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Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof (Trinity Cemetery)

In May 1847, while on a concert tour, the catastrophic news of his sister Fanny’s death reached him. Mendelssohn was stunned, interrupted all his activities, and escaped on a solitary vacation trip to Switzerland. When he returned, he suffered his first stroke in Leipzig in early October. After further strokes, he lost consciousness and died at his home on November 4, 1847, at the age of 38. After a funeral service in Leipzig, his body was transferred to Berlin on a special train and buried in the Trinity Cemetery in the Mendelssohn family grave next to his beloved sister.
TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn Gravesite:

Since 2013, there has been an exhibition on the history of the Mendelssohn family in a former chapel in the Trinity Cemetery.

Monumental cemetery Certosa Bologna

In 1822, the famous soprano married Gioachino Rossini in Bologna . They kept houses in the city (a plaque on the Strada Maggiore still commemorates it) and in the countryside.

With the assumption of responsibility for the Théâtre lyrique, the two had moved to Paris. After the end of her singing career, Colbran became erratic and addicted to gambling. In 1829 Rossini brought his wife back to Bologna, where she would henceforth live with Rossini’s parents. In letters Rossini’s father complained several times to his son, who lived in Paris, about Isabelle’s diva-like behavior, but Gioachino had already become estranged from her and separated from Colbran, who was 7 years older. He saw her only very sporadically. In 1845 she died and found her resting place in Bologna in the monumental Certosa cemetery, where there are also the graves of the most famous castrato Farinelli (Carlo Broschi) and Ottorino Respighi. The cemetery is worth seeing and, similar to the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna, it is filled with spectacular tombs. Rossini’s tomb however is not in Bologna, he was buried first in Paris, then in Florence.
TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Isabella Colbran:

Certosa cemetery:

https://www.bolognaservizicimiteriali.it/contatti.html

Montale Cemetery Modena

Luciano Pavarotti was born in Modena in 1935 into a family of modest means. After his education, he worked as a teacher for several years. He inherited his musical talent from his father, who sang as a tenor in his spare time.

After studying in Mantua, he won a competition and was able to make his debut as Rodolfo.

He remained faithful to Modena throughout his life, but led an artist’s life with several locations. After reducing his appearances in later years, he chose Modena again as his center of life, together with his second wife, where he regularly staged the event Pavarotti & friends, among others.
He died of kidney failure on September 6, 2007, at the age of 71. Pavarotti had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2006.

Pavarotti was buried here in the family tomb. Pavarotti wanted to do one more farewell tour of the world, but was unable to finish it due to his illness. He died after a hospital stay at his home in Modena. 100,000 people said goodbye to Pavarotti, who was laid out in an open coffin in the cathedral.
TO THE PORTRAIT OF LUCIANO PAVAROTTI

Langhirano near Parma

Mattaletto Cemetery in Langhirano near Parma. Renata Tebaldi, a native of Pesaro, was one of the great sopranos of the postwar period. Her career began meteorically with the glorious opening concert of La Scala after the war under Toscanini, who mentioned the defining term of the “angelic voice” there.

She was hyped up as a rival to Callas, competing with her for the position of prima donna at La Scala and the Met. While Callas excelled with drama and technique, Tebaldi was the lyrical counterpart.

She died at her home in San Marino in 2004 at the age of 82. Since 2014 there has been a museum dedicated to her life and work near Busseto

Cimitero Storico della Villetta Parma

Next to Liszt, Paganini was the most famous instrument virtuoso and “pop star” of the 19th century. He revolutionized violin playing with new fingerings and fascinated the public with his appearance.

However, the demonic appearance was partly due to his many illnesses such as bone necrosis, which attacked the lower jaw and led to tooth loss. Furthermore, he suffered from syphilitic ailments that were fought with mercury, which in turn attacked the body again. Because he lacked teeth, he never smiled, he fueled this demonic impression with invented stories, so that many people thought he was in league with the devil, which was his undoing at his death, as the bishop refused him the last rites, also because due to speech difficulties he could not speak the confession.

