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Classical MusicClassical Music
Austrian traditional music:
YodelYodel
LändlerLändler
othersothers
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
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