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In Vienna
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Did Mozart meet Beethoven,
in the city?
(Very) possibly. (Almost) certainly. Yes.
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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. Did they get on? No, they didn't.
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Did Schubert admire Beethoven?
Yes, Schubert was so much 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?
Eventually yes and it was Schubert who would later carry the
great composer on his shoulder (he was one of the four pallbearers
at Beethoven's funeral).
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What happened next?
After Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert were gone the Habsburg
dynasty was finally challenged by a second dynasty which 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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