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"Dudeln" and "Schrammelmusik"

The best things about Vienna seem to come from somewhere else. For instance, the ‘Wiener Schnitzel’ actually comes from Milan, and the same goes for such authentically Viennese forms of music as “Dudeln” (the local name for yodelling) and "Schrammelmusik”, which have also “migrated” here.

Sound of Music Package

Indulge your enthusiasm for the Sound of Music and visit the must-see sights, scenery and cities of Tirol with this great-value 8-day package offered by Leger Holidays.

Lake Constance in Vorarlberg

The region of Bodensee-Vorarlberg hosts dozens of music and art festivals, including the renowned Bregenz Festival on Lake Constance with its floating stage.

Cultural Highlights

There are countless highlights that await culture lovers visiting Vorarlberg. Lake Constance provides a perfect backdrop for the arts whilst the region of the Bregenzerwald is famous for its contemporary architecture.

City Special

Austria is your desination for city breaks with a twist: Salzburg presents its Baroque face, Graz is a real paradise for foodies and Innsbruck couples sightseeing with outdoor adventure.

16.09.2012 - 18.09.2012

FM4 Frequency Festival

The Frequency Festival, organised by radio station FM4, is one of Austria’s largest music festivals. With previous locations in Vienna, Salzburg, and now in St.Pölten, some of the names to have appeared – Foo Fighters, The Kooks, The Chemical Brothers and Kaiser Chiefs.

Innsbruck Festival of Early Music

The Innsbruck Festival of Early Music is a must for all music lovers visiting Innsbruck in August.

Poolbar Festival Feldkirch

Over six weeks in July and August some 20,000 visitors descend upon Feldkirch for one of Europe's hottest music and culture festivals. Set within an old indoor swimming pool complex, come revel in a real party atmosphere where music, art, fashion and architecture colly intermix.

Cattle Drive & Village Fair

The farmer´s market with cattle procession and parish fair is the most important festival of the year in Reith. With live music and entertainment, you can admire original wood carving, basket weaving and schnapps distilling, plus get a taste of local products such as bacon, fresh dark bread and homemade butter.

Gauder Fest Tirol

Austria’s largest spring & folk festival, the Gauder Fest, is held every year at the end of April / beginning of May. Visitors can look forward to a weekend of Tirolean traditions and entertainment. Highlight is the traditional parade, displaying the great variety of national costumes from across Tirol, as well as brass bands and horse-drawn floats and carriages.

Summer in Austria

Welcome to our virtual photo exhibition of Summer in Austria: Fresh Sights and Enchanting Surprises. With audio podcasts and story cards for each picture, prepare to be enchanted by Austria's Hidden Treasures.

Alpbach Village Festival

Should you be in the Alpbachtal at the beginning of July then be sure to visit the annual Alpbach Village Festival. With fantastic bands and concerts, a great children's programme, delicious regional food and various fun contests such as cow milking and wood sawing, there is no better way to discover this wonderful region.

Feldkirch Festival

The annual Feldkirch Festival, headed by Phillipe Arnaud, takes place 06. - 17.06., playing early and modern music, and focusing on a different country each year. In 2012, the spotlight is on Finland and Norway.

Bregenz Festival

The Bregenz Festival brings together the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, performers, and directors to produce the finest in modern entertainment. A hi-tech floating stage on Lake Constance has become a platform for some of the world’s most distinguished operas, such as the 2012 production of ‘André Chénier’.

Styriarte 2012

The Styriarte Festival in Graz encourages a rediscovery of long-lost variations of our musical heritage, and mirrors today’s wealth of exciting approaches to Early Music and music between the Middle Ages and Romanticism. The 2012 festival will be held from 24th June - 25th July.

Schubertiade Packages Bregenzerwald

The most celebrated series of events in the Bregenzerwald’s cultural calendar is the internationally renowned Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. In its unique way, the rural atmosphere harmonises with the music of Schubert and his contemporaries. Book a complete package for this year's event, including accommodation, concert tickets and shuttle bus.

Schubertiade Schwarzenberg / Hohenems

For over 25 years the Schubertiade Festival has been mastering the seemingly impossible: To maintain intimacy, yet become the most important Schubert festival in the world.

Austria's City Life

From Vienna's coffee house culture to music festivals with the latest line-up, Austria's cities have plenty to offer.

Meet the City Folk

Combining the old, the new and the culinary. World-famous cities, sights and sounds for all. Thrilling Imperial crossroads in a deep valley. Meet the people who are lucky enough to live in Austria's top cities.

Austria's Passion for Tradition and Nature

From yodelling in Vienna to birdwatching at the national park Neusiedlersee.

