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¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 Vienna 396
¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 be magnificent but now every leaf has fallen.
¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 As far as we can see to the right and left we cant even now see the outside, but there are altogether six of these avenues leading through it from the city.
¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 Vienna is bles^s^ed with many hansome parks and gardens throughout the city, several of them private containing a music and drinking hall on the principle of our American Dutch lager-beer gardens, but much more elegant. The Kursalle is a fine piece of architecture in a large hansome garden. And around these parks are the most elegant buildings, stores, Palaces, and public buildings. Since the war of 1866 the Nobbs have more confidence in the liberality of their Gov^t and are spending their vast wealth in hansome edifices to the glory of Vienna. There are an endless number of hansome palaces for this multitude of Princes Arch Dukes, Grand Dukes, +c far in excess of any other city.
¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 2 We wanted to hear Strauss’ great orchestra, and was advised to hear him on Sunday evening. It was at an elegant music-hall. 60 instruments, fine music, but no better than Thomas of Boston and instead of sacred music, we were treated with “the Carnival of Venice.” Waltzes, Polkas, +c. Entrance fee 25 cts
¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 [-Kursalle Interior-]
Johann Strauss II (1825 – 1899), also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son , was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as “The Waltz King”, and was largely then responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century.
Unclear, perhaps the Theodore Thomas Orchestra