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Conversely, Beethoven would regularly escape bustling Vienna for long, solitary walks in the verdant Wienerwald, where he found musical inspiration.

Beethoven was intimately familiar with the natural rhythms of the Wienerwald, the forests on the outskirts of Vienna where he found inspiration.

There was a Wienerwald and Starbucks and Mr. Lee Chinese food joint.

Asbrink also claims in her book, And in Wienerwald the Trees Remain, that the founder of the Swedish furniture chain was in contact with Nazi sympathisers until at least 1950 – two years longer than he had previously acknowledged.

And then the strokes that pierce through each scene — courteously romantic in the Wienerwald opening scene, jubilant in the Frühlingsstimmen, bawdy in the Explosions-Polka, glamorous in the Gold und Silber Walzer, intimately dramatic in the Rosenkavalier finale — deepen the stage picture.