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The six-year-old gave his first Vienna concert here in 1762.

One of the top jazz clubs in town is mainly dedicated to modern jazz. Alongside star names, many newcomers also get the chance to play.

The Rabenhof was constructed as council housing for workers in the 1920s and an assembly hall for the workers’ union was built in the basement. This was adapted into a theatre between 1987 and 1992. Today there is a colourful programme of modern plays, comedies and other performances.

The RadioKulturhaus offers a programme of jazz and classical concerts, literary readings and films. Most of the concerts are broadcast on the radio station Ö1.

The theatre is named after the Austrian playwright Ferdinand Raimund (1790–1836), as the theatre opened its gates with one of his popular plays in 1893. The Raimundtheater has always specialized in music – after a period of operettas, today it is mainly used as a stage for musicals.

Also in the arcades of the metro, it has a daily DJ line-up of electronic music.

The original Ronacher, built in 1870, staged tragedies and comedies, but after it burned down in the 1880s architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer replaced it with a variety theatre. Neglected after World War II, the Ronacher reopened in 1988 with the musical Cats .

The Schauspielhaus offers a multifaceted programme that includes literary readings and light operas as well as contemporary drama. Since its foundation in 1978, the theatre has seen many Austrian but also world premieres, particularly by the Austrian dramatist George Tabori (born in 1914). It is also one of the many venues for productions by the Wiener Festwochen, Vienna’s most important theatre festival (see p80). Being fairly small, the audience has the advantage of being very close to the actors.

Mozart married Constanze Weber on 4 August 1782 in the cathedral (see pp8–11).