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Um welche Uhrzeit pflegte Kaiser Franz Joseph aufzustehen?

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The longed-for position at court: Mozart as Imperial-Royal Court Composer

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Edouard Hamman: Mozart at the spinet, performing selections from *Don Giovanni* for the first time to a small company
Playbill advertising the premiere of Mozart’s *Cosí fan tutte* at the old Burgtheater on 26 January 1790

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- The longed-for position at court: Mozart as Imperial-Royal Court Composer
  - W.A. Mozart: *Don Giovanni*, K. 527, overture, Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zurich Opera House Orchestra, 2002
  - W.A. Mozart: *Don Giovanni*, K. 527, ‘La ci darem la mano’, sung by Cecilia Bartoli and Bryn Terfel, 1999
  - W. A. Mozart: *Don Giovanni*, K. 527, final scene, Bryn Terfel, 2006
  - The longed-for position at court: Mozart as Imperial-Royal Court Composer
    - Edouard Hamman: Mozart at the spinet, performing selections from *Don Giovanni* for the first time to a small company
    - Playbill advertising the premiere of Mozart’s *Cosí fan tutte* at the old Burgtheater on 26 January 1790
- La clemenza di Tito – but no clemency for Mozart
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- With needle and thread – The invention of the sewing machine
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- If you earn money you can go shopping – The link between the manufactories and consumerism
- St Nicholas’ Day gifts and a fortune ‘under the mattress’ – What Maria Theresa earned and did with her money
- More state, less private enterprise. Or: Marrying can make you rich!
- The ‘fat lady’ in Ethiopia - Maria Theresa’s likeness on its travels
- Money of paper – Financial necessity is the mother of invention
- Let speculation commence ... The founding of the Vienna Stock Exchange
- Joseph II’s ‘sacred’ plough – The Emperor as farmer
- Survey the country and put a tax on land – The Josephinian land register was used for a new system of taxation
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- Dead sparrows and prayers against locusts – Measures to increase yields
- What is put on the table is eaten! A short history of the potato
- Attention: End of customs area! Customs borders as economic obstacles
- Tolls are not there for fun – Anyone going on a journey had to pay tolls
- Who is protected by protective tariffs? Sealing off the Monarchy as a form of economic programme
- At the Hungarian border things came to a stop – Hungary is given the role of the Monarchy’s granary
- Go forth and multiply! The Habsburgs’ human capital
- Measure the masses – Of ‘descriptions of souls’ and house numbers
- More people – Population growth in the Monarchy
- For the happiness of the population? State welfare and tax systems
- It is not (only) a matter of size – The population must work more
- The last knight: Maximilian I
- Sympathetic towards Protestants: Maximilian II
- The Habsburg ‘fraternal quarrel’: Rudolf II against Matthias
- The tripartite division of the Austrian inheritance
- Charles V and the empire ‘on which the sun never set’
- The birth of the Austrian line: Ferdinand I
- Maximilian and the preservation of his memory
- 28 The ‘Black Men’ and an emperor
- A medieval ‘freelancer’: Albrecht Dürer
- The ‘completer’: Ferdinand I
- Depicting imperial might in pictures – with fruit
- Who am I?
