Zentralfriedhof - III - Moving Toward the Musicians

This stone appears to have a fairy along with a cherub to admire and mourn the resident.

Next we being the exploration of the graves of musicians. Here is Johann Ritter von Herbeck. He was a self-taught musician and is best known for conducting the premier of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony in 1865.

Franz von Suppé was a composer of light operas and other theater music. He is best known for he four dozen operettas. One of his most familiar pieces today is the Light Cavalry Overture.

Here is one of the star attractions: Ludwig von Beethoven.

Beethoven's funeral procession in Vienna on 29 March 1827 was attended by an estimated 10,000 people.^[184] Franz Schubert and the violinist Joseph Mayseder were among the torchbearers. A funeral oration by the poet Franz Grillparzer was read by the actor Heinrich Anschütz.^[185] Beethoven was buried in the Währing cemetery, north-west of Vienna, after a requiem mass at the church of the Holy Trinity (Dreifaltigkeitskirche) in Alserstrasse. Beethoven's remains were exhumed for study in 1863, and moved in 1888 to Vienna's Zentralfriedhof where they were reinterred in a grave adjacent to that of Schubert.^[177][186]

But, of course, the star Amadeus Mozart. His cenotaph sits in a central location. He is buried in St. Marx Cemetery in an unmarked grave.

But there are plenty of famous names actually buried (or re-interred) here. For example, Franz Schubert is resting here. As you can see, many still come to pay respects by leaving flowers and candles.