The story of “Hansl Schmid, the Last Master of the Viennese Songs” („Hansl Schmid, dem letzten Herrn des Wienerliedes“) shows that you can answer the question in a flexible way whether one should earn ones living with his/her creativity or whether one should live with his/her creativity and be successful without any super star contest.
In 1897 Johann Schmid was born in Ottaktring. Together with friends his parents rent the restaurant in the Türkenschanzpark. Johann grows up with concerts of military musicians, Deutschmeister, dragoons, 84er. 1908 his parents give him a piano and he becomes an opera lover: from Walküre till the Tote Stadt. Although very musical Johann studies at the commercial college. Read the rest of this entry »
