Guten Tag!
Before Nashville, New Orleans, Chicago or New York City, there was Vienna, Austria, the original Music City. Vienna is the capital city of the Republic of Austria (pull out your globe, we're going to Eastern Europe!), and a hotspot for musicians, opera, and theatre since the 15th century.
The list of heavy-hitting composers who have either come from or worked in Vienna is impressive: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gustav Mahler, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and Johannes Brahms. The Classical style developed in Vienna. At the end of the Romantic era, in the early 1900s, Arnold Schonberg began his "Second Viennese School." Schonberg is now remembered by historians as spear-heading the atonal and twelve-tone serial music (to be explained another day, but you can safely assume that it doesn't sound anything like Brahms! {though Schonberg had a great respect for the music of Brahms})
Guest artists and composers to this Musical Oasis include: Carl Maria von Weber, Gioacchino Rossini, Antonio Vivaldi, Frederic Chopin, and Hector Berlioz.
Auf Wiedersehen!!
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