Friday 09 June 2017, last day in Vienna before departing for Florence. Spent a leisurely morning, watched the British election results on TV (to my amazement).
Then headed for the Beethoven Pasqualatihaus. Beethoven made the 4th floor of this house his home from 1804 to 1814. He reputedly occupied about 80 places in his 35 years in Vienna - apparently he was a difficult tenant!
This landlord must have liked Beethoven though, because he kept the house for him even when he was away. The name of the house comes from this owner. It was a very lo-key museum, and the gift shop was closed for some weeks.
But this was worth reverence, Beethoven's piano:
From there I wandered through the Stadtpark gardens where there are tributes to the many composers who lived in Vienna at one time or another. You will have seen this most famous one, of Johann Strauss junior.
Next was the Vienna Mozart house - the best of the three Mozart houses I visited. It was extremely well laid out, with information I could follow, and touching memorabilia.
Friday pizza followed, but I'm going to put those on another page - all of their own. This evening's booking was for the Wiener Mozart Konzerte performed by the Wiener Mozart Orchester at the Musikverein - a stunning venue (which was the reason for this booking). This is the tourist number - Mozart favourites, and badly behaving tourists who take no notice of the warnings about photographs, etc. Here's the stunning interior:
And after the performance, the exterior:
