Jan 18, 2014

The "Kulturamt der Stadt Wien" Responds

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Hubert Christian Ehalt , head of the science department of the City of Vienna's Department of Culture , has belatedly responded to my en...
Dec 22, 2013

The Wienbibliothek Responds

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The Wienbibliothek has responded to my query as to why the prayer books of Schubert's sister Maria Theresia Schneider and her daughter ...
Dec 3, 2013

The Wienbibliothek Buys its Own Property

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The eminent Viennese music collector and scholar Ignaz Weinmann (1897–1976) left his collection and musical estate to the (then) Wiener Stad...
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Oct 31, 2013

Franz Anton Maulbertsch's Altarpiece for the Trattnerhof Chapel

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As I described in a blogpost in September, Franz Anton Maulbertsch in 1777 did the painting for the main altar of St. George's Chapel ...
Oct 20, 2013

Das Forschungsprojekt "W. A. Mozart und sein Wiener Umfeld": Mozartforschung in Wien am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts

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The reason for the recent short hiatus on this blog is the following detailed review article (in German, the language of Mozart): Das Fors...
Sep 29, 2013

Tadeusz Krzeszowiak: Freihaustheater in Wien 1787-1801 (Vienna: Böhlau, 2009)

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The following is an extended version of a review that I published in 2010 on the Web and in the Newsletter of the Mozart Society of America ...
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Sep 12, 2013

Carl Thomas Mozart's Original Baptismal Entry

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Mozart's second child Carl Thomas was born on 21 September 1784, in the Trattnerhof on the Graben.  The Trattnerhof in 1910, seen...
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Sep 8, 2013

Mozart in the Trattnerhof

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The Trattnerhof On 27 May 1773, the publisher and printer Johann Thomas von Trattner was granted permission by the City Council of Vienna...
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