September 9, 2022 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/1746px-Portrait_of_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart_at_the_age_of_13_in_Verona_1770-154x190.jpg

We’ve come through the dark night in Vienna to a brighter morning. Vocally, one might say today’s post shifts the dynamics and perhaps shapes a livelier melody as we walk in the footsteps of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van …

September 8, 2022 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/DSCN3800Gate-of-Violence-Sculpture-190x143.jpg

In the interest of full disclosure, I have to reveal that while the first three posts of my first full day in Vienna are, as far as I can make them, accurate descriptions of the places as I experienced them …

September 7, 2022 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/painting-bathory-WikiComm-190x138.jpg

I decided to write today’s post in red because it’s about my walk to and past the Ungarisches Haus (Hungarian House) at 12 Augustinerstraße – the Vienna home of Countess Elizabeth Báthory. Elizabeth was born to a noble family in …