Mozart lost and found

Go to St Michael’s Church, Vienna, for a glimpse of Mozart’s world.

The musical surgeon: Theodor Billroth

On the streets of Vienna in the mid-1880s, you could bump into Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, or Gustav Mahler.

Do I Hear A Waltz?

Do I Hear A Waltz? is the title of the show by Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim written in 1965 after the death of Oscar Hammerstein. It tells the story of spinster Leona Damish who knows she will recognise true love when she finally hears a waltz that she has long imagined. But why a waltz?

Coffee – A Turkish blessing on Vienna

Such is the prestige of Viennese coffee houses that at the end of 2011 UNESCO qualified them as an intangible cultural heritage, places “where time and space are consumed, but only the coffee is found on the bill.”

Gustav Klimt: Master of pattern and colour

Gustav Klimt is best known for his vividly coloured, subtly erotic portraits, illustrations and friezes. It is often forgotten that he also painted 54 landscapes – no less than a quarter of his entire output.

A Mozartian pilgrimage (Vienna)

The day after Mozart died on 5 December 1791, his funeral took place in St Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna, and his body was removed for burial to St Marx’s cemetery in a nearby suburb. No one cared to see or, later, to find out the last resting place of music’s greatest genius.