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28  INTRODUCING A USTRIA

The Music of Austria Franz Schubert,
one of the earliest
Austria was – and remains to this day – a world- exponents of the
renowned centre for music. Musical life in present-day Romantic style,
Austria has typically been closely linked with that of is best-known for
Germany, as well as the Habsburg Empire. Composers his Lieder, or
songs. He also
belonging to the old Viennese school contributed to composed piano
the emergence of the Viennese Classical style, with music, chamber
Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the music and
German composer, Ludwig van Beethoven, its main symphonies.
proponents. Their work guided 19th-century composers
such as Franz Schubert, Johann Strauss, Anton Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bruckner, Hugo Wolf and Gustav Mahler.

Arnold Schönberg,
together with his
students, Alban Berg
and Anton Webern,
developed the Viennese
dodecaphonic school
after 1918. His best-
known work is the
sextet Verklärte Nacht.

Mozart’s sister, Maria
Anna, known as Nannerl

Joseph Haydn,
one of the Viennese
Classicists, was a court
composer to Count Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Esterházy. In 1790, he A child prodigy, Mozart had the gift of
moved to Vienna. His perfect pitch and an unrivalled memory.
works include over He achieved musical perfection with his
100 symphonies, symphonies, operas (The Marriage of
83 string quartets,
52 piano sonatas, Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute),
14 masses and many and his masses including the unfinished
other compositions. Requiem, which is shrouded in mystery.

1756–91
Wolfgang 1824–96 Anton 1860–1911
1715–77 Wolfgang
Georg Amadeus Amadeus Bruckner Gustav Mahler
Christoph Mozart Mozart 1819–95 Franz 1825–99 Johann 1874–1951 Arnold
Wagenseil von Suppé Strauss (son) Schönberg
1700 1725 1750 1775 1800 1825 1850 1875
1739–99 Karl Ditters 1852–95 1874–1949
von Dittersdorf 1791–1857 1804–49 Johann Josef Edmund Eysler
Carl Czerny Strauss (father) Schrammel
1732–1809 Joseph Haydn
1860–1903
1797–1828 Franz Schubert 1801–43 Joseph Lanner Hugo Wolf
Joseph Haydn

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