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Classical Music

Vienna:Vienna: important city for musical innovation

European capital of classical music

three composers arose

last innovations

Beethoven's symphonic patterns

Mozart's balance between melody and form

Haydn's development of string quartet and sonata

division of music

popular compositions

serious art

Yodel

a type of throat singing developed in the Alps used to communicate across mountains presence of an echo is vital

Ländler

folk dance in 3/4 time sometimes purely instrumental, sometimes had a vocal part at the end of the 18th century

was popular in Austria south Germany German Switzerland

in the 19th century

quicker and more elegant

Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Also: Also:

Franz Schubert

Johann Strauss Jr.

Johann Strauss Sr.

Johannes Brahms

Arnold Schönberg

Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven

Joseph HaydnJoseph Haydn

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

With 4 years started his musical education

Was taught by his father

excellent performer and interested in composing music

1783 he moved into the "Mozarthaus“

Mozart died on the 5th December 1791

memorial at the graves of honour

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

received his musical education by his father

In 1787 he moved to Vienna

worked and studied with Mozart and Haydn

impairment in his hearing

1814 he presented his only opera "Fidelio“

around 1818 he went completely deaf

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

At the age of 8 he was sent to Vienna as a choirboy

Until 1750 he studied violin and keyboard

Oxford Uni. awarded him an honorary doctor of music

MusikvereinMusikverein

Vienna State Opera Vienna State Opera

VolksoperVolksoper

Musikverein

founded in 1812 by music loving people

5 concert halls

excellent acoustic

rich and imaginative decoration

up to 500 concerts per year

music lovers from all over the world

Volksoper

'Volksoper' is a major opera house

Initially, it was built as a conventional theater stage

In 1903 the first opera was staged there

since 1999, home to a contemporary dance ensemble

Vienna State Opera

one of the first buildings on the Ringstraße

built between 1861 - 1869

neo-romantic style

room for 2276 spectators

it's stage is one of the largest in Europe