A few hundred years after the invention of the cat organ, in 1868 Austrian artist Moritz von Schwind (21 January 1804 – 8 February 1871) created his own music for cats, the Katzensymphonie. In the Katzensymphonie (1868), cats roll and climb over the musical score. Schwind and Joachim were members of Die Schwarzen Katzen (The Black Cats), a society founded by the singer Amalie Joachim, and Bernhard and Luise Scholz in 1862. The merchants had to admit defeat to the black cat and, without further tasting, bought the wine the cat had defended and which they had long recognised as the best. Outdated, outdated, outdated stuff — I need a new, spiritualized, lively means of expression for my new, unimagined thoughts — whether it’s sounds, images or the devil knows what, it doesn’t matter — I have achieved the unbelievable.