Aug 15, 2023

Upcoming Posts


  • A Strauss Miscellany 
  • Johann Heinrich Schmelzer's Coat of Arms
  • Elias Canetti in Grinzing
  • "Nun ist es unwidersprechlich, daß, nachdem das Weib immer den Anordnungen des Mannes unterlieget, derselbe auch die Gelegenheit sie durch mehrfältige Näckereien und Unfugen zu quällen in Handen habe." Leopold Kozeluch the Wife Beater
  • Unknown Documents concerning Oskar Kokoschka's 1912 Marriage Attempts
  • The Chess Master Karl Hamppe: A Short Biography
  • At the Grave of Adolf Schwarz
  • A Concert Report in the Diary of Carl Ludwig Costenoble
  • The Death of Chess Master Julius Perlis
  • The Will of Carl Ferdinand Pohl
  • A Donizetti Discovery
  • The Rediscovery of Carl Czerny's original Will
  • Two Seals of Joseph Haydn
  • A Seal of Franz Schubert?
  • A Rediscovered Lanner Autograph

This list is not complete. For obvious reasons some topics of research cannot be revealed in advance.



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