Kärntner Straße
Grand pedestrian shopping avenue tracing a medieval trade route once known as the Carinthian road.
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This guide to Kärntner Straße in Vienna returns to the seventh of May 1824, when a nearly deaf Ludwig van Beethoven took the stage of the long-vanished Karntnertortheater to conduct the premiere of his Ninth Symphony. It follows the orchestra secretly told to watch a second conductor instead of him, and the ovation that broke out the moment the symphony ended. Picture the scene next time you cross this stretch of shops and cafes.
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