Sightseeing and roaming in Vienna Central Cemetery

In the middle of three thick iron gates in the cemetery, there are two minarets-shaped monuments to Emperor Franz. Entering the gate, it is a straight and wide asphalt road. At the end of the road stands a church with a hemispherical green roof. On both sides of the road are a row of arcades with red bricks and green roofs, decorated with gorgeous cemeteries of former emperors and nobles. On the left side of the road is a Mozart monument, which was built in 1859. This is a bronze monument with Mozart's profile head on the front of the base. The statue of the goddess of music on it looks sad, sitting on a pile of music manuscripts and holding an unfinished sheet of music in his hand. Mozart's life was also poor. After his death, he couldn't even afford a decent cemetery, so he had to be buried in the graves of the poor beside St. Max's cemetery. Later, his friends chipped in to repair his grave and set up a tombstone. A nearby Xiaotian leaned his head on the tombstone with his hand. In order to commemorate this history, the Friends of Music Association decided not to move his body to the Central Cemetery, but to build a monument here. Since then, this small cemetery has become a gathering place for famous musicians, playwrights and directors. With the monument as the center, the tombs of Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and johann strauss are distributed in a semicircle.

Beethoven's tombstone has three pines and cypresses on three sides. This is a cone-shaped marble tombstone with simple and square shape. On the front base, it is written in black letters: "Beethoven 1770 ~ 1827". There is a golden harp carved in the middle of the tombstone, and there is a snake around a golden butterfly spreading its wings and flying at the top. Butterfly symbolizes Beethoven who longs for free flight, and snake symbolizes disease. Beethoven's hearing began to decline obviously at the age of 26, but he wrote many famous works until his ears were deaf. Beethoven's life is a life of tenacious struggle with fate.

On the right side of Beethoven's tombstone is Schubert's tomb, which is also white marble, more than 2 meters high. On the tombstone, a winged goddess of music is carving a musical laurel for Schubert. Under Schubert's head, there is a little angel and his flower basket. Schubert admired Beethoven's musical talent very much and regarded himself as a student of Beethoven. On his deathbed, he left a will and asked to be buried next to Beethoven. However, both musicians were poor before their death and were buried in a small cemetery in the city at first. It was not until 1888 that the Friends of Music Association moved them to the Central Cemetery and built a bigger tombstone for them.

Opposite the tombs of Beethoven and Schubert, there is the tomb of Brahms, another music master. Above the tombstone, there is a bust of Brahms' meditation music score. Next to it is the "King of Waltz"-the graveyard of johann strauss II. Little John's tombstone looks the most gorgeous. On the tombstone, surrounded by several music goddesses, it is the head of little Strauss smiling at people, as if humming his melodious masterpiece "Blue Danube Waltz". The graves of his father Johann Strauss I and his eldest brother Joseph Strauss are also nearby. Around these musicians' cemeteries, there are many other artists' cemeteries. Exquisitely carved tombstones record their prominent status and experiences during their lifetime.