He died in 1840 in Nice, where he hoped for relief from his pain in the mild climate of southern France. His embalmed body was not buried until 1876 in Parma after a long odyssey.
In addition to a great deal of wealth, Paganini left, among other things, seven Stradivaris and four Guarnieris. Four of these Stradivarius violins were later acquired together and are still loaned out today under the name “Paganini Quartet” and played by renowned string quartet ensembles.

His favorite instrument was a guarnieri, which he called “il cannone” because of its clear, powerful sound. Paganini bequeathed it to his hometown Genoa and it is exhibited in the Palazzo Tursi (Musei di Strada Nuova – Genoa) and played occasionally.

Gravesite in Brissago

Leoncavallo subsequently moved away and died a few years later in Tuscany, where he was also buried. According to the Brissaghesi, Leoncavallo had expressed the wish to be buried in Brissago. 70 years later, people in Brissago remembered this and wanted to transfer the body to Brissago. However, they could not find the ominous letter that was supposed to prove this verbal statement. Finally, Leoncavallo’s last remaining relative agreed and the remains were transferred to his present burial place, the beautiful church of Madonna di Ponte in Brissago. His tomb now lies in the beautiful portico overlooking Lake Maggiore.

Leoncavallos Tomb:

Madonna di Ponte:

Westminster Abbey

It was Handel’s wish to find his final resting place in Westminster Abbey. Roubiliac created the statue for the tomb. This portrait is generally acknowledged to be very faithful to the original, partly because Roubiliac had already portrayed Handel once for a statue, and partly because he modeled the face after the death mask. This statement was confirmed by contemporaries who knew Handel.

Handel’s tomb:

https://www.westminster-abbey.org/

Tomb in the Casa di riposo

In the last years of his life, Verdi initiated a generous deed. He bought a large area at the Piazza Buonarroti and had a rest home built there for impoverished, old musicians. He deliberately did not want to build a hospital-like nursing home, but a home for guests who were to live in 2-person rooms instead of dormitories. Since then, more than a thousand people have enjoyed this tastefully furnished boarding house, which, at Verdi’s request, was opened only after his death. He supervised the work meticulously and spoke “of his most beautiful work” (‘mia piu bella opera’). The garden with the crypt of Verdi and his wife Giuseppina is accessible by appointment at the reception, more (concert hall, Turkish room and many interesting memorabilia) depends on the events of the day.
TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF GIUSEPPE VERDI

Casaverdi:

Gravesite:

https://www.casaverdi.it/

Toscanini died in New York in 1957 at the age of 90. He was taken to Italy, where a ceremony was held at La Scala.

On this Carrara marble block you can see 3 Norns holding the threads of fate in their hands.

Finally, on the reverse side, one sees a naked man and a naked woman: they embrace each other in pain. Between them is the inscription in memory of the little Giorgio Toscanini , who died in June 1906 at the age of barely 5 years, the youngest son of Arturo Toscanini.

Vladimir Horowitz, the famous pianist, was the son-in-law of Arturo Toscanini and was buried with his wife Wanda in Arturo Toscanini’s family vault.

He died of a heart attack in 1989 at the age of 86.

Arigo Boito was a writer and musician. Among other things, he wrote libretti for Verdi (Simon Boccanegra revision, Otello, Falstaff) and wrote the famous opera “Mefistofele”.

Boito with Verdi:

Corelli was a famous but controversial tenor. His powerful voice resounded in the 50s and 60s. In the link below you can hear a slow aria by Corelli, in which he offers more drama than lyricism. Nevertheless, one cannot escape the pull of this voice (Kesting speaks of a “macho magnetism”). Somewhat disturbing is the lisp, which was a negative trademark of Corelli.

Ah si ben mio (Il Trovatore)

Ponchielli became immortal through his opera “La Gioconda” (the most famous piece from it is the “Dance of the Hours”). Later he taught at the Milan Conservatory, among his most famous students were Giacomo Puccini and Pietro Mascagni.

