Austria: Land of Music – Federal Press Service – 1973 – Blanda

**Austria: Land of Music**: Contents:

1) Austrian Music.

Origins and requirements.
The testimony of history.
Renaissance masters.
Music in the baroque era.
Composers on the imperial throne.
Der liebe Augustin.
The phenomenon of the Viennese classical era.
Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert.
Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner and Hugo Wolf.
Johann Strauss, the waltz-king.
Operetta.
From Gustav Mahler to Arnonld Schonberg.
Austria remained a great power in the musical world.
Richard Strauss.
The neo-romantics.
Austria is still the land of music.

2) Music in the Austrian provinces.

Burgenland.
Carinthia.
Lower Austria.
Upper Austria.
Salzburg.
Styria.
Tyrol.
Vorarlberg.
Vienna.

3) Austrian Musical Life.

The Vienna Opera house.
The Theater an der Wien.
The Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.
The Vienna Konzerthaus.
The Hofburg "Chapel Rayal" and the vienna boys choir.
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Vienna Symphony Orchestra, The "Tonkunstler", and others.
Celebrated conductors.
Choirs.
The teaching of music.
Austria's more important annual festivals of music.
Organisations for the promotion of contemporary music.
Index.