Altausee
Styria. Commune, health resort.

Sights:

• Setting-off point of the „Salzkammergut-Panoramastraße" to the Lose (1838m)
• Late Gothic church with altar-panel (1860) by Leopold Kupelwieser (1796-1862)
• Late Gothic sacrament hut (1520)
• In the environs: waterfall of Trattenbach

From 1854 to 1914 summer resort of emperor Franz Joseph I and the composers Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauß son (1825-1899), Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), Emmerich Kálmán (1882-1953), Franz Lehár (1870-1948).

Sights:

• Brahms bust in front of the former Brahms villa (Mastaliergasse), from May 7th 1997 on in the garden of the municipal museum
• Lehár villa
• Haenel-Pancera museum
• "Ischl operetta weeks" from July to September
• Imperial villa with landscape garden
• Ischler Salzberg (680m) with show salt-mine near Perneck

Sights:

• Brahms commemorative plaque on the former villa Miller-Aichholz (today elementary school) in the Lindenstraße
• Parish church (Gothic basilica from the first half of the 14th century, from 1713 to 1718 made baroque)
• Capuchin cloister (built 1636-1639)
• Protestant church (1871-1872, neo-Gothic furniture)
• Town hall (16th-18th century)
• Museum in the former Kammerhofgebäude (Brahms room, cribs and folk culture, archives and Hebbel estate)
• Lake castle Ort (documented in 1138, Gothic in the core, after 1634 reconstruction with chapel, 17th century) linked by a bridge with the land castle Ort
• Folklore: Epiphany trip on the lake, lake festival in July

 Mürzzuschlag
Styria. City (1924), main town of the Mürz valley, southwest of the Semmering. Documented in 1227, since the Middle Ages center of the iron industry.

Sights:

 
• Parish church (1767-1774), six-storied Gothic steeple, glass painting window from 1890, huge rococo high altar and rood altar (1682) with foliage ornaments
• Protestant Savior church (1900)
• Former Franciscan church (1648-1657, secularized in 1798, today art house)
• Rosegger fountain (1933)
• Brahms house, since 1991 Brahms museum with commemorative plaque on the facade

Brahms-Museum
Wiener Straße 4
A - 8680 Mürzzuschlag
Phone: 43-3852-3434
Pörtschach am Wörther See
Carinthia. Commune, Alps lakeside resort on the north bank of the Wörthersee. Wharf.

Sights:

• Parish church (built 1787-1794, enlarged 1904-1906)
• Protestant church (1956-1959)
• Renaissance castle Leonstein (core from the 16th century, renovated 19th/20th century), today hotel
• Ruins of Leonstein castle (documented in 1166)
• Brahms bust (1907) in Leonstain castle, accessible only for hotel guests
• Brahms room in Leonstain castle with Biedermeier furniture. Brahms is supposed to have lived here in 1877 and 1878. Accessible only for hotel guests.

Brahms-Klaviermuseum
Hauptstraße 205
A - 9210 Pörtschach
Phone: 43-4272-4072
Vienna
Capital of the Federal Republic of Austria. (Only objects referring to Johannes Brahms are mentioned.)

Igel, Zum roten (Wien 1., Tuchlauben 12, Brandstätte 8-10, Wildpretmarkt 1)
Building leading from the Neue Kienmarkt (Kammerhof respectively Wildpretmarkt) to the Tuchlauben. In 1829, the building was sold to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreinde, which rearranged it for their purposes in 1829/30. On September 6th 1830, inauguration of the building with the performance of Mozart's Tedeum (K 141). On November 4th 1831, inauguration of the concert hall with the Tedeum by Johann Nepomuk Hummel. In 1838, the former wine tavern of the house was turned into a fashionable restaurant.

Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of music lovers) (Wien 1., Karlsplatz 6 / Bösendorferstraße 12)
The foundation of the "Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde des österreichischen Kaiserstaates" (Society of music lovers of the Austrian empire) was initiated in 1812 by Joseph Ferdinand von Sonnleithner, the secretary of the court theaters. The main purpose of the society was besides the performance of concerts the establishment of a conservatory and a large musical collection.
Conservatory: in 1817 the society opened a singing school and in 1821 schools for instrumental music which were centralized in 1822 under the name of "conservatory". In 1909 the conservatory was nationalized under the name of "K. K. Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst" (Imperial and Royal academy for music and interpretative art) and moved to the new building of the Wiener Konzerthaus. Since its foundation the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde worked as private society. The "performing members", the so-called "dilettants", who were no professional musicians, but their skill guaranteed the high quality of the concerts, appeared in their concerts initially. Since 1851 the society invites only professional musicians to their concerts.
The original seat of the society was in the building „Zum roten Igel" (Tuchlauben 12, Brandstätte 8-10, Wildpretmarkt 1). 1829/30 the society acquired and demolished the till then rented building and built a new one which housed the archives, the conservatory and the first concert hall of Vienna.br> The Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde moved into the Musikverein building of today in the year 1870. It was raised in two and a half years and inaugurated by emperor Franz Joseph I on January 5th 1870. At that time it housed the concert activities, the archives and the conservatory. Since then innumerable great musicians appeared in the two concert halls of the house, the Goldene Saal (golden hall) belongs to the most famous and best concert halls of the world; the New Year concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra are also performed here.

Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien Archiv - Bibliothek - Sammlungen
Bösendorferstraße 12
A - 1010 Wien
Phone: 43-1-505868144

 The archives and the library of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien (founded in 1812) are private collections opened to public for the purposes of study. Occasionally the associated museum presents exhibitions.

 Preserved are in particular: music autographs, letters, music prints, music manuscripts, music literature, music journals and other musical periodics, publishing house, antiquarian and auction catalogs, librettos, programs, handwritten biographies of musicians, documents, portraits, portrayals referring to music, musical instruments, medals, busts.

Hours of opening:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
closed: from July to September, from December 24th to January 6th, Easter week

Kunsthistorisches Museum (art-history museum)
Burgring 5
A - 1010 WIEN
Phone: 43-1-52177-471
Art collections in the Neue Burg
Collections of old musical instruments

 4th district, Karlsplatz
Marble monument by Rudolf Weyr for Johannes Brahms, unveiled on May 7th 1908 on the occasion of his 75th birthday. The location of the monument changed in the course of the rearrangement of the Karlsplatz (construction of the subway).

4th district, Brahmsplatz
The place was built about 1898, before it was a large inner court garden. In 1898 it was named after Brahms.

4th district, Brahmsplatz quarter
Made of the buldings on both sides of the Tilgnerstraße (1-5, 2-6; at the corner of Favoritenstraße 20 and 22) and around the Brahmsplatz (1-8).

Brahms-Gedenkraum (im Haydn-Wohnhaus) (Brahms memorial room at the Haydn house) 
Haydngasse 19
A - 1060 WIEN
Phone: 43-1-5961307
Haydngasse 19 A - 1060 Wien

Apartments in Vienna:
In 1862, Brahms moved from Hamburg to Vienna.

1862:	Wien 2., Novaragasse 39
1862-1863:	Wien 2., Novaragasse 55 /. Czerningasse 7
1863-1865:	Wien 1., Singerstr. 7, Stiege 7, 4. Stock  (upper floor of the Deutschordenhaus)

After sojourns in Baden and in Switzerland, he lived in Vienna again from 1867 on.

1867:	Wien 1., Postgasse 6
1869-1871:	Wien 3., Linke Bahngasse 1-1a, Ungargasse 2 ("Zur Goldspinnerin")
1872:	Wien 4. Bezirk, Karlsgasse 4.

 In 1897 Brahms died in his last apartment.
(Commemorative plaque on the facade of the Technischen Universität - university of technology - in the Karlsgasse, unveiled in 1922; in 1905, the house and three adjoining buildings were pulled down to build an annex of the college of technology.)

 The name of Brahms is also linked with the Arenbergschlößl (Wien 3., Landstraßer Hauptstraße 96), he spent here many hours with the Fellinger family from 1893 to 1897. (The memory book of Marie Fellinger with many amateur photographs is at the Landstraßer Bezirksmuseum - museum of the 3rd district.) Numerous works were performed here for the first time. In 1958, the Arenberg palace was pulled down to build a new house. A commemorative plaque with a bronze relief by Franz Siegel points this event out.

 Zentralfriedhof (central cemetary)
Ehrengrab Gruppe 32A, No. 26
Tombstone (1903) by Ilse Conrat (1880-?, sculptress)