Novodevichy Cemetery Moscow

Prokofiev is buried here with his second wife (section 3, row 47). His first wife (a singer) was able to leave the labor camp after the political thaw after nine years and the country after another 15 years, where she was able to make a living from the royalties of Prokofiev’s music outside the Eastern Bloc. She even made a recording of “Peter and the Wolf” as a narrator.

Also buried in this cemetery are Nicolas Gogol, Sergei Eisenstein (for whose famous films Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible Prokofiev wrote music), Nikita Khrushchev and Boris Yeltsin, among others.

Prokofiev’s grave:

From 1874 Bayreuth and the Villa Wahnfried was the center of life for the Wagner family. It was built according to the wishes of Richard Wagner. After the death of Richard Wagner it remained the ancestral home of the Wagners.
TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF WAGNER
https://www.wagnermuseum.de/

Richard Wagner and Cosima Wagner are buried at Villa Wahnfried:

The funeral took place on 3 August, a requiem mass was held on 4 August. At this, Anton Bruckner played his own works and he fantasised about themes from Parsifal. Works by Liszt were not played, apparently Brucker did not know any of his pieces. After Liszt’s death, there was a lengthy tug-of-war over where he was to be buried. The mausoleum was badly damaged during the Second World War and was rebuilt true to the original.

Liszt’s Mausoleum:

The villa in Garmisch

In 1908 Strauss moved into the newly built house in rural Garmisch-Partenkirchen, financed with the proceeds of his “Salome“. The villa served first as a summer retreat and later as a residence, in whose study most of the works from “Elektra” onward were written.

Nazi Years

In the twenties he was on the road a lot (Dresden, Vienna, Salzburg and tours), and in the Nazi years he took over the office of Reichsmusikdirektor at the beginning. Strauss’s role in World War II was ambivalent. Strauss was not an anti-Semite, but he was opportunistic at best. When the American troops marched into Garmisch, Strauss received them in his garden, certificates in hand, and was thus able to protect his house from requisition “as the composer of the Rosenkavalier.”

The late years and death

After the Second World War, Strauss, who was in poor health and financially strapped, left Garmisch for Switzerland for fear of denazification, where he was supported by patrons and lived in hotels.
Finally, he returned to his beloved house and on September 8, 1849, the last great opera composer in the history of music died in his bed after a severe heart attack he had suffered a month earlier.
TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD STRAUSS
Richard Strauss’ abdication took place in Munich, his urn lies in the family grave in the Garmisch cemetery.
TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD STRAUSS
Richard Strauss’ tomb:

https://buergerservice.gapa.de/de/rathaus/rathaus/verwaltung/buergeramt—standesamt/friedhofsverwaltung

Carl Orff was granted a grave on the Holy Mountain in the Sorrowful Chapel of the monastery church at Andechs in 1982 at his personal request.

Carl Orff’s tomb:

Andech:

Max Reger was first buried in Jena and was later moved to Munich, where his widow had later moved. Organ pipes are engraved on his gravestone.

Here you will find a google map of Père Lachaise, Zoom-In to find the tombs.

Auber died in the turmoil of the Paris Commune; his grave is in Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Auber’s tomb:

In 1835 Bellini was honored with great sympathy at a state funeral in the Invalides Cathedral and laid to rest in the Père Lachaise. Giulia Grisi, who had sung in the triumphant “I Puritani” only 8 months earlier, sang the Lacrimosa to the tune of “Credeasi misera” from “I Puritani” and 350 choristers sang pieces by Bellini. He was buried in Section 11, where 14 years later and only a few meters away, Frédéric Chopin, who also died young, would be buried. In 1876 Bellini’s body was transferred to Catania, but the grave was kept.

Bellini’s tomb:

Bizets was buried in this famous cemetery at Division 68, No. 101. The tomb was designed by Charles Garnier, the architect of the Garnier Opera House in Paris. In 2006 the beautiful bust was stolen. It has since been recovered and is in the possession of the cemetery.

