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Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert

On May 30, 2013, the Vienna Plharmonic Orchestra gives a FREE concert at Schoenbrunn Palace. This year's program features works by Richard Wagner and Guiseppe Verdi.

30.05.2013 - Schoenbrunn Palace

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert

Once a year the Viennese Philharmonic Orchestra gives a FREE concert at Schoenbrunn Palace. This year's program features works by Richard Wagner and Guiseppe Verdi.

String Quartett: Talea Ensemble

The Talea Ensemble will present highlights of Austrian classical and contemporary music ranging from Franz Schubert to Olga Neuwirth. One of the up-and coming new ensembles in New York City, the Talea ensemble has recently performed works by Olga Neuwirth to high critical acclaim at the Bohemian National Hall in New York.

Friends of Mozart

Join us for a performance of the Claring Chamber Players, who will feature the Mozart Quartet for Oboe and Strings and music for varied instrumental ensemble by Michael Haydn, Franz Schubert as well as Mozart. The Claring Chamber Players, the resident ensemble of Friends of Mozart, encompasses musicians from New York's most prestigious orchestras and chamber groups and performs music from the Baroque era to the present day.

Special Events at the Pop-Up

The Austria Pop-Up store will be the venue for free concerts, gourmet food & wine events, film screenings and much more. Enjoy music by Austrian composers ranging from Mozart to Olga Neuwirth, journey back to imperial Vienna during our Sissi-Trilogy-Marathon, learn the true story behind THE SOUND OF MUSIC with Sam von Trapp, or sample a selection of the best Austrian wines at our “A Taste of Austria” event.

Catch a glimpse behind the scenes

Closely linked to the Vienna Philharmonic (it recruits its members from the opera’s orchestra) it is an opera house and an opera company. Being one of the busiest opera houses in the world it is quite common to find a different opera being produced each day of a week.

Innsbruck Festival of Early Music

In the Renaissance and Baroque, Innsbruck was one of Europe’s most important centers of music. The Innsbruck Festival, the oldest existing festival for early music, carries on this tradition each August.

Burgenland: Home of Legends

Meet Franz Liszt, Wunderkind, piano virtuoso, playboy and abbé, citizen of the world, and self-proclaimed “gypsy musician,” in the hills of Central Burgenland, Austria’s eastern-most region.

Wiener Mélange with Strauss Music

Coffeehouses in Vienna are your home away from home. Delicious coffee specialties, yummy pastries, all enjoyed in cozy seats and couches, paired with live piano music. Yes, read on! Many of Vienna’s best coffeehouses are your private concert hall, with live piano music, often with soloists -- and enjoyed all for free.

Conduct an orchestra

Ever wondered what it's like to conduct an orchestra? Wonder no more, thanks to a remarkable interactive feature at Vienna's beloved House of Music. For music lovers it's a dream within a dream, guiding your own all-start ensemble within the world capital of classical music.

Schubertiade

For over twenty-five years the Schubertiade has accomplished the seemingly impossible: retaining its intimacy while becoming the world’s top Schubert festival.

A day in Mozart’s footsteps

Imagine being five years old and performing in front of royalty all over Europe – this was just the beginning of a life lived at its fullest by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, lovingly called Wolferl.

Mozart’s Musical Game

Your name interpreted by...Mozart? Leave it to Haus der Musik, Vienna's endlessly creative discovery museum, to make it happen. In "NAMADEUS," visitors can play an interactive computer program based on the composer's famed musical game, KV 516f. The system can be applied to any combination of letters, allowing for great melodic variety -- and surely your first personalized Mozart tune.

The Cloud of Sound

Created to bridge the Ars Electronica Festival and the Anton Bruckner Festival this music event combines Bruckner’s music with highest-tech laser shows and spectacular fireworks.

Salzburg Festival

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 caliber fill the beautiful Alpine city with music and drama.

Grafenegg Music Festival

The combination of a historic castle, culinary pleasures, modern architecture, and world-class performances makes the Grafenegg Music Festival a delight for all senses.

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's 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.

15.08.2013 - 24.08.2013 - Attersee

Attersee classic

Classical music stars such as Thomas Hampson, Elina Garanca and many more are part of this festival.

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.

Once in Austria

Information on how to get from the airport to the city center or rail stations. How to get tickets to perfomances & shows and how to book a sight-seeing tour.

Gustav Mahler - his life

Gustav Mahler was born in July 1860 in Kilischt (today in the Czech Republic) has the second oldest of 14 children.

11.07.2013 - 24.08.2013 - Villach, Ossiach

Carinthian Summer

Festival in Ossiach and Villach, program ranging from church opera to contemporary music with artists from all over the world.

05.06.2013 - 09.06.2013 - Wörthersee

Wörthersee Classics

A celebration of sound in Austria's southern region Carinthia.

04.04.2013 - 18.04.2013 - Wachau

Wachau Gourmet Festival

The reputation of the world heritage site of Wachau Valley on the River Danube is not only due to the unique beauty of its landscape and cultural treasures, but also to the overall setting, which makes it a region of true indulgence.

10.05.2013 - 16.06.2013 - Vienna

Vienna Festival

This international avent-garde program features music, dance, performances and more.

14.03.2013 - 17.03.2013 - Langenlois

Loisiarte

Cultural spring festival under the theme: "Four Days - Four Points of the Compass".

Musicfestival Grafenegg

A classical music festival in a romantic setting. Grafenegg offers the historical backdrop for musical masterpieces from past centuries.

Schubertiade Schwarzenberg / Hohenems

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

Bregenz Festival

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.

17.05.2013 - 20.05.2013 - Melk

International Baroque Days at Melk Abbey

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

06.07.2013 - 24.08.2013 - Halbturn

Concerts at Halbturn castle

Inhale the air of a warm summer evening during a walk through the park and enjoy the beauty of the baroque castle of Halbturn: this is the ambience offered by the "Halbturner Schlosskonzerte" every season on Saturdays in July and August.

08.01.2013 - 28.06.2013 - Hall in Tirol

Music+

Galerie St. Barbara with their »musik+« concert series, presents a varied program of top notch music performances in Innsbruck and Hall.

05.09.2013 - 22.09.2013 - Eisenstadt

International Haydn Days

Most of Haydn's career was intertwined with the Esterházy family, and he spent nearly 50 years in their employment. The country seat of the family, Esterházy Palace is now home to the annual International Haydn Days.

17.05.2013 - 20.05.2013 - Salzburg

Salzburg Whitsun Festival

Prefacing Salzburg's main summer festival, the short Salzburg Whitsun Festival concentrates on baroque music. Since 2007 Italian maestro Riccardo Muti has brought a touch of his native Naples, together with the young musicians of the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra.

23.03.2013 - 01.04.2013 - Salzburg

Salzburg Easter Festival

Every Easter, the Berliner Philharmoniker decamps south to Salzburg for an opera production and three orchestral programmes at the Salzburg Easter Festival.

24.01.2013 - 03.02.2013 -

Mozart Week 2013

Salzburg celebrates the birthday of its most famous son during Mozart Week.

20.01.2013 - 24.03.2013 - Mürzzuschlag

International Brahms Music Festival

Johannes Brahms compositions are partly influenced by Haydn’s music.

15.09.2013 - 06.10.2013 - Linz

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"

Music in Austria

In Austria you can expect a first-class musical experience, whether it's a concert in the rooms of a Baroque palace, at the Opera House or at one of the many festivals.

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Founded in 1900, it is an indispensable cultural institution the the world capital of music.
The venues include the Musikverein, Konzerthaus, Theater an der Wien and many more.