de France » 522
Inspiration and food 523 Bruckner's workload 523
Bruckner's health 523
Bruckner's hearing impairment 524
Bruckner's migraines 524
Young men and « Eros matutinus » 527
Mahler : « Art, love, religion » 528
Hugo Wolf's « fatal wound » 529
Adalbert von Goldschmidt 534
Doctor Albert Neisser 535
Perils of the Viennese skin-trade 538
Prostitution in Vienna in the 19th Century 541
Government and public morals 549
Prostitution in Vienna : a case for the morality police 551
Student Alfred Stroß wins a First Prize 552
Anton Meißner meets Bruckner 552
Hotel reservations in St. Florian 552
Moving and playing organ 553
Vienna : A gift for the Votive Church 553
Mahler's eyesight 553
Bruckner, Liszt and ... crazy Hortense 554 Hortense Voigt 554
Liszt plays Bruckner at the piano 560
Rotterdam : Bruckner's organ concert 560
Vienna : Forensic Medicine 509
Mahler and the Pernerstorfer Circle 569
Doctor Max von Gruber 571
Vienna Conservatory : Final examinations (Mid-June 1878) 575
Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1878-1879 575
WAB 54 : Ölzelt junior's wedding 578
Doctor Heinrich Wallmann 579
The « Hunt » Scherzo 580
The String Quintet and the « Riedhof » Restaurant 580
Ternberg : « Gasthof Derfler » 581
Vienna Conservatory : Final examinations (Mid-June 1879) 581
Student Alfred Stroß's Symphony 582
Altpernstein abandoned Castle 582
Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1879-1880 583
University of Vienna : Winter Semester (1879-1880) 585
WAB 106 585
Vienna Conservatory : Fall Semester (1879) 585 « Ilse » : The Opera libretto 586
Imperial Court Jeweller's new owners 586
1880 : Bruckner cited in the « Deutsche Zeitung » 587
The Upper-Austrian look 587
Hans Rott's madness 588
Gustav Hueber's New Year greetings 590
A giant pear on 2 legs 590
Bruckner pays tribute to Hans Rott 590
« Red Hedgehog » : Bruckner, Mahler, Krzyżanowski 590
Vienna Conservatory : Final examinations (Mid-June 1880) 592
University of Vienna : Summer Semester (1880) 592
Invitation from the landlord 592
Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1880-1881 592
Paying the months of August and September 596
The « S/X Admiral Tegetthoff » 596
At the « Red Hedgehog » Inn before leaving for vacation 598
Bruckner and railroad travelling 598
1880 : Longest summer vacation 599
St. Florian 599
Oberammergau : Marie Bartl 599
Schaffhausen : « Rheinfall » 601 « Schloß Rapperswil » 602
Zürich 603
Zürich : « Großmünster » 603
Chamonix 606
« Mont Blanc » 607
« La Flégère » 607
Geneva 607
Lausanne 610
Freiburg 610
Bern 612
Marie Studer 615
Lucerne 615
Babette Schreiber 620
« Tellskapelle » 621
Rigi railway 621
Munich - Salzburg - Vöcklabruck - Linz 623
WAB 106 : St. Florian 623
Rott writes to Hans Richter 624
Rott visits Brahms 624
Serious anomaly 624
Nephew's confirmation 624
Rott leaves Vienna 624 Rott, the insane 625
Vienna : Hotel « Kummer » , Paul Caro 625
University begins 625
Mahler starts to teach 625
Mahler knows about Rott's madness 625
Vienna Conservatory : Fall Semester (1880) 625
Rejection of Rott and Stroß 626
« Franzl » , Bruckner's pug dog 626
Brahms and cats 627
Bruckner, an anti-Semite ? 627
Vienna : The « Red Hedgehog » Inn 628
« Zum Rothen Igel » : Crazy hours 630
The left-handed cherub plying the lyre 630
Caspar Clemens von Zumbusch 632
Steyr : Summer vacations 632
Franz Xaver Bayer 633
Rott : From one lunatic asylum to the other 633
Brünnlfeld : Provincial Lunatic Asylum of Lower-Austria 634
