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Austrian Roman Catholics

  • Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart was four years old when his father began teaching him minuets at the clavier, treating it as a game.
  • Gustav MahlerGustav Mahler was born on the 7th of July 1860 in a village in Bohemia, the second son of a coachman-turned-innkeeper who had clawed his way up from nothing.
  • Francis II, Holy Roman EmperorOn the 6th of August 1806, a Habsburg monarch signed away a thousand years of European tradition. Francis II declared the bond tying him to the states of the…
  • Anna Maria MozartAnna Maria Walburga Mozart was born on Christmas Day, 1720, in the small town of St. Gilgen in the Archbishopric of Salzburg.
  • Joseph II, Holy Roman EmperorOn the night of the 19th to the 20th of February 1790, Joseph II slept for a few hours, helped along by painkillers. At five in the morning he woke and asked…
  • Joseph HaydnJoseph Haydn once described himself as a man with no escape from his own mind. "Usually musical ideas are pursuing me, to the point of torture," he told his…
  • Maria TheresaMaria Theresa was born on the 13th of May 1717 in Vienna, six months after the death of her elder brother, and her arrival was met not with celebration but…
  • Margaret of Austria, Duchess of SavoyMargaret of Austria was born on the 10th of January 1480 in Brussels. Her mother Mary of Burgundy died when Margaret was only four years old.
  • Leopold MozartLeopold Mozart spent the better part of his adult life in the shadow of a son he helped create. Born in Augsburg on the 14th of November 1719, he grew into a…
  • Constanze MozartMaria Constanze Cäcilia Josepha Johanna Aloysia Mozart entered the world on the 5th of January 1762 in Zell im Wiesental.
  • Otto von HabsburgOtto von Habsburg was born on the 20th of November 1912 at Villa Wartholz in Reichenau an der Rax, at a moment when Austria-Hungary still stood as one of the…
  • Carl CzernyCarl Czerny was born on the 21st of February 1791 in Vienna's Leopoldstadt district, and he died in the same city on the 15th of July 1857, having never once…