Music is in the Air

Austria is home to countless classical festivals many of which integrate the country’s gorgeous nature.

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Many of the country’s most renowned festivals are dedicated to its great composers: in 1976 Hermann Prey founded a small festival titled Schubertiade in the also small town of Hohenems. Over the years this festival has turned into the world’s most important Schubert event to which the composer’s devotees from all over the world return every year. The festival’s wonderful piano and lieder evenings draw some 45,000 visitors.
Schubertiade Spring and Fall


In 2008 the world’s most important Bach Festival will not be staged in Germany but in Austria – funnily enough in the city of Mozart. The fact that Salzburg is going to host this prestigious festival was anything but coincidence: the New Bach Society only grants festival licenses to those cities that have shown great efforts in keeping alive and honoring the legacy of this famous composer.
Bach Festival from 4 – 20 October 2008