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Berger, Erna b. October 19, 1900 d. June 14, 1990
Opera Singer. Erna Berger studied with Melitta Hirzel and Hertha Boeckel making her stage debut at the Dresden Staatsoper in 1925. She stayed with the company until 1928 singing many small roles at first, including a part in the World Premier of Busoni's "Doktor Faust" in 1925. By 1926 she was given larger parts and in 1927 she sung the title role of Paul Graener's "Hannales Himmelfahrt" at the World Premier, as well as smaller roles in the World Premiers of Strauss's "Agyptische Helena (1928)...[Read More] (Bio by: Harmonie Autographs and Music, Inc.)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Bettauer, Hugo b. August 18, 1872 d. March 26, 1925
Austrian novelist, journalist and playwright. One of his most famous novels is Die freudlose Gasse (The Joyless Street), which was filmed by G. W. Pabst with Greta Garbo, and he was also famous for his anti-Nazi satire of anti-semitism Die Stadt ohne Juden (The State without Jews), which was subsequently made into a play and then filmed, with Hans Moser. In 1925 he was assassinated by a Nazi Party follower. (Bio by: Rudi Polt)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Billroth, Theodor b. April 26, 1829 d. February 6, 1894
Medical Pioneer. He was the first surgeon on the world to achieve success against stomach cancer by removing a part of the stomach.
Cause of death: heart attack
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Bittner, Julius b. April 9, 1874 d. January 9, 1939
Composer, Librettist. One of Austria's most frequently performed opera composers in the years before World War II. Bittner's distinctively nationalist stage works, for which he wrote his own texts, were fantasies based on folk or fairy tales and typically set in the Alps. "The Infernal Gold" (1916) was his greatest success. His other operas include "The Red Greed" (1907), "The Musician" (1909), "The Mountain Lake" (1911), "The Rose Garden" (1923), and "The Violets" (1934). Bittner...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group 32C, No. 15
Bleibtreu, Hedwig b. December 23, 1868 d. January 24, 1958
Actress. Born in Linz, Austria, she made her stage debut in 1886 at the Theater of Augsburg in Germany. In 1891 she moved to Vienna, where she became the doyenne of the National Theatre. She later appeared in the silent films "Die Herrin der Welt" (1919) and "Die Kurtisane von Venedig" (1924). Her most famous screen performance was as the Old Landlady in Carol Reed's classic "The Third Man" (1949). During her long career Bleibtreu appeared in more than 50 films and 200 plays. She was married...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Poetzleinsdorfer Friedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Boesch, Ruthilde b. January 9, 1918 d. January 20, 2012
Opera Singer. A coloratura soprano, she is remembered for her long career at the Vienna State Opera (VSO). Raised in Modling, she studied at the Vienna Music Academy with bass Alfred Jerger and made her 1945 professional and VSO bow as Susanna from Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro". Ruthilde was to be heard at the venerable house 387 times in 38 roles up to 1974, her noted portrayals including several Mozartian characters, among them, in addition to Susanna, Barbarina in "The Marriage of Figaro"...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Boltzmann, Ludwig b. February 20, 1844 d. September 5, 1906
Physicist. He is best remembered for his development of statistical mechanics to explain and predict how the properties of atoms determine the visible properties of matter. Born Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann his father was a government revenue official. He received his primary education at home from a private tutor and attended high school in Linz, Austria. In 1863 he studied physics at the University of Vienna, receiving his PhD degree in 1866, with his dissertation being on the kinetic theory...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group 14C, Number 1
Boskovsky, Willi b. June 16, 1909 d. April 21, 1991
The most famous first violin player of one of the world's bestclassic orchestra "Wiener Philharmoniker."
Cause of death: Natural causes
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group33G, Number 78
Brahms, Johannes b. May 7, 1833 d. April 3, 1897
Composer. He ranks as one of the major figures of 19th Century music. During his lifetime Brahms was called "Beethoven's Heir" because his music united great expressive freedom with rigorous Classical form. He is known for his four symphonies and concertos, his vocal and chamber works, and his music for solo piano. Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany. His father, a poor doublebass player, taught him the fundamentals of music, and by age nine he was a gifted pianist. He also started composing...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group 32 A, Number 26 (next to Johann Strauss, Jr.)