The development of Viennese « care for the insane » 636
Vienna General Hospital : the « Fool's Tower » 641
Brahms' darkest secret 642 Brahms and Doctor Theodor Billroth 647
Surgery and national identity in late-19th Century Vienna 652
A « thaler » for a beer 670
Rudolf Krzyżanowski's sister-in-law 671
« Prater » : May Wine Festival 671
Vienna Conservatory : Final examinations (June 1881) 671
Weimar : Franz Liszt's accident 672
A copy of the 6th Symphony 673
Leopoldine Werndl 673
WAB 95/2 : The « Sierninghofen » tavern 673
Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1881-1882 675
Bruckner's dream 677
Bruckner is welcomed at the « Riedhof » 677
Vienna : « Gasthaus zum Riedhof » 678
« Doctores medicinæ » : Doctor Alexander Fränkel tells us about Bruckner 680
University of Vienna : Medical Faculty 682
The « Mecca » of Medicine 684
Vienna : General Hospital 689
Wisconsin : Michael Ruckengruber 690
Anton Meißner at the University 691
The « Ringtheater » fire 691 Eduard von Hofmann 697
Doctor Jaromír Mundy 699
« Ringtheater » : post-traumatic stress disorder 715
Christmas Tree Ceremony 716
1881 : Bruckner's Christmas 716
Vienna Conservatory : Final examinations (June 1882) 716
1882 : Hot in Vienna ! 717
The sweaty Bruckner 718
WAB 106 : The ornamented title-page 718
Josef Maria Kaiser 719
Shopping for his Master 720
The virtuoso from Budapest 721
Bayreuth : Premiere of « Parsifal » 721
Bayreuth : « Gasthaus Johann Gurt » 722
The girl from Bayreuth 723
Hans Rott attempts another suicide 724
Bruckner's Steyr supporters 724
Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1882-1883 724
Rott composes at the asylum 727
Doctor Ludwig Schlager 727
Vienna : Bruckner's « Hôtel de France » apartment 729 Vienna : Josef Schalk on mission to the « Hotel Kaiserin Elisabeth » 730
Ignaz wants a watch 730
Wagner's « pied à terre » in Venice 730
Wagner : The final days 730
Bruckner's premonition 735
Death of Richard Wagner 735
Reactions to Wagner's death 752
Wagner's funeral 757
Music and nationalism 757
Bruckner and Blaise Pascal's Wager 759
Beethoven's Opus 131 at the organ 760
Bruckner and the « Resurrection » Symphony 761
Vienna Conservatory : Final examinations (June 1883) 761
July 1883 : Hot in Vienna ! 761
Hugo Wolf, the music-critic 762
The 1883 « Parsifal » 762
Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1883-1884 762
Bruckner and student Anton Meißner 764
Bruckner writes to a « dear friend » 765
Bayreuth : « Gasthaus zur Eule » 765
Rott's latest compositions at the asylum 770 The nephews come to visit 771
« Sali » reproaches her brother 771
The brother replies 771
Combining business with pleasure 771
Hugo Schenk 772
The trial of Hugo Schenk 776
A « Schnitzel » from the « Riedhof » 777
Vöcklabruck : « Frau Hartmann » 777
Munich : « Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten » : 2 famous guests during summer 778
July 1884 : Hot in Vienna ! 778
« My stomach ! » 778
Bruckner and the « Eroica » 778
Rott : « From an Artist's Life » 779
Vienna Conservatory : Final examinations (June 1884) 779
Death of Hans Rott 780
Rott : « Post-mortem » 781
Bruckner's young fans 784
« Schlaraffia » : a World Society 784
Vöcklabruck : « Gasthof Forsthuber » 792
Bruckner and « Paixhanslia » 795
Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1884-1885 801 Brothers « Gaudeamus » ! 803
Felix Mottl : The bad student 810
Student Josef Schalk : « Herr Generalissimus » 811
Standing-room at the Opera House 811
University student Max Graf 812
