Durchhaus (literally through-house) - a courtyard
At the same time Beethoven was at the pinnacle of his creative powers, despite his deafness and failing health, another composer faced disease, poverty and death in the imperial city of Vienna: Franz Schubert (b 1797 d 1828)
1823 was a hard year for Schubert. He was broke, his latest opera was a failure and he was sick with an outburst of late stage syphyllis and had to be hospitalised. In a letter he wrote to a friend:
“Think of a man whose health can never be restored, and who from sheer despair makes matters worse instead of better.
The Living Room 