We first went to Beethoven's house:
Close up on the plaque:
Notice that this was the house in which he wrote Symphony #5. And Number 6! The Pastoral Symphony :)
We walk in to the building at about 9:55. The museum opens at 10, but everything looked dead quiet. There was a paper sign on a door which said 'Beethoven's Apartment, Fourth Floor': we then realized that this is still an actual apartment building. People live downstairs from where Beethoven used to live! That completely blew my mind. I was also wondering if this was the house and the time period of Beethoven's life which the movie 'Beethoven Lives Upstairs' was based on, but I don't know.
So, we went through the door, and there were no lights on at all. The whole stair well was pitch black. The flash on my camera makes the staircase look less sketchy than it actually was:
We walked up the stairs, and got to the fourth floor and found a door that said in small lettering 'Beethoven's Apartment'. It was odd how low-key this was in comparison to Mozart's house.
The museum was free because it was the first Sunday of the month! Alternatively, we got in for free because it was July 4th - not. Good timing on Alison and my part!
Beethoven's piano!
From Beethoven's house we took the subway down towards Haydn's house, which is a little more removed from the central part of the city. Back in Haydn's time, it was more of a suburb of the city. He moved to that house when he was old, and died there. He also had a parrot - the house had this recording that played parrot noises sporadically. Kind of creepy.
Haydn's piano!
Haydn's other piano!
A chair in the Brahms room in Haydn's house (confusing). I have decided that I want chairs in my house with music written on them.
From here we took a train over to Schonbrunn Palace!
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