Georges Bizet’s tomb (historic Picture):

Debut in Paris

Maria Callas debuted in Paris when she had long since become a megastar.
The 1958 recital at the Garnier was an event of the first order, and in the hall sat a man who was to change her life: Aristotle Onassis. A relationship developed, but to her disappointment Onassis did not marry Callas but Jacky Kennedy. In 1965 Callas sang an opera for the last time, it was Norma in Paris, with which she ended her career.

Her Paris years

From then on she lived in Paris, although the projects of her last 10 years (film Medea, master classes in New York, tour with di Stefano) all took place outside Paris. Privately, she lived in seclusion on the Avenue Georges Mandel. Occasionally she is said to have been spotted with Onassis, who is said to have been unhappy about his marriage to Jackie Kennedy and died two years before Callas in a hospital in Paris, where she is said to have still visited him.

Her final years and death

Callas lived in this apartment for the last 9 years of her life. An insight is given by the interview that Lord Harewood had made for BBC in 1968. She lived there in seclusion with servants and the two poodles. She died of a heart attack alone in her apartment on September 16. A plaque on the building commemorates the famous resident and a middle street of Avenue Georges Mandel was named after her (Allée Maria Callas).
After burial in the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Agios Stephanos on Rue Georges-Bizet, the ashes were interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in eastern Paris. The urn was first stolen and recovered and the ashes were scattered over the coast of the Aegean Sea in accordance with her wishes.
TO THE PORTRAIT OF MARIA CALLAS

Cherubini spent the first part of his composing career in Italy and moved to pre-revolutionary Paris in 1787 at the age of 27. He achieved respectable success there in 1791 with Lodoiska, a revolutionary rescue opera. Soon after, he composed his most important work, Medea. After the revolution, he and his music fell out of favor and left Paris. Later he returned and lived as a highly respected conservatory director in Paris, where he died in 1842.

On Chopin’s grave Euterpe, the muse of music, is watching and crying in view of a broken instrument. The monument is by Auguste Schlésinger, husband of George Sand’s daughter Solange.

His heart was taken from his body before burial, which his sister smuggled to Poland.

Maybe the greatest Primadonna of the 19th century

Patti was born in Madrid in 1843. Her mother and father were Italian opera singers who toured and stayed in the Spanish capital for long periods of time. Adelina is a child prodigy. She sings opera arias heard from her mother even before she can speak.

Her father Salvatore Patti, gets an offer from a friend to sing in New York and is immediately asked to take over the job as manager of the opera company. The family moves to the United States, the business develops slowly and the family suffers from financial problems.
At the age of 10, she sets out on a tour of the United States with the piano virtuoso Strakosch, her aunt’s husband. The guest performances become a great success and solve the family’s financial problems.

At the age of 13, the child prodigy takes leave of the stage and seriously prepares for her stage career. At the age of 16 the time has come and she starts her career as an opera singer. Adelina Patti does not dwell on supporting roles. Already at a young age her self-confidence is great and she chooses for her opera debut in New York, the role of Lucia di Lammermoor. Her performance hits like a bomb. The mad scene becomes a triumph and the audience is at her feet.

Patti’s reputation spreads to London. In the new season she arrives in the English capital with Strakosch, her aunt’s husband. At the first performance, the American is coolly greeted by the audience. Patti is all of 1.50 meters tall and the audience is surprised to see a little girl singing the Amina of “Sonnambula”. Already after the first aria the cheering knows no bounds.

For 30 years the world has been at Adelina Patti’s feet. She tours tirelessly through the opera houses and concert halls of Europe and America and is celebrated everywhere. The great composers such as Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Rossini and Gounod praise the uniqueness of her voice and musicality. Berlioz is even said to have fallen unhappily in love with her.

After a divorce, she was made fun of by the gossip press of Europe and she decided to retire to Wales with her husband and she bought the castle in Craig y nos. She died in 1919 in Craig y nos and was buried according to her wishes in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

Rossini’s body was buried alongside Chopin and Bellini at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris after a solemn funeral. In May 1887, his remains were transferred to Florence.

