Free audio walk in Vienna
Landlords and rent arrears
- 13 stops
- Free
Starts at Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 1
About this walk
Europe's most famous composers lived here in rented rooms, and hardly any of them owned a house.
The stops
Walk them in order; each story plays when you reach its pin.
- 1Stop 1
Where the Hunger Lived
This boarding school was home to a choirboy who was always hungry and who later wrote six hundred songs.
- 2Stop 2
The priciest years
The only home Mozart lived in that Vienna still has, and the most expensive one he ever rented.
Read the story - 3Stop 3
Kicked Down the Stairs
This is where Mozart was literally booted out the door in 1781, and he never quite got over it.
Read the story - 4Stop 4
The Department Store on the Death Site
Behind the glass front of this department store stood the house where Mozart died at the age of thirty-five.
Read the story - 5Stop 5
Selling the tickets himself
On this square Mozart rented the hall himself, sold the tickets himself and played the lead himself.
Read the story - 6Stop 6
The theatre that isn't there anymore
On this corner stood the theatre where the Ninth Symphony rang out for a man who couldn't hear a note of it.
Read the story - 7Stop 7
The prince who actually paid
Behind this facade the Eroica rang out for the first time, and you can still visit the hall.
Read the story - 8Stop 8
The publisher who cashed in
On this expensive shopping street sat the publisher who made money off Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
Read the story - 9Stop 9
The attic and the court poet
Four floors up, under the roof, slept the seventeen-year-old Haydn, while the court poet lived below.
Read the story - 10Stop 10
The Italians at Court
The church with the blunted tower is Vienna's Italian church, and it was the Italians who set the tone for the music here.
Read the story - 11Stop 11
The Lord of the Village
On the estate of the family who lived in this palace, a wheelwright's son was born.
Read the story - 12Stop 12
The rooms he kept coming back to
Beethoven left this place so often, and returned so often, that his landlord simply let the rooms stand empty.
Read the story - 13Stop 13
Tens of thousands in the streets
Beethoven died here, and three days later half the city followed his coffin.
Read the story
Ready when you are
Walk Landlords and rent arrears with ROODS.
13 stops through Vienna. Open ROODS in your browser, walk to the first pin and the story plays.
- Stories on a map, with narrated audio
- Walk at your own pace, stop where you like
- Runs in your browser. An app is optional.