University student Rudolf Steiner 815
Bruckner’s cosmic musical background in relation to the Zodiac 820
Rudolf Steiner and Friedrich Eckstein 823
Rudolf Steiner at the coffee-houses 826
University student Christian von Ehrenfels 827
University student Josef Laser 837
University : Bruckner and female students 838
Female student Elisabeth Rotter 838
Female student Laura Kahrer (Rappoldi) 838
Female student Marie Pohoryles 839
Female student Mathilde (Aloisia) Kralik 839
Hugo Wolf : the expelled student 840
Alfred Stroß : the troubled student 841
Doctor Theodor Meynert 843
University of Vienna : Inauguration of the Renaissance style main-building 847
WAB 102 : Liszt says NO 848 Death of Bishop Franz-Josef Rüdigier 848
Viennese premiere of Berlioz's « Te Deum » 848
Vienna : Restaurant-Hotel « Zur Stadt Frankfurt » 850
Christmas and New Year greetings 851
Leipzig : Hôtel « Hauffe » 851
Leipzig : Hotel « Stadt Rom » and « Hôtel de Russie » 853
« Wiener Salonblatt » : Wolf's on Bruckner's 7th Symphony (1884) 853
Rott's ultimate compositions 854
Bruckner-Wolf friendly association 854
Bruckner writes to his student Alfred Stroß 854
Bruckner writes to his sister « Sali » 855
Bruckner writes to Arthur Nikisch 856
Othmar von Türk 857
WAB 107 : The Munich trip 858
WAB 107 : Hermann Levi's toast 860
Hermann von Kaulbach and Bruckner's nose 862
Tears in homage to Wagner. 863
Back in Vienna 864
A portrait and 2 photos 864
Edgar Hanfstängl 866
Josef Löwy 867
Bruckner writes to Kaulbach 868 WAB 108 : Marie Demar and « Linzer-Torte » 869
WAB 108 : « Micherl » dreams 870
The Köchert family 871
Looking for an apartment 874
Bruckner writes to Eva Wagner 874
Bruckner unable to appear at the funeral 875
Death of Fritz Mottl 875
WAB 45 : Bruckner takes command 876
Arthur Nikisch's wedding 876
The conversion of Franz Liszt 877
Prague : The Emperor visits the Burghers’ Brewery 878
Bruckner toasted at the Bishop’s table 880
Hans Paumgartner on the 7th Symphony 880
Vienna : Opera projects for Bruckner 880
Marie Reinhardt 881
Vienna Conservatory : Final examinations (June 1885) 881
Mahler's sore throat episodes 882
Steyr : In quest of tranquility 882
The dear biographer 883
Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1885-1886 884
Wolf's « Penthesilea » fiasco 886 Bruckner's female admirers 887
A Bruckner female student eats « at Gause » 887
1885 : Last day of November - mild ! 888
Baroness Marie Anna Lederer 888
« Wiener Salon-Blatt » : Wolf on Bruckner's Quintet 889
Munich : « Te Deum » (WAB 45) 890
Happy Thursday « at Gause » 890
Bruckner writes to King Ludwig II of Bavaria 890
1886 : Cold to begin March 890
WAB 107 : Austrian premiere 890
WAB 107 : A laurel wreath at Vienna's premiere 891
Tears and a bust of Wagner 892
Bruckner irritated by Josef Schalk 892
Bruckner, the drunkard 893
A Wagnerian Baron writes poetry to Bruckner 893
« Wiener Salonblatt » : Wolf's on Bruckner's 7th Symphony (1886) 894
Munich : Bruckner stays at the « 4 Seasons » 894
Taking the train and booking a room 895
« Frohsinn's » 41st anniversary 895
Prague : Mahler conducts Bruckner 896
Prague : « Grand Hotel Bräuer » 897 I lost my hat ! 897
Sondershausen : « Hotel Münch » 898
Vienna Conservatory : Final examinations (June 1886) 899
Bruckner's « Last Supper » 899
Bruckner writes to Kietz's daughter 901
Bruckner receives the Order of Franz-Josef 902
Portrait by Josef Büche 904
Liszt's ophthalmic surgery 904
Alfred Karl Græfe 907
Doctor Richard von Volkmann 909