His honorary grave is located in Division 4.

Berlioz’s simpler tomb was later replaced by a more monumental version.

Samson et Dalila is the only one of Saint-Saëns’ 16 operas that has made it into the repertoire. Saint-Saëns was an immensely educated and accomplished musician, early on he was recognized as a child prodigy of Mozart’s kindness, his technical and compositional resources gave him the opportunity to give all his operas a style of his own. This strategy did not pay off, as almost all of his operas have been forgotten.

Critcised as a “Wagnérien”

His career, however, was a rough one. He was reviled in France as a “Wagnérien,” which came close to an artistic death sentence in the troubled period of Franco-German strife.

Saint-Saëns, now 42, married a 19-year-old industrialist’s daughter. The marriage was unhappy. Quarrels between the young wife and his mother and the early death of their two children wore the composer down. He left the young wife a note saying “I am gone” and moved back in with his mother.

Saint-Saëns traveled extensively throughout his life. His father died of pulmonary tuberculosis and his doctors advised him to avoid the unfavorable climate of Paris during the winter months. The destination of many of his winter journeys was Algiers, where he also wrote part of his Samson during his first winter.

His most famous work is probably the Carnival of the Animals.

In 1880 Offenbach was buried here, among others Hortense Schneider (his famous “Belle-Hélène) was present at the funeral.

Debussy’s grave is in this cemetery of celebrities near the Trocadéro, with a beautiful view of the Seine. Debussy died in 1918 of colon cancer, which was diagnosed in 1909 and made his life increasingly difficult.

When Debussy died on March 26, Paris was under fire and only a small funeral procession could accompany him to the cemetery.

The founder of French opera

Lully (1632-1687) is considered the founder of French opera. Born in Florence, he was brought to Paris to a noble house as a 14-year-old garcon de chambre. He was a talented musician and very good dancer when, at the age of 20, he met the 14-year-old future Sun King Louis XIV. Louis was also a dance enthusiast and a friendship developed between the two. For the next 30 years, Lully was employed at court and made it to the position of “Secrétaire du roi”.

He composed popular comedies for the court, first in collaboration with Molière, and then, in collaboration with Quinaut, the first operas, the so-called “Tragédie lyrique”, in which chorus and ballet played an important role, but without castrati as was common in Italy at the time.

Perhaps the most famous composer’s death

At some point, Lully fell out with the king and Lully wanted to repair the relationship. Seeing an opportunity, when the king had again survived one of his many cruel operations (depending on the source, it was after the removal of a fist-sized abscess on his buttocks or after the failed extraction of a tooth, in which the palate was torn out and the bleeding in the throat stopped with a hot iron ), Lully wrote a “Te Deum” as a mass of thanksgiving for 150 musicians, and had it performed in a church at his own expense in the presence of the king. While conducting, he rammed the tip of the two-meter-long tambour stick into his big toe. The toe became infected and Lully refused amputation and died of blood poisoning.

Cimetière d’Auteuil

Gounod had a close relationship with the church. As a young man, he toyed with the idea of becoming a priest for some time. He attended the theological seminary and wore a priest’s robe. Before that, he had already been the organist and choir director of a church for six years. Throughout his life, Gounod was torn between worldliness and the church and was never able to properly resolve this split. This led to a nervous crisis during the composition of his most important work, Faust, and he had to be hospitalized for a short time.

His most famous work was Ave Maria, which he composed based on a prelude by Bach.

He died in Paris. While working on a requiem, he suffered a stroke and fell into a coma. The funeral service was held at the Madeleine, where Camille Saint-Saens played works by Gounod on the organ….

He was buried in the family tomb in the Cimetière d’Auteuil in Paris.

Cemetery Vyšehrad

The Bohemian composer was born Friedrich Smetana in the Bohemian province in 1824. Educated in the German language in the tradition of the time, he did not learn the Czech language until he was an adult. In 1856, he left for Gothenburg with his wife and children because he was unhappy with the autocratic government in his homeland. Within a few years, two children died, and on the return trip from Gothenburg in 1859, his wife died of tuberculosis.

