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Music
 On this page you can find a selection of the most famous and renowned Austrian musicians, composers and conductors in alphabetical order. The icons beneath the descriptions show the general music style as well as their specializations:
classical music
modern music
composer
singer
sound performer / DJ
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736 - 1809)
He was a musician and music theorist. In 1792 he was appointed
"Kapellmeister" at the St.Stephan's cathedral. Furthermore, he became
the teacher of Ludwig van Beethoven.
August Wilhelm Ambros (1816 - 1876)
Although he was of Czech descent, he spent most of his life in Vienna. As a composer and music historian he became famous as the author of the magnum opus "History of Music" in the 1860s.
Wolfgang Ambros (1952)
Wolfgang Ambros is a singer and song-writer. His popularity is based on the creation of a new music genre "Austropop". His most famous songs are "Da Hofer" and "Schi foan".
Paul Badura-Skoda (1927)
In 1947 he won the first prize at the Austrian Music Competition. He is seen as one of the best pianists of our time.
Alban Berg (1885 - 1935)
Alban Berg was a famous Austrian composer at the beginning of the 20th century. He was a member of the Second Viennese School.
Walter Berry (1929 - 2000)
Walter Berry was an opera singer. He sang famous roles like Papageno in Mozart's "Zauberfloete".
Karl Boehm (1894 - 1981)
Karl Boehm was an Austrian conductor. His greatest contribution to the world of music was performing the operas of his friend Richard Strauss for the first time.
Norbert Brainin (1923 - 2005)
Norbert Brainin was the first violinist of the famous Amadeus Quartet. Since he was of Jewish origin, he had to flee from Austria during the Second World War. With his teacher Max Rostal and two Jewish musician friends he created the Amadeus quartet in 1947, which became a highly praised quartet and earned a lot of awards.
Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896)
Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer. He is significant for the final stage of the Austrian Romanticism. The city of Linz therefore dedicated its concert house to is name (Bruckner Haus).
Karl Czerny (1791 - 1857)
Karl Czerny was an Austrian composer, pianist and teacher. He was the teacher of Franz Liszt and wrote the book of etudes for the piano.
Friedrich Cerha (1926)
He was an conductor and composer, who became famous for his interpretations of the works of the Second Viennese School.
Anton Diabelli (1781 - 1858)
Diabelli was an Austrian music publisher and composer. He earned his fame through Beethoven's writing "Diabelli Variation", which centers on the basis of his waltz.
Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739 - 1799)
Karl Ditters was a renowned composer. Although his works are no longer performed at this time, he nevertheless remains well-known due to his earlier work.
Nico Dostal (1895 - 1981)
Dostal was an Austrian composer. His pieces centered on classical music, film music and church music.
Gottfried von Einem (1918 - 1996)
Gottfried was an composer, who created innovative classical music inluenced by jazz.
Karlheinz Essl (1960)
Essl is an Austrian sound performer, who specializes in Improvisation.
Falco (1957 - 1998)
Johann Hoelzl may be regarded as one of Austria's most famous music stars. In 1986 his song "Rock me Amadeus" brought him the number 1 place in the US charts. He sold over 60 Million copies of his CDs worldwide. He was killed in a car accident in the Dominican Republik. Among his most famous songs gaining international popularity, were "Der Kommissar", "Egoist", "Jeannie", "Rock me Amadeus", and "Out of the Dark".
Rainhard Fendrich (1955)
Fendrich is a musician and actor. He was part in many international musicals, which brought their famous shows to the Austrian theaters. One of his most outstanding songs is considered - "I am from Austria".
Christian Fennesz (1962)
Fennesz is a musician, who uses electronic guitars and notebooks to create modern compositions.
Johann Fux (1660 - 1741)
Fux was an Austrian composer, who is most famous for his book "Gradus as Parnassum".
Bernhard Gal (1971)
Gal creates modern music combined with sound, light and art.
Ernest Gold (1921 - 1999)
Gold composed film music for about a 100 movies in total, which gained him the nomination for the Golden Globe and the Academy Awards serval times in a row. For the movies "On the beach" and "Exodus" he had gained both awards by the end of his career.
Hubert von Goisern (1952)
He is an Austrian musician, who is reputated for mixing traditional Alpine songs with jazz. In the course of his musical and artistic development his composition and music matured from mainstream-pop to very experimental music including elements of jazz, rock, and evn taditional African sounds and songs.
Franz Gruber (1787 - 1863)
Together with Josef Mohr, this Austrian composer created the famous Christmas song "Silent night, Holy night."
Heinz Karl Gruber (1943)
He is a leading composer in the Third Viennese School.
Friedrich Gulda (1930 - 2000)
Gulda, an Austrian pianist, was most famous for his unique Beethoven interpretation.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929)
Harnoncourt was a world-famous and award-winning conductor and maestro. Among other famous events he conducted the internationally most renowned Neujahrskonzert (new year's concert) in 2001 and 2003.
Josef Matthias Hauer (1883 - 1959)
Hauer was an Austrian composer, who invented a new way of composing by incorporating all 12 notes.
