[with video] Official review: "Johann Strauss Apartment" (Vienna)
LOCATION. Nearest station: Nestroyplatz. Exit the station, walk northeast, and you'll see the apartment building to your right.
WHO'S WHO. The apartment belongs to Johann Strauss II, and not the long list of Strauss' you've heard elsewhere.
As you enter the first room (the one with his piano), to your left you’ll have to activate an ultra insensitive sensor hidden under the title-page display. Wave at it again and again until Blue Danube starts to play.
And then with the mood being set, you’ll realize what it’s like to be the one-song man he’s become in pop culture. With the first room arranged to be more of a “Museum of Blue Danube”.
Luckily, this pop conception is to be expanded in the next room, with his novel attempts (e.g. operettas) and juicy re-re-marriages exposed.
HERITAGE. Strauss lived here from 1863 to 1870. The Blue Danube was composed in 1867.
MOREOVER. The apartment is not to be confused with the Strauss Museum, an attraction that instead explicates the entire Strauss musical family.
Time is asset: save it for better with 25-min museum tours. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.
Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger
WHO'S WHO. The apartment belongs to Johann Strauss II, and not the long list of Strauss' you've heard elsewhere.
"Johann Strauss Apartment" (Vienna)
As you enter the first room (the one with his piano), to your left you’ll have to activate an ultra insensitive sensor hidden under the title-page display. Wave at it again and again until Blue Danube starts to play.
And then with the mood being set, you’ll realize what it’s like to be the one-song man he’s become in pop culture. With the first room arranged to be more of a “Museum of Blue Danube”.
Luckily, this pop conception is to be expanded in the next room, with his novel attempts (e.g. operettas) and juicy re-re-marriages exposed.
Clip: "Johann Strauss Apartment" (Vienna)
HERITAGE. Strauss lived here from 1863 to 1870. The Blue Danube was composed in 1867.
MOREOVER. The apartment is not to be confused with the Strauss Museum, an attraction that instead explicates the entire Strauss musical family.
Time is asset: save it for better with 25-min museum tours. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.
Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger
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