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In Vienna
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Did Mozart meet Beethoven,
in the city?
(Very) possibly. (Almost) certainly. Okay, yes he did.
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Did Haydn know Mozart?
Yes, he was a friend and a father figure.
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Did Mozart teach Beethoven?
Almost.
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Did Haydn teach Beethoven?
Yes, he did.
And did they get on?
No, they did not.
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Did Schubert admire Beethoven?
He hero-worshipped him. Schubert was so in awe of Beethoven,
that when he once saw him sitting alone in a Viennese coffeehouse
he was unable to approach him to introduce himself.
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Did Schubert meet Beethoven?
Yes, and Beethoven admired Schubert right back. It was Schubert
who would carry Beethoven on his shoulder (Schubert was a pallbearer
at his funeral).
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What happened next?
Well, after Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert were gone
the Habsburgs were finally challenged by a second family who
would surpass it in popularity and eventually outlast it.
Cue Strauss dynasty.
Joseph Haydn,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Ludwig
van Beethoven,
Franz
Schubert,
the Strauss dynasty (including Johann
Strauss, the son), Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Arnold
Schönberg
and many others all lived and worked in Vienna making the city
from the 18th century into a cultural centre of Europe rivalling
Paris and London.
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"There is music in the air."
Edward Elgar
(1857-1934)
In R. J. Buckley's
Sir Edward Elgar (1905)
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Musical interludes
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