Franz Liszt - the European

Franz Liszt’s musical career took him to various European countries that were to influence his work. His open-mindedness and cosmopolitan outlook made him a “true” European. It is thus no wonder that today he remains a prominent figure in numerous countries in different ways.

The Life of a Composer

Of all classical composers, Franz Liszt was the most colourful: an eccentric and heartthrob, a virtuoso pianist, an intellectual, cosmopolitan and globetrotter. And above all, he composed incessantly. His musical oeuvre comprises 123 piano works, 77 lieder, 25 orchestral works, 65 sacred & 28 secular choral pieces, and numerous arrangements and compositions for organ and other instruments.

Musical visionary

Franz Liszt is regarded as the creator of an entirely new genre of piano music and a groundbreaking compositional style. As a pianist, as well, he broke with all the conventions of the time, often drawing on one or more themes from familiar operas and using them as the basis for brilliant piano fantasies.

Franz Liszt: © lisztomania

The province of Burgenland celebrates the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt in 2011 with outstanding concerts, exhibitions, and special projects focusing on the enormous oeuvre of the composer and conductor.

Joseph Haydn: Life and Works

Austrian composer Joseph Haydn was a much loved person, esteemed by his contemporaries, diligent, humorous, affable, and a straight shooter who was not spoiled by his steep climb from humble conditions into the highest social circles.

Franz Liszt - 200th Anniversary in 2011

Franz Liszt is regarded as the creator of an entirely new genre of piano music and a groundbreaking compositional style. Guided by his vision of transporting his ideas out into the world, Liszt soon became a cosmopolitan due to his extensive concert tours throughout all of Europe, dazzling audiences with his unique performance style and virtuosity.

Vienna's Glorious Ball Season

Ever dreamed about dancing the waltz at one of Vienna's many famous balls? With hundreds to choose from, here are the highlights of the Viennese Ball Season 2011/2012.

06.06.2012 - 17.06.2012

Feldkirch Festival

Any music-lover's delight, the Feldkirch Festival has been running since 2007. Emphasizing contemporary music of the 20th and 21st Century and geared to contact the young audiences of tomorrow, the 2012 focus will be on Scandinavian music.

05.07.2012 - 11.07.2012

Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus

This chamber music festival which was named one of the world's two best festivals by the New York Times and classified as European cultural heritage transforms the small town in central Burgenland into the hub of chamber music for two weeks every year.

22.03.2012 - 25.03.2012

Loisiarte

Loisiarte is the annual cultural spring festival in Langenlois. After a successful as ever 2011 event, the 2012 festival will be held from 22nd until 25th March

20.04.2012 - 22.04.2012

Literature & Wine

This international festival is an annual encounter of readings, music and locally grown fine wines. The evening events at Goettweig Abbey are accompanied by modern Viennese music.

09.09.2012 - 03.10.2012

Bruckner Festival

The festival features international musicians performing works by and from the time of Anton Bruckner. The festival opens with a "classical cloud of sound".

27.07.2012 - 15.08.2012

Danube Festival

Ancient music in historic venues along the beautiful banks of the Danube.

Festivals For All Senses

Austria’s diverse cultural offerings include over 200 festivals, stretching from world scale events to small regional gatherings. Many of them make use of Austria’s beautiful surroundings, and most of them offer an outstanding culinary menu to accompany the cultural experience.

A Vibrant Cultural Scene

Be inspired by Antony Gormley's unique landscape installation in the mountains of Vorarlberg, take your pick of over 200 international and regional festivals, or visit one of the world's most important and stunning museum collections. Experience the diversity of Austria's art and culture.

24.11.2011 - 11.12.2011

International Ski Countdown

One of Austria's most popular resorts, Obertauern is a winter hotspot for skiing and snowboarding. The International Ski Countdown celebrates the new ski season with a gigantic snow-bar, fireworks, an open-air festival and a large disco.

Graz, Salzburg and Innsbruck

Austrian cities offer more than just guidebook sights. Gourmet Graz, romantic Salzburg, and invigorating Innsbruck provide new experiences at just the right pace.

06.07.2012 - 08.07.2012

Schrammel.Klang.Festival

Festival in Litschau on Lake Herrensee. Music and theatre combined with nature!

02.08.2012 - 12.08.2012

J:Opera

Festival summer in Jennersdorf, Burgenland, with opera, children's opera and exhibition.

25.05.2012 - 27.05.2012

INNtöne Festival

An annual jazz festival with a focus on a farm off the beaten track in Upper Austria: Diersbach.

28.04.2012 - 05.05.2012

Donau Festival

An avant-garde pop festival in Krems - inmidst Austria's wine country - featuring music, performance and installations.

