{"id":1614,"date":"2024-02-16T16:13:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2024-03-21T16:17:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T15:17:46","slug":"mozart-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/blog\/2024\/02\/16\/mozart-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozart Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/mozart-kl-100-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/mozart-kl-100-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/mozart-kl-100-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/mozart-kl-100-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/mozart-kl-100-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/mozart-kl-100-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/mozart-kl-100-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The monument to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, created by sculptor Viktor Tilgner and Arch. Carl K\u00f6nig was unveiled on Albertinaplatz five days after Tilgner&#8217;s death on April 21, 1896. Soon after its unveiling, there were calls for a change of location, and after bomb damage during World War II, it was finally moved to the Burggarten in 1953.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The late historicist statue made of Lasa marble &#8211; a hard, durable and weather-resistant marble from South Tyrol &#8211; shows the composer with a music stand on a three-tiered pedestal with a keyboard-shaped upper edge and bronze instruments and a laurel wreath, flanked by angels playing music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below this, a bas-relief depicts the invitation and appearance of the Stone Guest from the opera &#8222;Don Giovanni&#8220;, a reference to the opening performance of the Vienna State Opera in 1869. On the reverse, the six-year-old composer is shown at the piano surrounded by his family with his father Leopold playing the violin and his sister Nannerl singing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monument to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, created by sculptor Viktor Tilgner and Arch. Carl K\u00f6nig was unveiled on Albertinaplatz five days after Tilgner&#8217;s death on April 21, 1896. Soon after its unveiling, there were calls for a change of location, and after bomb damage during World War II, it was finally moved to the Burggarten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-1010wien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}