Our tour of Vienna was scheduled for today. We loaded the bus this morning and got an extensive (if artificial, since we were in a bus) view of Vienna, complete with a stop at the Zentral Friedhof, or Central Cemetery where we were able to see the graves of some of the most important composers of all times. Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Wolf, Strauss, Schubert and Schoenberg all claim this cemetery as their final resting place, and although most of the musicians buried here were originally interred at different cemeteries in the greater Vienna area, someone had the bright idea of relocating all the graves to one central location for easy access. The central location of all these graves makes it easy on the tourists, but unfortunately, it felt a bit “reconstructed” since all the composers had
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