It is a dark, cold and windy night on this 14th December 1784.
The Police carry out their routine inspections as it is long after sunset that there are people huddling inside their coats and coaches to get to their destinations.
They all are hopeful not to be stopped by Police or security agents. We can only speculate what may have gone through the mind of the esteemed Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during the 10-minute walk from his apartment in Schulerstrasse to the meeting place of the Viennese Lodges in Landskrongasse.
His dislike for the Clergy may have caused him to crack a smile when passing by the seat of Austrian Catholic Church at St. Stephen’s Cathedral, being conscious that he is about to become a member of the society of men that already had invoked the irritation of and ban by the Catholic Church.
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2018 - 300 years of Freemasonry – A reflection on European Freemasonry during Mozart’s time - Ernst Krauss.
