BEETHOVEN'S HOUSE (PASQUALATIHAUS)
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The house houses a small museum featuring Willibrord Mähler's famous portrait of Beethoven.
The Pasqualati house is one of the many Viennese houses where Beethoven lived. Between 1804 and 1815, he stayed several times in the house of one of his patrons. Although he was born in Bonn, the composer spent 35 years in about 40 different addresses in the Austrian capital. Beethoven came to Vienna for the first time at the age of 17 to study with Mozart, but he was soon called to the bedside of his dying mother. He returned five years later, in 1792, to study with Joseph Haydn and never left the city again. In this beautiful 18th century house, the composer worked on his opera Fidelio and the Fourth , Fifth , Seventh and EighthSymphonies. It was also here that he composed his famous Letter to Elise. This apartment, located on thefourth floor, offers a breathtaking view of the Ring and the University of Vienna and is named after its owner at the time, the patron Johann Baptist Freiherr von Pasqualati. This small museum displays a few objects that belonged to the musician, as well as various documents illustrating his life. The famous portrait of Beethoven by Willibrord Mähler, painted in 1804, is particularly noteworthy. It is worth remembering that the year 2020 marked the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth For the occasion, another residence of the musician, on Probusgasse, has been transformed into the Beethoven Museum. A museum and a house for a musician of genius, that's not too much!
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