Domestic music-making instead of festive operas – the end of the Baroque opera

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena: Court *fête* in the Winter Riding School of the Vienna Hofburg held on 7 January 1744 on the occasion of the marriage of Archduchess Maria Anna and Duke Carl Alexander of Lorraine on 12 January 1744, pen-and-ink/sepia

 

Paar after J. Fux: Court concert at Laxenburg during the reign of Emperor Leopold I, 19th century, xylograph

 

Schönbrunn Palace Theatre, view of the stage, photograph

 

Joseph Hauzinger: Joseph II with his sisters Maria Anna and Maria Elisabeth at the spinet, 1778, oil on canvas