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An exhibition devoted to mechanical music in Vienna in the 18th and
19th century will be displayed in Vienna from June to November, 1999.

Featured will be clocks with different kinds of carillons, and a wide
range of mantle clocks and picture clocks with musical box movements
by Olbrich, Rzebitschek, Einsidl, Goez and others.

On display there will also be three typical Viennese organ works,
one flute clock from about 1800, a writing secretaire and a sofa (organ
work by Christian Heinrich) from the first half of the 19th century.

All the items shown come from the collections of the Austrian Museum
for Applied Art, Vienna, and the exhibition will be housed in the
appropriate setting of the Geymueller Schloessel, a Biedermeier palais,
which belongs to the Museum of Applied Art.

The exhibition will be open from June 18 to November 11 1999, Thursday
to Sunday 10.00 to 17.00.  The museum will publish an illustrated
catalogue and a CD, which will be available at the exhibition or can
be ordered directly from the Museum of Applied Arts.

For further information contact the Geymueller Schloessel, tel
+43-1-4793139, Fax +43-1-473139-3, or the Museum for Applied Arts,
tel +43-1- 71136, Fax +43-1-71136-222, or visit the web page of the
Geymueller Schloessel at

    http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/bundesmuseen/MAK/2/MAIN.HTM

Sincerely

Helmut Kowar

 [ Dr. Helmut Kowar is a member of the staff at the Sound Archive
 [ of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; his specialties are ethno-
 [ musicology and mechanical music instruments.  His interests are
 [ apparent at this very interesting web site entitled "Mechanical
 [ Musical Instruments from the collections of the Phonogrammarchiv
 [ of the Austrian Academy of Sciences":
 [
 [    http://www.kfs.oeaw.ac.at/DLI/mech/dlidem1.htm
 [
 [ -- Robbie