Steffl (Mozart Minute 06)

Ground floor: perfume department,
Second floor: women´s nightwear,
Third floor: women´s fashions,
Fourth floor: men´s socks and underwear,
Fifth floor: children´s fashions,
Sixth floor: computers and telecommunications,
Seventh floor: CDs, DVDs, VHS,
Eight floor: Mozart.

I´ve been familiar with the Steffl department store since I was a child. The house where Mozart died stood on the same site in the 19th-century, so and for that reason there was a Mozart monument in the fifth-floor suitcase and bag department. It consisted of a larger-than-life bronze bust of Mozart, a display case with photocopies of the first few pages of the "Requiem" score and a marble plaque with the following inscription in gold letters:

"Unequalled master of the art of music, who lived here until his death, this monument was dedicated at the Pietro Calvagni building´s renovation, 1849."

(Michael Kreihsl)