The Viennese palace of the Lobkowitz family in 1805, from a coloured engraving by Vincenz Reim. Two years younger than Beethoven and a keen musician himself, Prince Lobkowitz became one of the composer’s most loyal and long-suffering patrons. The palace remained in the Lobkowitz family’s possession until 1980 and is today the Austrian Theatre Museum.

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