In 1860, the “Bartered Bride” was performed with good success at the Prague Interim Theater, the forerunner of the National Theater, where Smetana held the post of Kapellmeister. He actually wanted to become director of the theater, but because he was a supporter of the New Germans around Liszt and Wagner, he was denied. This feud dragged on during his tenure with many intrigues and quarrels, which ruined Smetana’s health. A tinnitus (according to him, an A-flat major sex chord) made itself felt and by 1873 Smetana was completely deaf and he retired from his post.

Nevertheless, in the following years he composed his best-known work, “Ma Vlast” (“My Fatherland”). He wrote it in the countryside, where he had moved out with his second wife and children to live with his sister. The first piece of this 6-part cycle is called Vyšehrad, it is about the castle on the Vltava River, at the foot of which he was buried 10 years later.

Smetana was buried in this cemetery on the grounds of the castle. His physical and mental health deteriorated in the last years of his life and he had to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where he died.

Smetana’s tomb:

Tikhvin Cemetery

Glinka was a frequent traveler in the last decade of his life and died unexpectedly of a cold in Berlin after a stay of several months. His body was subsequently repatriated and his tomb is located in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery cemetery.

Tikhvin Cemetery:

Glinka’s gravesite:

Tikhvin Cemetery

Mussorgsky literally drank himself to death. He died in a St. Petersburg hospital at the age of 42. His body is buried in the spectacular Tikhvin Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg.

Tikhvin Cemetery

His grave is located in the Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Saint Petersburg. Tchaikovsky’s abdication took place in Kazan Cathedral, and the attendance was huge, with 60,000 people requesting tickets. The grave is located in the Tikhvin cemetery in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. Alexander Borodin, Mikhail Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov and Modest Mussorgsky are also buried near it.

Grave of Peter Tchaikovsky:

Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari

In 1613, the 46-year-old Monteverdi found himself in difficult economic circumstances. His underpaid job as maestro at the court of Mantua was on the line because the new duke was not a lover of the arts like his just-deceased predecessor. So it came in handy for Monteverdi that the position as music director of St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice became vacant. In this important position he found the artistic and economic recognition he had been seeking.When the plague struck in 1632, he lost his son and became ill. After his recovery, under the impact of the plague epidemic, he had himself ordained a priest.

Already over 70 years old, he reinvented himself once again when Venice opera opened up to secular themes and needed operas for the carnival season. The opera was independent of a court theater and was attended by a middle-class audience seeking entertainment during the carnival season. He abandoned the usual mythological material and wrote the scathing satire “L’incoronazione di Poppea.”
TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi’s tomb is in the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari.

Monteverdi’s tomb:

Here you will find a google map of the Zentralfriedhof, Zoom-In to find the tombs.

Hietzing Cemetery

Alban Berg was in economic difficulties when his health began to weaken. Performances of his works were already branded as Degenerate Art in Germany and he was thus missing out on important income. Out of thrift, his wife cut open a boil herself. Berg was then admitted to a hospital, but he died there from the blood poisoning that developed.

In the cemetery Hietzing are other honorary graves of other important personalities such as Anton Dermota, Anton Dermota, Gottfried von Einem, Gustav Klimt and Franz Grillparzer.

Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery)

Beethoven’s first resting place was at the Währinger Ortsfriedhof (local cemetery), where a tombstone still stands next to Schubert’s grave. In 1888, Beethoven body was moved to the Central Cemetery.

Beethoven’s grave at the Central Cemetery:

https://www.friedhoefewien.at/eportal3/ep/tab.do?tabId=0

The 29-year-old Brahms visited Vienna for the first time in 1862, and when he presented his G minor piano quartet at an evening event there, the director of the conservatory and musician Joseph Hellmesberger is said to have already proclaimed Brahms the heir to Beethoven. Although Brahms struggled with these comparisons throughout his life, he felt valued in Vienna, which could not be said of his native Hamburg, where his music met with skepticism and he was passed over for appointments. So he decided to accept an offer as choir master and moved to Vienna. Brahms’ center of life remained Vienna until his death.