- The horn of a unicorn and the Holy Grail: the Habsburg treasure
- Theatrum mundi: the whole world contained in a single chamber
- The Ambras Kunstkammer
- The Kunst- und Wunderkammer of Emperor Rudolf II
- Collecting among the middle classes
- Systematization: how the Habsburg art collections came to form the basis of modern museums
- The counter-reformers: Charles II of Inner Austria and Ferdinand II
- Art and the Thirty Years’ War
- Monastic institutions in Austria
- Foreign dominance in the Austrian painting sector
- A house in the country
- Stately architecture – Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
- The importance of art and artists for the Habsburgs
- Freelance artists in the sixteenth century
- Working at Court I: pro and contra
- Working at Court II: conditions of production
- Art in the service of power
- Marry me – the functions of portraiture
- The beloved family
- This portrait is enchanting fair – portraiture as a source of income
- Private insights
- The fascination of the past
- An anthem for the emperor
- Franz Joseph’s portrait
- Money from the ‘New World’ – sources of money and taxation under the Habsburgs
- Wars are an expensive business – Defence against the Turks as a burden on Habsburg finances
- Turning lead into silver – Experiments in alchemy at the Imperial Court
- ‘Sponsored by Fugger’ – Trading houses as financial backers
- (In)voluntary loans – The Jews as financial backers
- White gold – The Habsburgs’ salt monopoly
- Salt sites – Where the Habsburgs produced their salt
- The land of silver and coins – Mining silver and minting coins in Tyrol
- Old iron – The iron and arms industries in the early modern period
- The knife’s edge – Scythes and knives as big sellers
- Merry on wine and beer – Tales of inns and taverns
- Brewing beer, growing wine and providing revenue for the authorities – Of breweries and vineyards
- Aristocrats with a sweet tooth – How chocolate ‘conquered’ Vienna
- Therapeutic, luxurious and a stimulant – Coffee and tea are put on the menu
- As sweet as sugar – from luxury item to article of mass consumption
- The joys of smoking versus addiction to tobacco – From nobleman to farmer’s wife, smoking is for everyone
- When non-smoking threatened the Monarchy – The non-smokers of Lombardy
- Good sight – Spectacles are put on noses
- Measuring time – Of large tower clocks and small pocket watches
- Punctual town dwellers, timeless peasants, leisurely women – Or: why clock time is not for everyone
- A look at the starry heavens – Sights and insights through the telescope
- Oxen at knock-down prices - peasant levies
- Fish on the table – Fish ponds as a source of income
- Rags and rag collectors – On making paper
- Crystal clear – Glass production in the early modern period
- Speculation in foodstuffs in the early modern period – The links between weather, manorial estates and grain prices
- Guaranteed cheap and definitely not stolen – Flea markets in the early modern period
- Everything one’s heart desires – Europe’s commercial arteries
- Of markets and fairs – and their importance for trade
- Not a global player after all – On overseas trade
- The Court as ‘liberator’ – Of Court craftsmen and craftsmen ‘exempted by the Court’
- Worries about the younger generation: Charles VI
- Reforming zeal in the Baroque: Joseph I
- Another Ferdinand: Ferdinand III
- Leopold I: ‘Türkenpoldl’
- Persecutor of the Protestants: Ferdinand II
- A question of priorities
- Vienna Gloriosa: The grandiose projects of Charles VI
- The Ceremonial Apartments
- The Presidential Chancellery and the long shadow of the double eagle
- The subtle distinction: Court Ball and Ball at Court
- The public banquet – a visual feast for the crowd
- The Court as the source of power
- A closed society
- Noblesse oblige – aristocratic career paths
- Faith and power – the nobility and the Catholic Church
- Vienna – the city as stage for the display of aristocratic status
- Governors thrown out of window
- The Czech trauma of Bílá Hora
- Emperor Ferdinand II intoxicated by power
- ‘Heja Sverige’: The Swedes are coming
- Wallenstein: death by murder
- The war’s terrible final phase
- Peace at last
- A new great power in south-east Europe: the Ottoman Empire
- The Emperor and his Court
- ‘Blood enmity’ with France: Charles V against Francis I
- The omnipotence of etiquette – ceremonial at the Viennese Court
- ‘The Turk’ at the gates of Vienna: Episode 1
- (Minor) hostilities along the Military Frontier
- Members only – the right of admission to Court
- Habsburg versus the Sun King
- ‘The Turk’ at the gates of Vienna: Episode 2
- A question of honour – receiving the diplomatic corps
- Honorary services at Court – it’s being there that counts!
- The battle for the Spanish inheritance
- On the 'Empress’s side' – women at Court
- Prince Eugene, the ‘noble knight’
- Imperial ‘downtime’: the Habsburg passion for hunting
- The emperor’s new clothes – Joseph II’s break with tradition
- Happy imperial holidays – summer residences around Vienna
- Marrying into Burgundy: Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy
- Marrying into Spain: Philip the Fair and Joan the Mad
- Marrying into Bohemia and Hungary with a double wedding in Vienna
- Daughters and sisters, get married!
- Schönbrunn before ‛Schönbrunn’ – the beginnings
- From castle in the air to château de plaisance – Schönbrunn and Fischer von Erlach
- The allure of the exotic – Habsburgs and the fashion for all things Chinese
- The Hradčany – the castle at Prague
- Pressburg – the capital of exile
- Graz – a bulwark of faith
- The Golden Fleece
- The Neugebäude – an idealist’s dream
- The Habsburgs’ Spanish dream
- The Escorial
- Rudolf II and the ‛Golden City’
- The new Rome: Fischer von Erlach and the 'Kaiserstil'
- The Karlskirche
- Wanted: gravediggers!
- Syphilis – an American disease?
