Emperor joseph ii death mask

  • King Ferdinand IV and Emperor Joseph I died of this illness, as did both wives of Emperor Joseph II and several of Empress Maria.
  • The Viennese seek to look death straight in the eye – an attitude on display at a morbidly humorous museum devoted to death and burial.
  • The Viennese seek to look death straight in the eye -- an attitude on display at a morbidly humourous museum devoted to death and burial.

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    Following Imperial Royal Kapellmeister Mozart’s death on December 5, , things moved quickly. Around two o’clock the very next afternoon (on account of the noxious state of the remains), Mozart’s corpse was taken over to Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral where it received a quick blessing. Then gravediggers coached it down the road to the St. Marxer Friedhof where, in accordance with a city ordinance by Emperor Joseph II, it was uncoffined and placed in a mass grave. Proceedings appear to have been concluded in just ninety minutes, sunset taking place just after four o’clock. No mourners, not even the widow, witnessed the burial. Even today, Mozart’s exact whereabouts are a mystery. Although the composer’s friend Franz-Joseph Haydn, later said that posterity “would not see such talent again in a hundred years,” it is surprising that for many of those years nobody much cared where Mozart was buried.

    Two miles away and thirty-six years later saw an entirely different state of affairs:

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    Beethoven’s death maskering and a short history of face masks

    Abstract

    The year was also about the th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. On this occasion, his rarely discussed life and death masks should be presented. In addition, a short historical outline is given of the history of face masks in general, which now accompanies us in everyday life in the form eller gestalt of the face–nose maskering due to the COVID pandemic.

    Keywords: Beethoven, Vienna, Death mask, Life mask, History of medicine

    Abstract

    Im Jahr jährte sich der Geburtstag Beethovens zum  Mal. Aus diesem Anlass werden seine selten besprochenen Lebend- und Totenmasken näher beleuchtet. Zudem wird ein kurzer geschichtlicher Abriss über die Geschichte der Gesichtsmasken i. Allg. gegeben, die uns in Form der Mund-Nasen-Maske aufgrund der COVIDPandemie derzeit im Alltag begleitet.

    Schlüsselwörter: Beethoven, Wien, Totenmaske, Lebendmaske, Geschichte der Medizin

    Face masks in general

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    Just in time for Halloween on Friday and a weekend devoted to the dead, Vienna's unashamedly morbid Funeral Museum is now closer to the action: the Austrian capital's huge Central Cemetery. In a city with a singular attitude to kicking the bucket -- "Death himself must be a Viennese," one local song says -- the "Bestattungsmuseum" was the world's first of its kind when it first opened in This month it reopened, updated for the digital age, in new premises at the Zentralfriedhof, the second-largest cemetery in Europe by surface area. But with some three million "inhabitants", the graveyard is the biggest by number of interred. The stepped entrance to the subterranean museum takes people literally down into the underworld of undertakers from centuries past, "into the realm of the dead," museum director Helga Bock told AFP. Some items are on display, many quite opulent, showing how for the Viennese having a good send-off -- or as they