19.04.2012 - 23.05.2012

Wean Hean Song Festival

An annual festival of Viennese song and music with the aim of positioning it in novel contexts, performing in unexpected venues and inviting representatives of other styles - jazz and contemporary music, for example - to risk a fresh look at the Viennese "trad".

16.05.2012 - 20.05.2012

springfestival

Throughout springfestival Graz's most unique spots are transformed into venues for electronic music and art, bringing together acclaimed live acts, DJ supremos, hip bands and emerging artists.

16.06.2012 - 03.09.2012

Finkenstein Castle Arena

Varied programme in front of the magnificent backdrop of Finkenstein Castle in Carinthia

23.10.2012 - 04.11.2012

Salzburg Jazz-Herbst

This is the 17th edition of this musical delight that brings international and Austrian jazz stars to the Salzburg stages.

05.07.2012 - 29.07.2012

Tyrolean Festival Erl

Since 1998, a festival with international standards, mainly with visitors from German-speaking areas, but also from other parts of Europe or even the USA and Japan. The Tyrolean Festival Erl is not just any music festival.

Bregenzer Festspiele

Bregenz is different. An opera festival with two stages: a traditional opera house, home to less-known operas, and an open-air lakeside stage, where productions are held in the most spectacular fashion.

Musikfestival Grafenegg

A Classical Music Festival in a romantic setting. Grafenegg offers the historical backdrop for musical masterpieces from past centuries.

Carinthian Summer

A highly attractive combination of culture and nature is offered by the Carintischer Sommer music festival in the area surrounding Carinthia's Ossiach Lake each year.

Jazzfestival Saalfelden

The mountain range of the Steinernes Meer, lush green meadows and a lake form the picturesque backdrop of Europe's most important festival of contemporary jazz.

Wiener Festwochen

This festival is a firmly-established high-point of the Vienna cultural calender, offering exciting theatre productions as well as a great number of orchestra concerts, recitals and chamber music performances. The Wiener Festwochen 2011 are set to be even more successful than the 2010 event, which saw an incredible attendance of 201.242 guests.

Salzburger Festspiele

First held in 1920, the Salzburg Festival is one of the cultural highlights of the year. Alongside the regular residency of the Vienna Philharmonic, musicians and ensembles of the highest calibre fill the beautiful Alpine city with music and drama.

Rolling Oldies

Be sure not to miss the ‘Rolling Oldies’ Music Festival in Reith im Alpbachtal from 17th - 20th May 2012. With 3 stages and live music from the 50ies, 60ies and 70ies, this truly is Austria's greatest oldies party.

25.05.2012 - 28.05.2012

International Baroque Days at Melk Abbey

This event takes place at one of Austria's most breathtaking abbeys, with sweeping views of the Danube river and nestled right within Austria's wine country.

24.06.2012 - 25.07.2012

Styriarte 2012

The Styriarte Festival encourages a rediscovery of long-lost variations of our musical heritage, and mirrors today’s wealth of exciting approaches to Early Music and music between the Middle Ages and Romanticism.

06.09.2012 - 16.09.2012

International Haydn Festival

Most of Haydn's career was intertwined with the Esterhazy family and he spent nearly 50 years in their employment. The country seat of the family, Esterhazy Palace, is now home to the annual International Haydn Days. Motto of the 24th festival is "Haydn & Italy".

25.05.2012 - 28.05.2012

Salzburg Whitsun Festival

Prefacing Salzburg's main summer festival, the Salzburg Whitsun Festival concentrates on baroque music.

31.03.2012 - 09.04.2012

Salzburg Easter Festival

Every year the Salzburg Easter Festival offers an international audience the unique opportunity of experiencing the world-class Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, as part of one of the most renowned classical music festivals in the world.

Austria's Top Events

Austria and culture are an inseparable unit, and the cultural programme is accordingly packed to the brim. Here is a selection of this year's top events that should undoubtedly not be missed when visiting Austria.

05.09.2012 - 09.09.2012

International Brahms Music Festival

Dedicated to Johannes Brahms and Franz Schubert, the two icons of chamber-music, the Altenberg Trio, the Bennewitz Quartett and a top-class team of singers and renowned solists will play for you in Mürzzuschlag.

27.01.2012 - 22.10.2012

Liszt Festival Raiding

Franz Liszt was one of the most dazzling musical personalities of the Romantic era and the composer of a gigantic oeuvre. Every year his birthplace of Raiding in Burgenland celebrates Liszt's immense talent with a number of tributes.

31.03.2012 - 08.04.2012

Sounds of Easter

Concert and opera highlights form OsterKlang 2012 at Vienna's Theater an der Wien.

