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Vienna, the City of Music

Welcome to the world’s music capital! More famous composers have lived here than in any other city – in Vienna, music is literally in the air: Waltzes and operettas have their home here, and so do musicals "made in Vienna," which have conquered international audiences.

The city’s concert halls and stages offer the whole range from classical to progressive sounds with end-to-end festivals the whole year through. Opera fans will meet international stars here and jazz lovers will find a pulsating jazz scene. Pop and rock concerts provide unforgettable live music experiences.

5 places for music lovers in Vienna | VIENNA/NOW Top Picks

VIDEO: In this episode of VIENNA/NOW Top Picks, we show you our Top 5 places for music lovers in the city. Music is literally in the air in...

Violin player

Great sounds in Vienna

Welcome to the world’s music capital! More famous composers have lived here than in any other city – in Vienna, music is literally in the...

House of Music. The Sound Museum

House of Music

Vienna, the city of music, there is also a place where you will be "all ears."

Vienna Boys’ Choir

Vienna Boys' Choir

They thrill the concert-going public around the world, are described as Vienna’s youngest ambassadors, and make music with world class musicians:...

New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein

Vienna Philharmonic

It is one of the best orchestras in the world; many think it is the best: the Vienna Philharmonic. It acts as ambassador of Viennese music around...

Wiener Konzerthaus

Wiener Symphoniker

It is the most productive orchestra in the world and a specialist in Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Richard Strauss – with performances in the...

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien)

RSO ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

It is Austria's most versatile orchestra. It masters rarities of the 18th century as equally as contemporary premiere performances. The orchestra...

Music for all the senses

Every night great things happen on around 120 stages in the capital, and each year around 15,000 music events cover just about every genre...

DJ on the dancefloor

Electronic sounds

Not only do fans of the waltz get their musical money’s worth in Vienna. Lovers of electronic sounds find plenty of opportunity to listen in and...

Choristers running in the park

World-famous and always hungry

At the grand old age of over 520, the Vienna Boys Choir is the oldest boy band in the world. And with 300 performances a year, it is also the...

Neuschnee, Festival wean hean 2014

The Wienerlied

Vienna is a city with its own musical genre - the Wienerlied. Created around 1800, it is cultivated in every variety today, from traditional to...

Sychronstage Vienna

Vienna sounds good

"Jö schau!" Did you know that there are more than 3,000 songs about Vienna? Hardly any other city has been sung about as often as "Ganz Wien"...

Wolfgang Becker and Franz Risavy, carpenters at the Wiener Konzerthaus, lift a bench in the Great Hall

Carpenter twins at the Konzerthaus

We meet two Viennese originals at the Wiener Konzerthaus. Not on the stage, however, but behind it: Wolfgang Becker and Franz Risavy, the...

People in a concert

Video: Vienna. Capital of Music

Top training, excellent handicraft, perfect concert halls and more... What the world capital of music offers and why it even thrills Hollywood.

Exhibition room in the Mozarthaus

Mozarthaus Vienna

Though Mozart lived at a dozen different addresses in Vienna, the only apartment that has survived to this day is at Domgasse number 5. The...

Mozart Memorial Burggarten

Mozart in Vienna

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the most famous musical genius of all time. Between the baroque era and the age of revolution, the prodigy spent his...

Beethoven monument

Beethoven in Vienna

Vienna was the focal point of Ludwig van Beethoven's life for more than 35 years. The traces of the composer are manifold: from a large Beethoven...

Musicstore Laimer

Shopping for sheet music

Play what you’ve heard at a concert yourself: music fans will find a wide range of professional specialist stores selling sheet music in Vienna.

mdw Campus Festival

Stars of tomorrow at the universities of music

The mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) is one of the world's leading...

Arnold Schönberg, teaching, Los Angeles, 1940ies

Schönberg in Vienna

The Arnold Schönberg Center manages the estate of the founder of twelve-tone music and is a vibrant cultural center. An area is also dedicated to...

Apartment of Johann Strauss at Praterstrasse, green room

Musicians' residences of bygone days

In no other city in the world have so many world-renowned musicians and composers made their home. Accordingly, there are numerous occasions to...

All Ears on: Alexa & Google Home; Skill "Beethoven's Vienna" EN

Meet Beethoven with Alexa and Google Home

Follow in the footsteps of one of the greatest musical geniuses of all time. Learn more about Beethoven’s personal story and his connection to...

String Trio in the Gläserner Saal ("Glassy Hall") of Musikverein

Vienna – the City of Music

Learn about the music city of Vienna on two days: its three opera houses, Musikverein and Konzerthaus and the Mozarthaus Vienna. There's piano...

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Ticket purchases

Read on to find out how to get tickets to the events you’d like to attend during your time in Vienna. From opera to pop concert, musical to...