Brahms died on April 3, 1897 in his apartment on Karlsgasse. According to the diagnosis at the time, it was liver cancer; today it is suspected that it was pancreatic cancer. He was buried in a grave of honor in Vienna’s Central Cemetery.

Brahms’ tomb:

Brahms on his deathbed:

Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery)

Gluck received an honorary grave in the Central Cemetery (Group 32 A, Number 49).

Gluck’s tomb:

Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery)

Mozart is buried in the St. Marx cemetery (see further down), but there is a grave of honor in the Central Cemetery.
TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart’s grave of honor in the Central Cemetery:

Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery)

Before his death, Schubert expressed his wish to be buried near Beethoven’s grave, at whose funeral celebrations a year earlier he had been one of the torchbearers. This wish was granted after his death on November 19, 1828, and he was buried two grave sites next to the great role model. The tomb was built according to the plans of his friend Schober.

In 1888 Schubert’s body was moved together with Beethoven’s grave from Währinger Friedhof to Zentralfriedhof. The gravestones remained in Währing and a copy was made for the Central Cemetery.

Schubert’s Grave:

Zentralfriedhof

Schönberg was a native of Vienna. His parents came from neighboring countries to the east and were of Jewish descent. Schoenberg converted to Christianity at the age of 24, in part to escape rampant anti-Semitism.

His first musical phase was late romantic with the main work “Transfigured Night”, later he composed atonally e.g. “Pierrot Lunaire” and then in the twelve-tone technique e.g. “Variations for Orchestra”. With his writings on compositional theory, he became an influential theorist, developing the foundation of modern, newer music (new resp. second Viennese school). Schoenberg later emigrated to the USA. Schönberg had a phobia of the number 13. He even went so far as to name his opera “Moses und Aron”, since the name with double A would have comprised 13 letters. He feared his death in a year that would correspond to a multiple of 13. This did not come true in the end, but he died on a day with the date of a 13. To be precise, on July 13, 1951.

Schönberg had died and been cremated in the USA and a grave of honor was erected for him in the Central Cemetery.

Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery)

Johann Strauss died of pneumonia at his home in Igelgasse in 1899. After the abdication service, the procession went through the city center and passed many places of activity such as the Theater an der Wien or the Court Opera. Tens of thousands paid their last respects to the musician and he was solemnly buried in the Central Cemetery.

His gravesite is very originally designed with many details, such as waltzing angels and a bat coming in for a landing.

https://www.wien.info/de/orte/zentralfriedhof

Cemetery St. Marx

It is common knowledge that Mozart was “disposed of” in a mass grave of the St. Marx cemetery, in a shaft grave according to the customs of the time (practically all Viennese received a 3rd class burial without a grave cross). The grave monument was erected on Mozart’s 100th birthday where the tomb is presumed to have been. In addition, Mozart also has a grave of honor in the Central Cemetery, which is located on the same streetcar line (in Vienna, die is also called, “to take the 71”, after the number of the streetcar line). The atmospheric St. Marx cemetery is enclosed between a highway triangle and Mozart is the only real “star dead”, nevertheless the visit is worthwhile.
TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
https://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/parks/anlagen/friedhof-st-marx.html

Mozart’s tomb:

Cemetery Grinzing

In Gustav Mahler’s youth, infant death was a terrible normality; four of his siblings died at an early age. Especially the death of his 13-year-old brother was a terrible experience for the then 15-year-old Gustav. Mahler processed these childhood experiences in his first symphony, with the famous brother Jacob motif as the theme of a funeral march.

When his beloved daughter died of diphtheria at the age of five, a world collapsed for Gustav and Alma, and Alma reproached her husband for his Kindertotenlieder (the songs on the death of children) he had written earlier as a terrible omen.

Gustav had Maria Anna buried in the Grinzing cemetery and in his will he stipulated that he be buried next to her.

Mahler’s tomb: