Pasqualati House, Beethoven Museum in Innere Stadt, Austria
Pasqualati House is a museum in Vienna's city center housed in a late 18th century building situated on the site of the former city wall. The space displays exhibits and artifacts from when composer Ludwig van Beethoven resided there.
Peter Mollner built the house in 1797 for Joseph Benedikt, Baron Pasqualati von Osterberg, physician to Maria Theresa, by joining two smaller residences. The earlier buildings had housed a stonemason's workshop and, in 1770, composers Florian Gassmann and Antonio Salieri. Pasqualati's son Johann Baptist, who inherited it in 1799, let Beethoven live there from 1804 to 1808 and 1810 to 1814.
The memorial occupies the flat next to Beethoven's own fourth-floor apartment, which is rented and not shown. It displays Joseph Willibrord Mähler's 1804/05 portrait of the composer and Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder's 1814 portrait of Count Andrey Razumovsky, plus items from Beethoven's possessions, facsimiles and two audio stations. The memorial belongs to the Vienna Museum.
The Beethoven memorial occupies a fourth-floor apartment reached by a spiral staircase of Kaisersteinbruch stone with its original wrought-iron railings. Beethoven's own flat is next door but is rented and cannot be visited. The building stands on the Mölker Bastei ramp at the corner of Schreyvogelgasse; the memorial belongs to the Vienna Museum.
The basement contains preserved sections of the medieval Vienna city fortifications that visitors can see firsthand. These underground remains offer a rare look at how the city once defended itself from centuries past.
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