Pictures, Pictures, and More Pictures

I'm sorry if this is too many pictures for some of you, but my mother insisted before I go that I take a lot of pictures. I also apologize if this format does not look too great, but it is very difficult in Blogger to get the pictures to line up properly with the text.

Anyway, on to the pictures now. All of these pictures were taking in the 1st district today. The first two pictures are of the Mozart statue and the Goethe statue which are on the outside of the Hofburg Burggarten.

The next three pictures are of the Augustinerkirche and the two pipe organs. I actually got to play the main organ in this church last summer. I was walking down the street with Jennifer (friend and fellow music theory student for those of you who don't know her) and heard the organ playing. Being the typical music theory and organ geek that I am, I said to her, "Hey, that's Mendelssohn's 3rd Organ Sonata. Let's go inside and see if we can get a tour of the organs." The organist had been playing the choir organ for a baptism and was playing the postlude, so when he finished we went over to talk to him. He agreed to give us a tour or the main organ later that afternoon, and I ended up playing for about an hour. They have the most active music program of any church in Vienna, and I am probably going to head down there on Sunday to see what they are performing.

The next two pictures are part of the Hofburg palace complex. It is definitely impossible to capture this huge complex in a few pictures. You really have to walk through it for yourself to take it all in. This was the winter residence for the Habsburg's, and is the official residence of the President of Austria. There are quite a few other sections of the palace in the complex, some of which serve as museums as well.

The last two pictures were taking in Michaelerplatz, just outside the main entrance to the Hofburg. In the early 1990s they unearthed the remains of a Roman building, as well as many other remnants from different historical eras. The first picture is the remains of the Roman building, and the second is NOT and aquaduct. Well, I guess it IS an aquaduct, but it is from the 19th century and was connected to the Danube canal. They really have everything labeled quite well and you can see the different layers from ancient Roman times up through the present day.

Well, you might be thinking that the pictures seem rather random. These were taken because they were all things I passed on my way from my apartment to a job interview in the 1st district. I am probably going to take a part time job which combines teaching English and music to children. I'll decide for sure next week after attending a few classes.

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