- Dealing in drugs and herbs. A lucrative business
- Popular medical treatments – cupping, bleeding and purging
- Imbalances of the humours and the nervous system: the beginning of the campaigns against onanism
- Hosts, patron saints and books of miracles. White magic for Christians
- A robot in Prague and an elixir for Rudolf II
- In league with the devil
- Healing with herbs. Theriac and other remedies
- Washing, drawing, lancing – the requisite skills for a barber-surgeon in early modern times
- From the Hutterites to the Amish
- With the caroja to the auto-da-fé. The Spanish Inquisition
- Counting the days afresh
- Tertius gaudens – when two quarrel, a third rejoices
- Horn: town of insurgent Estates
- The Wiener Neustädter Blutgericht – the hanging tribunal at Wiener Neustadt
- Anti-Fuggerians in the mines
- ‘When Adam delved and Eve span …’
- Making war pay
- Life in the towns and cities
- Jesuits evangelize the world
- Tour de France and Giro d’Italia: popular tours even before the days of the racing bike
- Peasants on border patrol
- Croatian colonists for a devastated (Burgen)land
- The ‘legs’ of the community: Of pedlars and the imperial Taxis Post
- Monarch of all he surveys. The patriarchal household
- Living (like) in a commune?
- Childbearing and childrearing. Women in the household
- Like father, like son …
- The Church has its say. New standards of morality for the household-family
- The natural history collections
- Ostarrîchi: Austria under the Babenbergs
- The Habsburgs’ origins as a Swiss noble family
- Rudolf I of Habsburg: From ‘poor count’ to King of the Romans
- King Ottokar’s Fortune and End
- The Habsburgs take over Austria
- A king and his murderer
- Forgery à la Habsburg: the Privilegium maius
- If I were King ... – Duke Rudolf IV ‘the Founder’
- Fraternal strife and territorial partitioning
- Anything holy will fetch a good price – The medieval trade in religious relics
- Good business under the protection of saints – Markets in monasteries and cemeteries
- Monastery business matters – Monasteries and trade in the Middle Ages
- Off to the ‘holy places’ – Pilgrims and pilgrimages in the Middle Ages
- ‘The end of the world is nigh’ – The people of Europe beset by natural disasters
- ‘Mortalitas magna’ – the ‘Great Death’ – the plague epidemic of 1348-9
- Large areas of land completely deserted – Demographic trends and agricultural production
- Lord of the manor has vacancies for peasants, with possible tenure for life – The origin of the peasant class
- Of maids and day labourers, craftsmen and the ‘unhoused’ – Social groups in the countryside
- Peasants versus the lords of the manor – Rural revolts
- ‘High society’ – How having the rights of a burgher went hand in hand with social status
- On the fringes of town – beggars, prostitutes, hangmen
- Craftsmen are men – and women? Work for women and men in the world of urban crafts and trades
- Tuesday and Saturday are market days – crafts, markets and food supplies in medieval Vienna
- Persecution of the Jews in the Middle Ages – With social and economic motives and religious and ideological legitimation
- Ancient connections: Swiss monasteries as Habsburg loci of remembrance
- The Holy Roman Empire and the divine order of the world
- Schloss Eckartsau: Emperor Karl on his way into exile
- What do the Emperor’s apartments look like?
- The emperor’s furniture – the Hofmobiliendepot
- Signs of imperial majesty: the Crown of Rudolf
- A cathedral without a bishop: St Stephen’s in Vienna
- Almost a crown: The Austrian archducal coronet
- Pious religious zeal as a sovereign virtue
- The quest for ‘blue blood’ – the Habsburgs’ fictitious ancestors
- AEIOU
- The House of Austria – the Habsburgs and the Empire
- The double-headed eagle: the omnipresent emblem of the Habsburgs
- The struggle for peoples’ souls – the Habsburgs and the Counter-Reformation
- Magna Mater Austriae – the veneration of the Virgin as the Habsburg state cult
- Marks of presence: ecclesiastical endowments of the Habsburgs in Vienna
- Mauerbach and Gaming: the rise and fall of two Habsburg monastic foundations
- Under the sign of the Cross
- The Habsburg Court monastery – St Augustine’s
- New spirit in old buildings: religious houses in the Baroque era
- The question of utility: The ‘Klostersturm’ under Joseph II
- The Erbhuldigung – The act of Hereditary Homage
- The Corpus Christi procession – ‘God’s Court Ball’
- The beginnings – the medieval Hofburg
- The spiritual centre: the Hofburg Chapel
- In humility: the foot-washing ceremony
- Wiener Neustadt – the ‘forever loyal’ city
- The Habsburg heaven: patron saints of lands and dynasty
- Innsbruck – Residence with Alpine panorama
- For God, Emperor and Fatherland
- The textualization of the world
- If only I could read
- Places of learning: schools
- A Viennese institution: the Collegium civium
- Book production in the Middle Ages
- What did people read in the Middle Ages? Courtly and middle-class reading matter
- The invention of the printing press
- The secularization of education
- I want more! The revolution in reading in the eighteenth century
- Pirate editions commissioned by the state
- A university for Vienna
- Teachers and students at Vienna University
- ‘Bursen’ and ‘Koderien’ – the student hostels of the Middle Ages
- Septem artes liberales: What was studied in the Middle Ages?