Bayreuth : Café Sammet 923
Bayreuth Festival : tie-in products 923
Liebig's meat-extract 924
Liszt's final days 925
Death of Franz Liszt 940
Funeral Mass of Franz Liszt 957
Bruckner, the alpinist 941
Vienna Conservatory : Academic Year 1886-1887 943
Bruckner and Freud : close neighbours (1886-1891) 946
Freud's dream about Hugo Wolf 946
Doctor Josef Breuer 946 « Gasthaus zum Riedhof » : difficult fasting 949
The « lean » Friday menu 949
New Year greetings to Nikisch 949
Bruckner threatens to call the police 950
Bruckner writes to Theodor Helm 951
Wolf resigns 951
Death of Hugo Wolf's father 952
Bruckner and the « the 3 Bs » 952
St. Florian's generous welcome 952
Richter's not-so-funny joke 952
Gustav Mahler meets Richard Strauß 953
Eduard Marxsen's last years 953
Bruckner writes to « Frau Barbara » 953
Sechter's nephew 954
Vienna : Restaurant « Griechenbeisl » 955
The battle cry of Hugo Wolf 957
Hugo Wolf at Oberammergau 957
University of Vienna : Summer Semester (1888) 958
Bruckner's « pince-nez » 958
« Fräulein » Bielohaubek 963
The « Annafest » 963 Paying 3 months in advance 964
Henrietta Sammet 965
Schubert's remains 965
Face-to-face at the « Musikverein » 966
Bruckner writes to Karl Waldeck 966
Bruckner writes to « Fräulein » Martha Rauscher 967
Doctor Leopold Schrötter 968
Bruckner and Josef Schalk at the « Zur goldenen Kugel » 970
Franz Schalk has a good thought for Bruckner 970
Hugo Wolf's highly-productive period 971
1888 : Bruckner feels sad around Christmas time 971
New Year's Eve : Wolf writes to his mother 973
Hugo Wolf and Doctor Josef Breuer 974
The mistake of the « Gaudeamuses » 974
Wolf on Brahms 975
Budapest : Mahler escapes a fire 975
Mathilde Mayr (born Feßl) 975
Bruckner and the Tragedy of Mayerling 979
A deadly duel 981
WAB deest 9 : « At Gause » inherits a song 982
Mahler : First operation for hemorrhoids 982
Numeromania relapse 983 Bayreuth : « Stadtkirche » 983
Payment for September 984
Luise Blümelhuber 984
Little Schnabel 986
« Café Griensteidl » : Hugo Wolf 986
Doctor Justinius Kerner 986
« Red Hedgehog » : Smoked ham and dumplings ! 987
Otto Böhler : Brahms' silhouette 989
Brahms' eating habits 989
Doctor Ignaz Semmelweis 994
Brahms' favourite dishes at the « Red Hedgehog » 1002
Brahms' sleeping disorder 1003
Brahms records his own music 1004
Bruckner praises his copyist from Steyr 1007
Ignaz's meat poisoning 1008
« Hôtel de France » : Apartment pictures 1009
« At Gause » : Bruckner's fist 1009
Bruckner consults 2 physicians 1009
Doctor Ottokar Chiari 1010
Doctor Gustav Riehl senior 1010
Berlioz's « Requiem » and Cosima 1011
WAB 108 : Emperor Franz-Josef 1012 Paying the month of May 1013
Wedding of Archduchess Marie Valérie 1013
The wedding banquet 1014
Ischl : « Hôtel zur Post » (« Gasthof zur Post, Posthof ») 1016
Steyr : « Zeilberger's Gasthof Rother Krebs » 1017
The Lang family 1018
Private audience with the Emperor 1018
The Emperor is a quick eater 1020
The Emperor's dining habits 1021
« Tafelspitz » : The Emperor’s favourite dish 1022
1890 : Along the « Ringstraße » 1024
Begone, Satan ! 1025
Kamilla Wiesmair 1026
Louise and Lina Scherer 1026
Linz's perfumer 1026
Bruckner writes to Bernhard Deubler 1026
Robert Fuchs takes over 1027
The mission of Hugo Wolf 1027
Mahler meets Brahms 1028
Playing the organ in a medical clinic ! 1028 « At Gause » with the Stradals 1028
A picture from Hanslick ! 1029
Bruckner's stomach disorder 1029
Linz : Waterworks 1029
