Famous Austrians

Wolf, Hugo (1860 - 1903)

Hugo Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in technique.

Webern, Anton von (1883 - 1945)

Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor. As a student and follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known exponents of the twelve-tone technique. In addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of pitch, rhythm and dynamics were formative in the musical technique later known as total serialism.

Wagner, Otto (1841-1918)

Otto Koloman Wagner was an Austrian architect and urban planner. He is known for his lasting impact on the appearance of his home town Vienna, to which he contributed many landmarks.

Turrini, Peter (born 1944)

Peter Turrini is an Austrian leftist playwright and was born in Carinthia. He has been writing since 1971, when his play Rozznjogd premiered at the Volkstheater, Vienna. Turrini has written plays, screenplays, poems, and essays.

Suppé, Franz von (1819 - 1895)

Franz von Suppé or Francesco Suppé Demelli was an Austrian composer of light operas. He was composer and conductor of the Romantic period and is notable for his four dozen operettas.

Strauß, Johann (1825 - 1899)

Johann Strauss II was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as "The Waltz King.

Strauß, Johann - Father (1804 - 1849)

Johann Strauss I was born in Vienna, was an Austrian Romantic composer and was famous for his waltzes. His most famous piece is the Radetzky March (named after Joseph Radetzky von Radetz), while his most famous waltz is probably the Lorelei Rheinklänge, Op. 154.

Stolz, Robert (1880 - 1975)

Robert Elisabeth Stolz was an Austrian conductor and songwriter as well as a composer of operettas and film music.

Schubert, Franz (1797 - 1828)

Franz Schubert was an vienniese composer, who composed his first pieces in his childhood.

Schönberg, Arnold (1874 - 1951)

Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer and painter, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School.

Musil, Robert (1880 - 1942)

Robert Musil was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities is one of the most important modernist novels.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 - 1791)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- one of the greatest composer of all times. He created his own distinctive style with blending traditional and contemporary together.

Mahler, Gustav (1860 - 1911)

Gustav Mahler was born into a poor Jewish family in the town of Kalište in Bohemia on 7th July 1860. Mahler's considerable musical talents, which he employed both as composer and conductor, were surpassed only by his ambition.

Lehár, Franz (1870 - 1948)

Franz Lehár was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is known for his operettas of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe).

Lavant, Christine (1915 - 1973)

Christine Lavant was born in Carinthia and was an Austrian poet and novelist. Lavant made her breakthrough with her collection of poems "The Beggar's Bowl" in 1956.

Kolig, Anton (1886 - 1950)

Anton Kolig was born in Nötsch im Gailtal and was an Austrian expressionist painter. He painted drawins which spread full of power and tenderness.

Kogelnik, Kiki (1935 - 1997)

Kiki Kogelnik was an Austrian painter, sculptor and printmaker. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, moved to New York in 1961 and is considered as Austria's most important Pop-related artist.

Bachmann, Ingeborg (1926 - 1973)

Berg, Alban (1885 - 1935)

Berg, Werner (1904 - 1981)

Bruckner, Anton (1824 - 1896)

Einem, Gottfried von (1918 - 1996)

Freud, Sigmund (1856 - 1939)

Handke, Peter (born 1942)

Haydn, Joseph (1732 - 1809)

Hundertwasser, Friedensreich (1928 - 2000)

Kálmán, Emmerich (1882 - 1953)

Kauffmann, Angelika (1741 - 1807)