Listen to highlights of Vienna’s musical masterpieces on headphones along with expert commentary from your music historian guide on a walking tour that helps you discover the world’s most famous composers: Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven among others. This 3-hour Vienna music tour takes you by the major sites where these legends lived and performed. You’ll explore monuments built to honor them in the “City of Music.” As a counterpart, we examine the impact of the Habsburg family’s patronage on Vienna’s development into the world capital of classical music.
Visit Stephansdom, performance venue for Haydn and Mozart, Salieri and Vivaldi. Stroll by Mozarthaus where Mozart wrote many of his famous operas and instrumentals. Pass by Beethoven’s monument and explore his erratic life, living in sixty apartments in Vienna. Pass by the palace where Archduke Rudolph took piano lessons with Beethoven. Consider the musical dominance of Vienna at the legendary State Opera House and Musikverein.
Pickup included
Visit Stephansdom, discovering how this Vienna's iconic cathredral served as an important performance venue in previous centuries for Haydn and Mozart, Salieri and Vivaldi.
Stroll by Figaro House (or Mozarthaus) where Mozart resided from 1784 to 1787, writing many of his most famous operas and instrumental pieces.
Pass by Beethoven’s monument and explore his erratic life, living in sixty different apartments throughout Vienna.
Choose to be picked up from a list of locations
When you book your tour, we send you your historian guide's photo, phone number and bio. Your guide is delighted to meet you at your hotel or holiday flat. If you should need to use public transport to get to the tour sites, we do not include your tram or metro tickets but your guide will help you to purchase if you don't have a pass. If you prefer a central meeting point, your guide can meet you at Café Mozart, Albertinaplatz 2.
When you have booked your tour, we send you your historian guide's photo, phone number and bio.