Take a Sound of Music Tour in Salzburg

Salzburg may be home to Mozart and all things baroque, but for an astounding 70% of overseas visitors The Sound of Music remains the primary reason for travel to the city.

Musical Tours the UK

Andrew Lloyd Webber's West End London production of The Sound of Music has earned impressive reviews from both theater goers and critics right from its opening night on 15th November 2006 at London's Palladium. Now fans outside of London have their chance to see this beloved musical as the production continues its UK tour.

Stay Overnight at the 'Von Trapps'

A must-stay for all Sound of Music fans! The former Salzburg home of the real Von Trapp family has opened its doors for overnight stays.

Berg, Alban (1885 - 1935)

Bruckner, Anton (1824 - 1896)

Einem, Gottfried von (1918 - 1996)

Haydn, Joseph (1732 - 1809)

Kálmán, Emmerich (1882 - 1953)

Lehár, Franz (1870 - 1948)

Mahler, Gustav (1860 - 1911)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 - 1791)

Schönberg, Arnold (1874 - 1951)

Schubert, Franz (1797 - 1828)

Strauß, Johann - Father (1804 - 1849)

Strauß, Johann (1825 - 1899)

Suppé, Franz von (1819 - 1895)

Webern, Anton von (1883 - 1945)

Wolf, Hugo (1860 - 1903)

Famous Austrians

Who doesn't know them, Austria's 'great' sons and daughters? They have left their mark all across the centuries in politics, art, science and sport. Find out which famous personalities originated from the country at the heart of Europe, or chose it as the center of their life and creative work.

Vienna Boys' Choir

The Vienna Boys' Choir is one of the oldest boys' choirs in the world. For nearly five hundred years it has been one of the enduring symbols of Austria and Vienna.

Haydn's Travels Through Austria

To Mozart he was a fatherly friend, and Beethoven was his most famous student. Numerous sites in Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland and Sopron attest to the life of the then and now so popular Austrian composer Joseph Haydn.

From Choirboy to Conductor

Joseph Haydn was born on March 31st, 1732, in Rohrau (Lower Austria), the second of twelve children of a coach-builder and a cook. His musical talent already became clear at a very early age.

In the Services of Esterházy

In 1761 Haydn made a lucky career move: he entered the services of the rich Esterházy family in Eisenstadt.

A Star in Great Britain

In 1790 Prince Nikolaus I. died. His successor showed no interest in music and within a few days disbanded the orchestra and choir and granted Haydn an annual pension.

Move to Vienna and World Renown

Haydn was laid to rest in Vienna where his last public appearance took place. One of the guests: Ludwig van Beethoven.

Burgenland: The Stations of his Life

The Burgenland region offers visitors a true trail of stations of Haydn's life. Not to be missed are the Haydn House and herb garden, the famous Bergkirche, and Haydn's final resting place.

Burgenland: The Stations of his Work

Joseph Haydn had strong connections with Eisenstadt. The famous master composer lived and worked in this city as Hofkapellmeister under Esterházy patronage.

Vienna: Haydn at every Step

Haydn House, Mozart House and St. Stephen’s Cathedral are some of the original venues in Vienna. Visit Haydn’s memorial in Mariahilfer Straße and see – or even hear! – Haydn at the historic Anker Clock!

Vienna: Haydn for Experts

Attentive Vienna visitors will find traces of the great composer Joseph Haydn across the city: from the Esterházy Palace to the memorial of Empress Maria Theresia.

Lower Austria: Haydn’s Birthplace in Rohrau

Joseph Haydn’s birthplace is located in Rohrau, a town about ten kilometers to the south of Hainburg on the border between Lower Austria and Burgenland.

Sopron: Haydn as Regular Guest

On his way from Eisenstadt to Eszterháza, Count Estherházy’s Hungarian version of Versailles palace, Count Nikolaus often stopped over in Sopron. Traveling with him was his Kapellmeister Joseph Haydn.

Vienna: Exhibitions

There are several exhibitions in Vienna spotlighting the life and works of one of the most prominent composers of the classical period. Some of these exhibitions are staged at original Haydn venues.

The Oeuvre of the Master

Haydn is traditionally considered the “Father" of the classical symphony and string quartet, and an innovator in the composition of piano sonatas and piano trios.

Art in Salzburg

Salzburg is not only devoted to the traditional. A lively art and culture scene with a plethora of galleries and event venues embraces the avant-garde, the unconventional and the future-oriented.

Haus der Musik - Vienna

Haus der Musik is a modern interactive experimental museum in the historic city center of Vienna, where the Vienna Philharmonic was founded. Infotainment, Edutainment and Entertainment – these are the three catchwords characterizing the Haus der Musik, offering the visitor a lively introduction to the history of Austria’s great composers.