Brandt, Marianne b. September 12, 1842 d. July 9, 1921
Opera Singer. She was a leading Germanic mezzo soprano of the late 19th. century. Born Marie Bischoff, little is recorded of her early years save that she studied in Vienna and in Baden-Baden with the noted mezzo Pauline Viardot before making her 1867 debut at Olmutz in the soprano role of Rachel in Jacques Halevy's "La Juive". She was to bow at Berlin in 1868 as the Gypsy Azucena from Verdi's "Il Trovatore" and to spend the next 14 seasons there, receiving the now honourary title of...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Hadersdorf, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Brüll, Ignaz b. November 7, 1846 d. September 17, 1907
Pianist, Composer. At an early age he decided he would rather pursue a career in the musical world than follow in the footsteps of his wealthy, Jewish merchant father. He wrote his first opera at the age of eighteen and event though it was never produced, it provided him with some degree of fame with his piano performance. For several years he tour. While he was touring the great music centers of Europe for the next several years he also wrote his second opera, "Das goldene Kreuz." This opera...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Böhm, Johann b. January 26, 1886 d. May 13, 1959
Politician and trade unionist, pioneered partnership between business and unions.
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Cebotari, Maria b. February 10, 1910 d. June 9, 1949
Maria Cebotari was a Soprano and sang as a child in a church in Maldovia. After that, she played on stage in Moscow with famous artists and got married to Count Wirubow in 1930. When she arrived in Paris, she decided to developpe her voice. Then she went on study to Berlin. From there, the State Opera House of Dresde called her. She stood there until 1943. She was also appearing in the Opera Houses of Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Bucarest, Zurich, Milano and Rome. In 1938, she divorced her husband...[Read More] (Bio by: Rudi Polt)
Döblinger Friedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Chotek, Duchess of Hohenburg, Sophie Maria Josephine Albina [cenotaph] b. March 1, 1868 d. June 28, 1914
Austrian Royalty. She was the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and was assassinated with him at Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in the event that touched off World War I.
Kapuzinergruft, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: (Cenotaph)
Clery, Jean Baptiste d. May 27, 1809
The stone reads: "The faithful Clery, the last servant of Louis XVI" stands. He escorted Louis XVI to his execution, he stood by Louis XVI until the king's last breath under the guillotine. After that date (July 14, 1789), Clery lived mostly in Vienna. He became a very respected person. The French ambassy in Vienna assumed the costs for this grave.
Cause of death: Natural causes.
Hietzinger Friedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Grave number III/6
Cuspinian, Johannes b. 1473 d. April 19, 1529
Humanist, poet, and counsellor of the Emperor Maximilian, who made him curator of the University in vienna. The monument shows him with his two wives and eight children. (Bio by: David Conway)
Saint Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Next to Chapel of the Cross
Czerny, Carl b. February 20, 1791 d. July 15, 1857
Piano Teacher and Composer. Born in Vienna, he was precociously gifted as a pianist and studied with Hummel, Salieri, and Beethoven before making his performing debut in 1800. Beethoven thought well enough of Czerny's abilities to entrust him with the premieres of his Piano Concerto No. 1 (1806) and Piano Concerto No. 5 (the "Emperor", 1812). But Czerny disliked life as a touring virtuoso and chose to remain in Vienna, composing and teaching. By the age of 15 he was already a sought-after piano...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group 0, Row 1, Number 49
David, Johann Nepomuk b. November 30, 1895 d. December 22, 1977
Composer. Born in Eferding, Upper Austria, he studied at the monastery of St. Florian near Linz, and graduated from the Vienna Academy in 1923. He spent much of his long career as an academic, with professorships at the conservatories of Leipzig (1934 to 1945), Salzburg (1945 to 1948), and Stuttgart (1948 to 1963). David identified with no particular school and his style was an energetic synthesis of modern and traditional modes; he also found inspiration in Lutheranism and visual...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group 32C, No. 43
Deutsch, Otto Erich b. September 5, 1883 d. November 23, 1967
Musicologist. He is regarded as the single most important authority on the life and music of Franz Schubert, to whom he dedicated over 60 years of research. His seminal "Schubert: A Thematic Catalogue" (1950) established the chronology of Schubert's nearly 1000 compositions, only a fraction of which were published in the composer's lifetime. To this day they are identified by their "Deutsch numbers" (example, the...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria
Plot: Group 40, No. 12
Diabelli, Antonio b. September 6, 1781 d. April 7, 1858
Music Publisher, Editor, and Composer. In 1818 he co-founded the Vienna music publishing firm Cappi & Diabelli, which became Diabelli & Co. in 1824. To publicize the new venture, Diabelli penned a little waltz for piano and invited Austria's leading composers to write variations on it, the results to be collected in a printed album. Fifty composers contributed pieces, including Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and Carl Czerny. Ludwig Van Beethoven, however...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Saint Marxer Friedhof Cemetery, Vienna, Vienna (Wien), Austria

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