a bar, restaurant and chamber-concert venue
(see below)
frequented a generation later by Brahms
(who had his own barrel of Tokaj)
on this day. also a Wednesday, in 1828,
Franz Schubert gave his only public concert,
which included his second piano trio.
The entrance charge of 2 florins per person
made him rich for the last nine months of his life.
Another of my Most Admired Men sold only one painting.
None of these three heterosexual beauty-makers had a wife.
- Parterre and 1st floor of a residential building.
- Address: Tuchlauben No. 12.
- Also: Rother Igel.
- 1822 The Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde rents premises within a building on the Tuchlauben in Vienna, “Zum roten Igel” (same complex).
- 1829-1870 The Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde buys “Zum roten Igel”, the building it had formerly rented, planning to replace this with a new building bringing the diverse activities of the Musikverein together under one roof.
- Also visited frequently by Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), and Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Brahms refused to eat anywhere else.
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