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“Where were we a year ago, Bink?” “In Vienna.” “In Vienna, swiving opera singers.” They shared a moment of silent recollection. “And now you’re…

— Alina K. Field

“Quote is taken from Chapter 1: A decade ago when Isabel’s husband Max had died, they’d moved in together and merged their possessions. Neither…

— Ed Lynskey

“This was why she was marrying him. Because Friedrich was a good man, and she loved him dearly. The country was important, yes, but…

— K.M. Shea

“Ravelstein mentioned that Keynes had married a Russian ballerina. He also explained to me that Uranus had fathered Aphrodite but that she had had…

— Saul Bellow

“The Minister-President or the richest magnate could walk the streets of Vienna without anyone turning around, but a court actor or an opera singer…

— Stefan Zweig

Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

— Victor Borge

“I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and that the memory weighed on her…

— Colum McCann

“But I am thinking now of your favorite of whom you have talked to me sometimes, and read me, too, some of his letters,…

— Hermann Hesse

“Perhaps Mozart’s Requiem would be fitting music for the end of the world. She began to hum Dies Irae, recalling its first performance in…

— Barry Kirwan

“And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride…

— E.M. Forster

“The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.”

— Charles Emmerson