I
couldn't visit Vienna without making the pilgrimage to see Beethoven,
Brahms and Schubert in their final resting places. Luckily, the
Zentralfriedhof is on the line out to the airport, making a visit to
Vienna's central cemetery very easy. You've got to have the legs for
it, though: the cemetery covers a slightly larger area than the city
centre and, if you walk from one side to the other, like I did with
my suitcase, you'll get a good workout to boot. Luckily for you, I
took some snaps of the composers I found.
Mozart's
memorial. Mozart is actually buried up the road, near a big motorway
junction. Yes, we do know where he is buried, though the precise
plot isn't known.
Beethoven,
sitting just behind the Mozart memorial and next to Schubert. The
two were exhumed from their original graves and reburied here in the
late nineteenth century. Apparently, Bruckner had to be dragged away
from their corpses. Nice.
Schubert,
to the right of Beethoven's grave.
Brahms,
looking a bit worried, as you'd expect.
Hugo
Wolf, looking a little like he'd expected there to be the body of a
muscle man painted below the hole for his head.
An
appropriately modernist grave for Arnold Schoenberg.
Zemlinsky,
with the shiniest grave in the cemetery.
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