Wels : Archduke Otto of Austria meets Bruckner 1029
Doctor Schrötter's new patient 1030
New Year greetings to Göllerich 1030
Hugo Wolf about the 8th Symphony 1032
Leaving the Conservatory 1032
Bruckner writes to Felix Weingartner 1032
Hermann Levi writes to Bruckner 1033
A toast with May wine ! 1033
Bruckner struggles with meat 1034
At the « goldenen Kanone » on Sunday 1036
The cholera « morbus anti-semiticus » 1036
Hugo Wolf's sore throat 1038
Neufelden : Josefine Lang and Karoline Weilnböck 1038
The tragic ending of Pauline Theiler Silberstein 1041
WAB 45 : Berlin 1044
Berlin : « Hotel Der Kaiserhof » 1045 Berlin : Bruckner's swimming trunks 1046
Ida Buhz 1046
Berlin : The Prater Beer Garden 1048
WAB 107 : Max von Oberleithner and Ferdinand Löwe 1050
The illiterate « Frau Kathi » 1050
Cäcilie Kloppenburg 1050
Always great beer at the « Zur goldenen Kugel » 1050
The « Referendarius » 1051
1891 : Bruckner goes to Bayreuth 1051
Altheim : Meeting the Reischls 1052
The « Amen » from the Emperor 1054
Neuwaldegg : « Rohrer-Hütten » Inn 1055
Doctor Wilhelm Dlauhy 1055
Bruckner, the « professional » Symphonist 1056
Invitation to Hôtel Sacher 1056
Hôtel Sacher 1058
Bruckner thanks the Committee 1059
Ceremony at the « Sofiensaal » 1060
Göllerich's censored speech 1063
WAB 101 : Vienna version 1068
Bruckner and caviar 1070 Bruckner and Waldeck on marriage 1070
Hugo Wolf on Bruckner 1071
Vienna : Restaurant « Zum Weingartl » 1071
The anti-Semite Heinrich Josef Maria Abel 1073
Hugo Wolf : First recital in Berlin 1077
An invitation from Gisela 1080
Bruckner's 3 new physicians 1080
Doctor Guido von Török 1080
Doctor Friedrich Kraus 1080
Doctor Otto Kahler 1081
Bruckner's swollen feet 1085
Vienna : « Gasthaus Zur blauen Kugel » 1086
1892 : Bruckner goes to Bayreuth 1087
Bruckner's pretty table companion 1088
« Fräulein C. » 1088
Vienna : Female ballet-dancers of the Hamburg Opera 1089
Prater : « Schweizerhaus » 1089
Aurelia Stolzar 1092
The « Te Deum » dedicatee 1094
A medical certificate 1094 Meeting Doctor von Török at the « Riedhof » 1095
Doctor Theodor Billroth 1096
The Nicodés pay a visit 1101
Jesus, Mary, Joseph ! 1101
A new doctor to treat influenza 1101
Bruckner’s favourite wine 1102
Wine from Klosterneuburg monastery 1103
Brahms and Bruckner (Natalie Bauer-Lechner) 1105
Otto Mahler quits 1105
Hugo Wolf catches a catarrh 1105
Richard Strauß's pneumonia 1105
Preference for home cooking - gladly with edges of fat 1107
Father « Oddo » Loidol's illness 1107
Eating at the Eibenschutzs 1108
Steyr : The « Karlsbad Cure » 1109
Anna Rogl 1111
A 10th Symphony 1112
Mahler flees a cholera epidemic 1112
University of Vienna : Winter Semester (1892-1893) 1112
Wolf's usual propaganda 1112
« At Gause » with very bad swollen feet 1112 Consulting Doctor Schrötter 1113
Kremsmünster : The mill-owner's daughter 1113
Hanging the doctor's note 1113
Offering 48 « krapfen » to Hans Richter 1114
Johann Strauß II invites Bruckner for a drink 1116
Otto Kitzler conducts the « Romantic » 1116
The Viennese's collective consciousness 1117
Vienna : Bruckner, Mahler and the right-wing movement 1117
Theodor Helm pays tribute to Bruckner 1122
Returning to the « Red Hedgehog » 1122
Bed rest and diet 1122
Doctor Carl Riedel 1123
Death of Father Loidol 1126
Back on his feet 1127
Bruckner's upper-arm dislocation 1127
Bruckner gives news to Kitzler 1127
WAB 26 : The Bayer-Bruckner duo 1128
In bed for the next 3 weeks 1128
Bruckner gave me hell and tortured me 1128