- Winds of change – humanism arrives at Vienna University
- More state influence: Gerard van Swieten’s reform of the university
- Revolution! Academic freedom for the university and women in the lecture halls
- A travelling orchestra for Maximilian I
- An official post at last! The secularization of the Hofmusikkapelle
- A difficult legacy? The Hofmusikkapelle on its journey to the present day
- Courtly and popular pleasures
- Viennese masquerades
- Historicism – the architectural style of the Ringstrasse
- The glory that was Rome – Franz Joseph’s dream of an Imperial Forum
- The emperor’s architects
- The palaces of art and science
- It’s a record! 15,527 visitors on one day at the Kunsthistorisches Museum
- Buried alive? The new Burgtheater on Vienna’s Ringstrasse
- The ‘sunken chest’: The building of the Vienna Court Opera on the Ring
- A new venue: the Redoute Rooms
- The bears are out! Bloodthirsty pleasures at the Hetz amphitheatre
- The Biedermeier mania for dancing
- The Viennese coffee house
- The Viennese waltz
- The Strauss dynasty – a family business
- Roll up, roll up! Entertainments in the Prater
- Vienna’s new art-loving bourgeoisie
- Censored!
- Singing a chorus for freedom in the police state
- The home of opera: The Kärntnertortheater
- Musical life in the new opera house on the Ring
- Serious and dangerous entertainments
- Weh dem, der lügt! Censorship in the theatre
- A social hotspot: the Burgtheater
- 'Our revels now are ended': the old Burgtheater moves to its new premises on the Ring
- The theatre-makers
- Maria Theresa, empress and interior designer
- Trying out comfort and cosiness for a change: Biedermeier at Court
- ‘Dispensing with all unnecessary pomp’
- … And what about middle-class households?
- A ‘Turkish Salon’ in the Vienna Hofburg
- Leopoldine: Sunday’s child
- 1816 – A fateful year for Leopoldine
- An enquiry from Rio de Janeiro
- An expedition to the tropics
- A Portuguese fairy-tale prince?
- Family life in Rio de Janeiro
- The English governess: Maria Graham
- January 9, 1822: Fico – I am staying
- 2nd September 1822 – Brazil becomes an independent empire
- A masterpiece of diplomacy
- Leopoldina – a Brazilian patriot
- Mission accomplished...
- Emperor Franz II/I and Napoleon
- Marie Louise – a childhood spent in the shadows of world politics
- Napoleon at Schönbrunn Palace
- Marie Louise and the Duke of Reichstadt
- Habsburg occupation of the royal throne
- The posthumous prince and his guardian
- A weak yet tenacious emperor: Frederick III
- Fraternal strife: Emperor Frederick III versus Duke Albrecht VI
- The Hungarians are coming: Emperor Frederick III versus Matthias Corvinus
- The reuniting of the Habsburg lands: Maximilian I
- Frederick of the Empty Pockets and the Tyroleans
- Napoleon seeks a wife
- Napoleon and Marie Louise: Courtship and wedding in Vienna
- The handover of the bride
- First meeting and wedding in Paris
- The Court Linen Room
- The Feast of St Nicholas
- Christmas down the ages
- O Christmas Tree – the Habsburgs and the Christmas tree
- Christmas in the imperial family
- A year at Court – the Court Calendar
- The 'first tier' of society - social interaction in the aristocracy
- An all too closed society
- Following in Sisi’s footsteps: the imperial park at Bad Ischl
- The emperor on his summer retreat: the imperial villa at Ischl
- The problem of the succession
- Franz Joseph and Franz Ferdinand – a tense relationship
- Karl – the unexpected crown prince
- Charles V and the vision of universal monarchy
- A very special Christmas concert: Joseph Haydn and the Russian grand duchess
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