Essential listing on music, art and cultural tours

Music is in the air - all over the world Austria enjoys a reputation as the “Land of music”. The classical tradition has always been carefully cultivated here – and it still lives on today.

Vienna, for example, was home to some of the most important composers in music history, such as Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert or Gustav Mahler.

The “Vienna Boy's Choir” and the Vienna Philharmonic also call Austria's capital home. The world's oldest boy group performs some 300 concerts each year all over the world and the New Year’s Concert of the Philharmonic orchestra gets over a billion people worldwide waltzing into the New Year.

But it is not all about Vienna, there is - in fact an astonishing array of cultural highlights to be found throughout Austria.

Our cultural recommondations:

• Enjoy impressive backdrops at the Salzburg Festival
• Celebrate Franz Liszt at the Lisztomania
• Be part of the unparalleled blend of culture, architecture and nature at the Grafenegg Music Festival
• Experience Bregenz’s famous floating stage
• Be one of more than 30.000 visitors at the most renowned Schubert festival "Schubertiade" in Hohenems
• Watch one of the thrilling dance performances at the Impulstanz Festival
• Feel the fascination of the opera at the imposing open-air stage in St. Margarethen in Burgenland

Discover more Austrian culture in our Destination Austria Holiday Journal

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