You must turn on the browser location services to get the route from your current location to the sign, and the distance (as the crow flies) from your current location to the sign.
After activating location services, refresh the page.
On the sign:
In dem bis 1874 an dieser Stelle gestandenen Arkadenhaus lebte und starb JOSEF SONNLEITHNER 1766 1835 der 1812 die Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien gegründet hal . GEWIDMET VON DER STERREICHISCHEN DEAMTENVERSICHERUNG
The place where until 1874 stood the house where the lyricist for the operas Joseph Sonnleithner, a friend of Joseph Hayden, lived. The best known opera that used the text he wrote is "Fidelio" the only opera written by Beethoven. Sonnleithner was also one of the founders of the Society of Music Friends in Vienna (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien), an association that exists to this day, designed to promote music, and among its members were some of the best known musicians of the 19th and 20th centuries. . A well-known anecdote about the association is that in 1818, 4 years after its founding, it refused to accept into its ranks the well-known composer Franz Schubert.
Translation of the text on the sign: Lived and died in the arcaded house that stood on this spot until 1874 JOSEF SONNLEITHNER 1766 1835 who founded the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna in 1812. DEDICATED BY THE AUSTRIAN DEAMTEN INSURANCE
Possible Worlds Ltd. 
© 2019-2024
