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Secretaire with musical clock
cabinet: Streiter, Dresden
barrell organ: Joseph Hain, Vienna
clock: Friedrich Wichmann, Vienna
1814 - 1818
Inv.-Nr. 3373
Musical box exhibited in
Classic
Adagio con molto espressione (extract)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
From the CD
Automatic instruments
Photographer: Janos Stekovics
The secretaire seen here, fashioned in the Empire style, obviously belonged to a wealthy aristocrat. The barrel organ plays a work by Beethoven.
