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Memorial Houses
Vienna abounds in the former
residences of famous composers.
They are not all of great
architectural merit, and their
interest resides mainly in the
exhibits they contain. The
Pasqualatihaus was one of
Beethoven’s many Viennese
residences – it was here that he
composed the opera Fidelio –
and it now houses portraits and
other mementoes of the great
composer. The Heiligenstadt
Testament House (at No. 6 Courtyard of the Heiligenstadt Testament House
Probusgasse, Heiligenstadt),
where Beethoven stayed in letters, manuscripts, personal Freud Museum houses
an attempt to cure his possessions and the composer’s furnishings, documents and
deafness, is now a memorial. two pianos. Mozart and his photographs, and the consult-
The first-floor apartment of family lived from 1784 to 1787 ing room is as it looked when
the Haydn Museum in in the Mozarthaus Vienna. Sigmund Freud used to see
Haydngasse is pleasantly This is where Mozart wrote his patients. It is also used as
furnished and filled with The Marriage of Figaro. The a study centre.

Decorative Details
Many of the historic houses and palaces of Vienna Finding the Palaces
were built during a period corresponding to the and Houses
Baroque and late Baroque styles of architecture. Belvedere pp154–9
Details such as window hoods and pediments over Dreimäderlhaus p133
doorways were often extremely ornate. Ferstel Palace p112
Freud Museum p112
Geymüllerschlössel p162
Zum Blauen Karpfen p82
Haydn Museum p143
Hermesvilla p173
Caryatid on the Hofburg pp98–103
doorway of the Josefstadt pp116–17
Liechtenstein Palace Kinsky Palace p112
Kurrentgasse p88
Liechtenstein Garden Palace p113
Liechtenstein Town Palace p106
Lobkowitz Palace p106
Decorative window hood on the façade of Mozarthaus Vienna p78
the Trautson Palace Naglergasse p96
Neidhart Fresco House p95
Obizzi Palace p88
Pasqualatihaus p133
Rasumofsky Palace,
Rasumofskygasse 23–25,
Landstrasse.
Schönborn-Batthyány
Decorative urns on the Decorative pediment with shield on the Palace p111
Lobkowitz Palace Schönborn-Batthyány Palace Schönbrunn Palace pp174–7
Schwarzenberg Palace p152
Spittelberg p119
Trautson Palace p118
Villa Primavesi p187
Villa Wertheimstein, Döblinger
Hauptstrasse 96. Map 1 B1.
Winter Palace of Prince
Eugene p82
Stucco putti on the façade of Zum Blauen Karpfen

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