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6 December: The revolutionary Blue Bottle (Zur Blauen Flasche)

The eventful year 1848 brought a bourgeois revolution to Vienna. Johann Strausssenior and junior were involved on both sides musically, but for one Strauss hisinvolvement was, meanwhile, quite momentous. A piece of musical history was(presumably) written the Blue Bottle Inn (Gasthaus Zur Blauen Flasche) in thedistrict of Ottakring. Interestingly, caterwauling (Katzenmusik) played acacophonous supporting role in all of this.

Barbara Boisits

The eventful year 1848 brought a bourgeois revolution to Vienna. Johann Strausssenior and junior were involved on both sides musically, but for one Strauss hisinvolvement was, meanwhile, quite momentous. A piece of musical history was(presumably) written the Blue Bottle Inn (Gasthaus Zur Blauen Flasche) in thedistrict of Ottakring. Interestingly, caterwauling (Katzenmusik) played acacophonous supporting role in all of this. (Full text on ORF Topos)

https://topos.orf.at/straussmania-zur-blauen-flasche102

Franz Schams (Lithograf), Franz Schams (Künstler), “Das erste (Kulćzyčki’sche) Kaffeehaus in Wien, 1684 / Vom oesterreichischen Kunstvereine in Wien, 1862” – Darstellung des vermeintlich “ersten”, der Legende nach von Georg Franz Kolschitzky betriebenen Wiener Kaffeehauses (“Zur blauen Flasche”), 1862, Wien Museum Inv.-Nr. 47913, CC0 (https://sammlung.wienmuseum.at/objekt/428262/)