Meet the doctor, Thursday 1129 Money, meat and stationery 1129
Philomena Tischler 1129
A lot to talk about 1129
Johann Langthaler's horse 1130
Mahler on Brahms and Bruckner 1130
Mental effort is prohibited 1130
Wedding of Karl Almeroth 1130
1893 : Mahler visits Brahms in Ischl 1131
1893 : Bruckner goes to Bayreuth 1131
Wagner's barber : Bernhard Schnappauf 1131
Ignaz Putz 1132
« Astra » 1133
Flowers for Irma 1136
No entries in the pocket calendar 1136
Death of Hellmesberger 1136
Monday university lecture cancelled 1136
Severe dyspnea 1137
Concert plans for Berlin 1137
Drafting the will 1137
Doctor Richard Paltauf 1139
Cultures of death and politics of corpse supply 1144 Last university lectures 1174
Doctor Schrötter's visits 1175
Heading for Klosterneuburg 1175
Ignaz comes to Vienna for the holidays 1175
A strict nurse for Bruckner 1175
Doctor Schrötter and the Berlin trip 1175
Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch 1176
The Berlin Trip (1894) 1177
Hugo Wolf Society : 10th anniversary 1187
At the grave of Heinrich von Kleist 1188
Margarethe Boucher 1188
Death of Theodor Billroth 1188
Margarethe wants a reply from Bruckner 1189
Increased honorary fee 1189
Doctor Theodor Escherich 1190
Vienna : Wolf visits Bruckner 1199
Berlin : Female journalist Mrs. Sommerfeld 1200
University of Vienna : Summer Semester (1894) 1200
Bruckner at a Pentecost celebration 1200
2 visits by Amelie Klose 1200
The pretty neighbour from « Hôtel de France » 1200 Great soup, Theresia ! 1201
« Frau Kathi » sends clothes 1201
Doctor Alexander Ritter von Weißmayr 1201
Franz Holzlbuber 1203
« Sali » misses her brother 1203
Bruckner at 70 1203
Christine Brezina 1203
Cold weather and doctors 1204
Doctor Viktor Klotz 1204
Doctor Hermann G. Klotz 1206
Hugo Wolf and the 9th Symphony 1210
Greetings from the Vienna « Tonkünstlerverein » 1213
Not seriously ill but very weakened 1213
Fall Semester : First university lecture 1213
Schrötter's silver wedding anniversary 1213
Hearing the F minor Mass, again 1214
The last university lectures 1214
Composing at night 1215
Missing Hugo Wolf 1215
Death of Josef Hyrtl 1216
Josef Hyrtl 1216 Meißner's entry on moving 1226
Wilhelm von Wartenegg 1226
Wolf talks about an upcoming Bruckner concert 1227
The last sacraments for the second time 1227
Beatification of Franz-Josef Rüdigier 1228
Health reports 1228
Vienna academic Wagner Society : Celebration concert 1229
The Schmied sisters 1229
Spending Christmas at Klosterneuburg 1229
Pleurisy inflammation 1229
Preparing to move 1230
Another quick recuperation 1230
Paying the lawyer 1230
Karl Almeroth writes an article 1230
Hanslick's Memoirs 1231
Brahms and Hanslick 1231
Mathias Salcher & Söhne 1232
Mathias Salcher 1233
Anton Meißner's second job 1234
Upper-Belvedere : The saga of moving 1234 Suicide of the talented brother 1238
Mahler conducts Bruckner 1239
Hugo Wolf shooting birds 1240
Reducing the milk diet 1240
Working on « Der Corregidor » 1240
The first monograph 1241
Meißner stays after midnight 1242
The stubborn Bruckner 1243
Doctor Viktor Eisenmenger 1243
Franz Marschner's application 1245
Franz Ludwig Marschner 1246
Joseph Karabacek 1247
Mahler and bicycle riding 1248
University of Vienna : Summer Semester (1895) 1249
Ludwig Rochlitzer 1249
Offering the pedal harmonium 1250
Karl Lueger 1251
Concert in Monaco 1251
Sketching the Finale 1252
Josef Schantl's tips : meat and beer ! 1254
« Prix » , a Bruckner supporter 1255
Losing his temper 1257 Prisoner of his flat 1258
The consecrated water from the Capuchin Church 1258
Bach's excavated skull 1259
Return to the milk diet 1259
The last flame 1259
Moritz Sechter visits Bruckner 1259
Too disturbing for the « Schloßkapelle » 1259
The Belvedere Palace Chapel 1259
St. Michael's Church 1260
The executor's address 1262
Well but weak 1262
Doctor George Wolf 1262
Doctor von Weißmayr on vacation 1264
Doctor Heller writes to his « fiancée » 1264
1895 : Mahler visits Brahms in Ischl 1264
The Monte Carlo project 1264
Giving news to his brother 1265
Summer without any discomfort 1265
Bruckner plays to Doctor Heller 1265
The annual grant 1266
Resuming his lectures 1267
Visit of a university student 1267 Pocket calendar entries 1267
Bruckner can no longer eat chocolate 1268
The uncle of Ernestine Korda 1268
Must see Ernestine again 1268
Leopold Schönchen 1268
Waldeck pays tribute to Bruckner 1269
Ignaz wants to come to Vienna 1269
Writing to Ernestine Korda 1270
Bruckner, the godfather 1270
Steyr's hair-dresser : Josef (« Sepp ») Stöger 1271
Bruckner's possessions 1273
Doctor Lorenz's address 1273
Berlin : Mahler conducts the « Resurrection » 1273
Help from Wilhelm Jahn 1274
Sacrament of death in succession 1274
WAB 109 : Final choir 1274
Undated New Year greetings 1274
Hans Stadler 1274
New Year greetings to Kitzler 1275
« Now, it’s all too late » 1275
Brahms recommends the « Te Deum » 1276 Vienna academic Wagner Society 1276
Vienna New Richard Wagner Society 1284
Wolf and the Wagner Society 1290
The Hugo Wolf Society 1293
« Indisposition » or « disease » 1295
The last 8 months 1295
Doctor Lorenz prescribes hip baths 1296
Doctor Adolf Lorenz 1298
Ida Krzyżanowski-Doxat 1307
Death of Prince Hohenlohe-Shillingstfürst 1308
Richter visits Bruckner 1308
Another performance of the « Te Deum » 1309
Linz : The « Romantic » 1309
Kitzler conducts the Second 1310
Concert sponsored by the « Schubertbund » 1310
Bruckner's last public appearance 1310
Holy Week celebrations 1311
Signing a student-book 1311
Oberleithner visits Bruckner 1311
Godfather again 1311
Help from Kathi's daughter 1312 Praise from Hugo Wolf 1312
Josef Schalk visits Bruckner 1312
Brahms' liver and pancreas 1312
Doctor Hermann Nothnagel 1313
Mayfeld and Richter visit Bruckner 1315
Praying more and more 1316
Premiere of « Der Corregidor » 1316
Monthly payment 1318
Wolf and Margarete Klinckerfuß 1318
Ferdinand Löwe writes to Bruckner 1318
University of Vienna : Summer Semester (1896) 1319
Monthly payment 1319
Brahms and the « Resurrection Symphony » 1319
« Italienisches Liederbuch » 1320
Publication of the « Libera me » (WAB 22) 1320
The « Kustodenstöckl » picture 1320
Confused 1321
Unconscious and delirious 1321
Mahler visits Brahms for the last time 1321
Wedding of Josef Schalk 1321
Paying Cyrill Hynais 1321 Telegramm to Franz Bayer 1321
Heller and Schrötter meeting 1322
The last sacraments 1322
Incredibly well 1322
Infuriated with Doctor Heller 1323
A certificate in 2 copies 1323
Composing the promised chorale 1324
The international newspapers 1325
Visit from Doctor Heller 1325
Surprisingly in good condition 1325
Dedicating the chorale 1325
Ignaz's Name-Day 1326
Feeling abandoned 1326
Reinhold von Lichtenberg 1327
Out of bed and composing again 1328
Increasing mental confusion and degradation 1329
The nurse is fed-up 1329
Kitzler's final visit 1329
Wolf plays Bruckner 1329
Doctor Schrötter back from vacation 1329 Newspapers' updates 1329
A photograph for Heller 1330
Ignaz's silence 1330
Return of the university lecturer 1330
Doctor Heller goes on vacation 1330
Doctor Josef Sorgo 1331
Doctor Schrötter visits Bruckner 1335
Able to receive visitors 1335
Outside for a short walk 1336
Improvement 1336
Standing outside by the window 1336
Happy Birthday from Vöcklabruck 1336
Death of Frieda von Lipperheide 1336
Stopping noting prayers 1337
« Le Ménestrel » reports 1337
Doctor Heller is back from vacation 1337
Don't let them in ! 1337
No lectures 1337
Nurse Anna Ortner 1338
Noting prayers again 1338 « Friendship » 1338
Wolf and Bruckner supporters 1338
Mahler and the « Hofoper » 1338
The Schalk brothers 1339
Katharina Prechal 1339
Improvement 1339
Kathi's plum dumpling 1339
Wolf's last visit 1340
Rosa Mayreder 1340
Outside walks 1342
3-day gap 1343
Doctor Heller's daughter 1343
So long, farewell 1343
Visit from Doctor von Weißmayr 1343
Death of Bruckner 1343
Doctor Karl Böhm-Böhmersheim 1346
An affected Wolf 1347
The Bruckner Estate 1347
Formalin embalming of Bruckner 1348
Mummification of Bruckner 1350
From the « Kustodenstöckl » to the « Karlskirche » 1351 « Karlskirche » : Funeral ceremony 1351
From the « Karlskirche » to the « Westbahnhof » 1354
St. Florian : Funeral ceremony 1354
The aftermath 1355
« Wiener Salonblatt » : Ferry Bératon 1356
The Academic Society of Vienna thanks Ferdinand Löwe 1356
« Schloßkapelle » : Memorial celebration 1356
District Court approval 1356
Richter conducts Bruckner 1357
A pocket calendar sheet 1357
Cleaning the Upper-Belvedre apartment 1357
Last payment to « Frau Kathi » and her daughter 1357
Kitzler conducts the « Te Deum » 1357
Signing the « affidavit » 1358
Doctor Garbe from Mannheim 1358
Josef Tautenhayn 1358
Franz Antoine 1360
Rudolf Klingsbögl 1361
Heinrich Schönchen 1361
Bruckner at the Vienna Museum 1361 Ignaz writes to August Stradal 1361
Bruckner immortalized at the Hall of Fame 1362
A moment of silence 1364
Declaration of cancellation 1364
Maintenance of Bruckner's grave 1364
Wolf visits the Upper-Belvedere apartment 1365
Kathi's inheritance 1365
Fulfillment of the will 1365
Death of « Sali » 1365
Common grave in St. Florian 1365
Death of Ignaz 1366
Brahms : Final illness 1366
Doctor Josef Toelg 1380
Death of Brahms 1387
Brahms' funeral 1388
Doctor Ludwig Boër 1394
Mahler : 2 very bad months 1394
Doctor Julius Hochenegg 1395
Mahler : Second operation for hemorrhoids 1399
Mahler : Third operation for hemorrhoids 1400 Mahler : Fourth operation for hemorrhoids 1401
Vienna : Lœw Sanatorium 1401
Doctor Anton Lœw 1403
Doctor Gustav Singer 1407
The illness of Hugo Wolf 1408
Dentist Heinrich Potpeschnigg 1408
Doctor Wilhelm Svetlin 1417
Death of Hugo Wolf 1436
Mahler's hand in plaster 1438
Edmund von Hellmer 1440
Melanie Köchert 1440
Death of Eduard Hanslick 1441
Doctor Albert Neisser and Mahler 1445
1909 : Gustav, Alma and Eusapia Palladino 1447
Leyden : Mahler meets Freud 1449
Mahler's final illness 1452
Doctor Carl Viktor Blumenthal 1453
Doctor Friedrich Kovacs 1454
Doctor Richard von Nepalleck 1456
Doctor Heinrich Lahmann 1456 1907 : Mahler visits Paris 1470
New York : Hotel « Majestic » 1470
1909 : Mahler visits Paris 1471
Doctor Joseph Fränkel 1473
Doctor Emanuel Libman 1474
Doctor George Baehr 1480
Doctor André Chantemesse 1483
Doctor Jean-Joseph Defaut 1485
Paris : « Hôtel Élysée Palace » 1484
Doctor Franz Chvostek junior 1486
Doctor Armin Czinner 1488
Death of Mahler 1490
Mahler's funeral 1492
At Mahler's grave 1493
Doctor Joseph Fränkel : Obituary 1493