Joseph Haydn ( 1732 - 1809)
Joseph Haydn belongs into the group of the most famous classical music composers of the world. Among his great works is the German national anthem. Haydn wrote it for the Austrian emperor's birthday.
Michael Haydn (1737 - 1806)
Michael was Joseph Haydn's younger brother, who became a composer as well.
Roman Hofstetter (1742-1815)
Hofstetter was a monk, who supposedly composed Haydn's opus 3.
Udo Jurgens (1934)
After winning the Eurovision contest for Austria, Jürgens gained a world-wide repuation. He has written more than 900 songs until today and is still performing.
Walter Jurmann (1903 - 1971)
At the beginning of the Second World War Walter emigrated to the USA, where he was promised a contract in Hollywood. He wrote famous songs such as "San Francisco" and "The show must go on".
Franz Kalchmair (1939)
Kalchmair is an internationally acknowledged opera singer.
Herbert von Karajan (1908 - 1989)
Herbert von Karajan was a very famous conductor, who was described by the New York Times as one of the most powerful figures in classic music. He was renowned and sometimes feared for his temperament, which sometimes expressed itself in very fast conducting
Erich Kleiber (1890 - 1956) and Carlos Kleiber (1930- 2004)
Father and son were both famous conductors.
Fritz Kreisler (1875 - 1962)
Kreisler was a famous violinistand composer, who emigrated to the USA in the cause of the Second World War.
Ernst Krenek (1900 - 1991)
Ernst was a renowned composer, who even attempted to finish Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 10. During the Second World War period his music was prohibited and he had to emigrate to the United States.
Gyoegry Ligeti (1923 - 2006)
Born in Romania as a Jew Ligeti survived the concentration camp. When faced with the Soviet Army he decided to obtain the Austrian citizenship. He is famous for the film music in works like "2001: A Space Odyssey", "The Shining" and "Eyes Wide Shut".
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Franz Liszt was born in the Kingdom of Hungary, a part of the Austrian Empire. He belongs to the mostfamous composers of the world.
Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
Mahler was a famous conductor and composer. However, he first gained popularity after his death.
Felix Motl (1856 - 1911)
In his lifetime Motl was seen as the most ingenious conductor.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Mozart is seen as the most famous Austrian composer. Many learned about him through the Movie "Amadeus". Mozart was a "wunderkind", which means that he composed already in his earliest years. His most famous works include: "Die kleine Nachtmusik" and operas such as "DonGiovanni" and "Die Zauberfloete". His last and unfinished work "Requiem" remains one of the most famous pieces in classical music in the world.
Opus
Opus is an Austrian band, which was formed in 1973, and topped the charts all over the world with the song "Life is Life".
Emil von Reznicek (1860 - 1945)
An Austrian composer, who became famous with the opera "Donna Diana".
Franz Schmidt (1874 - 1939)
Schmidt was an Austrian composer, whose reputation was badly damaged, since he was believed to have joined the Nazis. His friend Oskar Alder denied this.
Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, who invented the "developing variation" and wrote some of the most influential music theory books. Due to his Jewish descent, he was forced to leave Austria and consequently emigrated to the United States.
Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Franz Schubert is one of the most famous composers word-wide. His 600 works include masterpieces like the"Unfinished Symphony" or "Erlkoenig".
Johann Strauss, Sr. (1804 - 1849)
The father of Johann Strauss, Jr.was himself as well a famous composer. His most distinguished work is the "Radetzky March".
Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825 - 1899)
Johann Strauss' son was as well-known as his father. His most famous work is the waltz "The Blue Danube".
Josef Strauss (1827 - 1870)
The younger and less famous brother in the Strauss family was also a composer and created some great works.
Christina Stürmer (1982)
Christina Stürmer emerged from the Austrian talent show "Starmania" and succeeded in singing German rock and pop.
Richard Tauber (1891 - 1948)
Tauber was an Austrian tenor, who was regarded as one of the greatest of the 20th century.
Johann Michael Vogl (1768 - 1840)
In his lifetime he was a famous singer and composer, but nowadays he is mostly remembered as the friend of Franz Schubert.
Stefan Weber (1946)
He is the lead singer of a famous Viennese Band Drahdiwaberl.
Anton Webern (1883 - 1945)
Anton was a famous composer,conductor and member of the Second Viennese School. He was shot by accident by an American soldier in the end of the Second World War.
Felix Weingartner (1863 - 1942)
Born outside of Austria, he returned to his roots in the later run. He became popular as conductor and composer.
Egon Joseph Wellesz (1885 - 1974)
The first private pupil of Arnold Schoenberg emigrated to England before the Second World War started. He became known for his studies about the Byzantine music.
Franz Welser-Moest (1960)
The Austrian conductor is at the moment enrolled as the music director of Cleveland.
Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942)
He was an Austrian composer, teacher and conductor, who was raised by the Jewish tradition. As a tragic consequence, he had to flee during the Second World War and emigrated to the United States.
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