Today is the anniversary of Franz Schubert's death.

Joseph Lanner was definitely out of this world.

This was done at my request. My uncle, who was a big Matador collector, would be very proud. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_...

My biggest #cactus plants will spend the next six months in absolute darkness.

The grave of Josef Kainz (1858-1910). The legendary actor is now a tree.

The court jeweller and Großhändler Johann Michael von Grosser (1700-1784) was a subscriber of a box at the Burgtheater. This painting of Grosser by Martin van Meytens is held by the Nationalmuseum Stockholm. Grosser's tomb in the Groß Siegharts parish church is a work of Karl Georg Merville.

The marriage certificate of the hornist Johann Hörmann (1748-1816), who on 20 January 1778, in Lichtental, married Antonia Gabalier, Catarina Cavalieri's sister. Elisabeth Cavalier (1765-1824), another sister of Cavalieri, also married a hornist, namely Willibald Lother (1762-1844).

Music from my cellphone.

A letter by architect Rudolf Perco to the Austrian Meteorological Society concerning its prize competition regarding a method to forecast the weather for a time of several months. This is so strange (and possibly tongue-in-cheek) that it is funny.

Music from my cellphone.

Gustav Gugitz must inform posterity with his ballpoint pen that he has found Franz Steinsberg von Guolfinger in the 1799 Hauptregistratur.

What my weekend work looks like.

This summons from 1844 is funny. Who wouldn't gladly return from New Orleans to Einsiedl in Western Bohemia?

The earliest surviving Gewährbuch of St. Theobald Abbey on the Laimgrube.

A list of music pieces that were performed at court on January 10, 1813, on the occasion of the Leopoldsordensfest. This document is special because it contains the duration of the individual pieces in minutes. Anton Weidinger obviously played the first movement of Haydn's trumpet concerto.

On 30 May 1738, the Court Chamber was ordered to pay the heirs of Nicola Mattheis junior the remainder of his annual salary of 1,440 gulden up to and including the day of his death on 23 October 1737.

The earliest documentary traces of a new theater building.

When I was only 45 years of age.

In 1788 Vienna being a "Mohr" was considered a profession.

The beginning of a new, stupid custom: orchestras are now being asked to give a name to a #Mozart symphony they are recording!

The seal of Bartholomäus Zitterbarth. A name like that of a person in a Ferdinand Raimund play.

This is not fake. This journal really exists.

A medical report from a Viennese doctor from 1842

On a photo from 1885 we see the painter Rudolf von Alt on the far right painting the Faßzieherhaus (die "Rondelle"). When the old house was replaced with a new building in 1899, the architectural tradition was so strong that the new building also received a round bay window

In July 1791, Leopold Hofmann recommended Mathias Altmütter as the successor to the deceased violinist Markus Hofer. Hofmann emphasized that Altmütter possessed "the tone required for such a large church" ("daß dieser eine für eine so große Kirchen erforderliche ausgiebigende Intonnation besizet").

An unknown letter from Franz Lehar to an unknown editor-in-chief about the beginning of Lehar's work on "Paganini". This document is in private hands.

Antonio Salieri's list of the best of 14 boys who took part in the audition for the court chapel on September 30, 1806. There was certainly such a list from 1808 with Schubert's name on it, but it was apparently already stolen in the 19th century.

On 2 March 1843, in the old hall of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Gaetano Donizetti conducted a performance of Bach's Piano Concerto in d minor with Joseph Fischhof as soloist.

Johann Georg Purebl, father of the clarinettist Joseph Purebl (1768-1838), was born in 1739, in Reichenhall, illegitimate son of Johann "Puröber" and Josepha Gurkher. Joseph Purebl was transferred in a hurry from Salzburg to Vienna in 1807 to replace Johann Stadler who had died in 1804.

Gustav Gugitz had to tell posterity with his ballpen that he knows the first names of the architect Skruppi.

Lukas Haselböck ist so rührend ahnunglos, dass er immer noch glaubt, Ignaz von Gleichenstein sei Cellist gewesen. oe1.orf.at/player/20251...

In 1801, a complaint was filed to the Vienna municipal court that appraisers, who were also auctioneers, had themselves acquired pieces from these estates. The court delivered an order to the head of the Sperrskommissäre, secretary Joseph Setznagel which contains the following wonderful sentence.

A legendary photo. michaelorenzphotography.blogspot.com/2014/11/vien...

Antonio Salieri's daughter Anna only died in 1868.

Today I went through my father's military records in the Archives of the Republic and found a photo of him that I had never seen.

Music from my cellphone.

Today is the 34th birthday of my daughter Magdalena.

Pietro di Galvagni (1797-1868) owned a collection of 172 paintings that were estimated at 25,421 gulden. A 10th of this amount alone consisted of Louis Gallait's "The Last Moments of Count Egmont" from 1848. Today this painting is owned by the Hermitage Museum.

A priceless letter by Arthur Schurig who rightly criticised Frimmel's "Apothekerdeutsch" and confusedness (Frimmel was very sick in 1926). The statement "Seit Thayer ist eigentlich nichts geschehen" still holds some truth. Droßdik's biography was eventually written 73 years later by yours truly.

A gathering of Graf Johann Ferdinand III. von Kuefstein, Paul Wranizky "Soc. Secret.", and Antonio Salieri "M d. C".

Flurnamen in the table of contents of a land register of the Hütteldorf parish from 1687.

A baptismal certificate, issued in 1818, by the parish of St. Florian in Matzleinsdorf. I still remember seeing this magnificent church which was located in the middle of the Wiedner Hauptstraße. It was torn down in 1965.

There's a deep relation between the Andante grazioso of Beethoven's op. 31 No.1 and the finale of Haydn's op. 54 No. 2. youtu.be/Y3hIYlEEx3I?...

An entry in the notebook of Mathias Zehrnpfennig, warden of the Währinger Ortsfriedhof, concerning the reimbursement from the city treasury for the decoration of Beethoven's grave on November 1st and 2nd, 1882.