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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 1m

Today is the 48th anniversary of Bing Crosby's death.

Bing Crosby Little one High Society

YouTube video by Milivoje Zdravković

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 7h

The marriage contract of Gluck's sister in law Maria Petronilla Josepha Bergin. On 22 December 1740, she married the Milanese architect Mauro Ignazio Valmagini.

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 7h

Andrea and my teddy bear.

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 7h

A receipt for a dowry of 2000 gulden in wine, written and witnessed by Franz Schubert's father in September 1807. Josepha Weigerth was the widow of an innkeeper and to keep her business alive she married her late husband's cousin who was 16 years her junior.

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 7h

Music from my cellphone. Art Pepper at his best.

Marty Paich and His Orchestra - Violets for Your Furs

YouTube video by 60otaku4

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 18h

Why has everyone forgotten what "beg the question" really means?

Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 20h

Page four of the 1813 contract between Tobias Haslinger and Sigmund Anton Steiner, written in Haslinger's impeccable hand.

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 20h

In the name of Walter and Alma Gropius, Carl Moll, in February 1919, requested the baptism of their son Martin Carl Johannes Gropius. The child died 5 months later. Its father was not Gropius, but Franz Werfel. Allegedly the child's premature birth was caused by "too impetuous intercourse".

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 20h

A page from the rental ledger of the Pfarrhof-Trakt of Vienna's Bürgerspital-Zinshaus, where, on the 3rd floor, from Michaeli 1786 until Michaeli 1788, Anton Stadler rented a three-room apartment.

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 20h

Seal and signature of Genuinus Schrebe. The only Genuinus who ever lived in Vienna.

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 2d

On 28 January 1805, the Bierabtrager Bartholome Schmidpeter from Himmelpfortgrund was killed "durch Pferdt Unglücke in Untersievering". The Sievering church records state: "ist Todtgeführt worden".

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 2d

The will of Anna Maria Neudecker, written on 26 December 1800 by Franz Schubert's father.

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 2d

A crumb from my Lenau research

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 2d

Maria Enzersdorf, October 1982

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 2d

In November 1737, Christoph Wagenseil applied for the position of court composer. Fux supported the application because, with Wagenseil, "composition according to the rules could be preserved given the current arbitrary method of writing." Wagenseil was hired with an annual salary of 360 gulden.

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 2d

Music from my cellphone.

Curtis Fuller - Five Spot After Dark

YouTube video by Santoszzz

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 2d

The seal of the cartwright Michael Höss.

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 3d

The Sperrs-Relation of the cotton printer Franz Köchl who died on 21 June 1764, at the house St. Joseph in Oberneustift. He was Ludwig Ritter von Köchel's great-grandfather.

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 3d

The will of Johann Baptist Neilreich (1731-1784) who in 1764 was the "Mundkoch" of Count Andrzej Poniatowski, and in 1784, died a wealthy "Schmalz Factor". In 1798, his son Franz Carl Neilreich married Josepha von Kurzböck. His grandson was the eminent botanist August Neilreich (1803-1871).

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 3d

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 3d

A great documentary!

John Candy: I Like Me - Official Trailer | Prime Video

YouTube video by Prime Video

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 3d

Venice, June 1980

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 4d

A "Quaestions-Currentale" from the Oberstes Hof-Postamt. Every time you think you know all the official documents of the I. & R. Monarchy, you come across a new one.

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 4d

Wie wurden Sie bekannt? Ich gewann den Nobelpreis.

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Michael Lorenz @michaelorenz.bsky.social · 4d

Today's stunning (but not unexpected) discovery: at some point of time, Franz Strauß (grandfather of Johann Strauss II) actually owned real estate in the Leopoldstadt.

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