Austria

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Choir
Ave verum corpus: influential Mozart score for the crucial Catholic chant

Ave verum corpus is one of the best-known sacramental chants that originated in the Medieval period and has since been…

January 18, 2022
Piano
Für Elise: 2 versions of Beethoven's best-known piano piece

Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor, commonly known as Für Elise, is undoubtedly Beethoven's best-known piano work as well as…

November 11, 2021
Piano
Ständchen from Schwanengesang serenade as Schubert's last testament

Originating in Europe in the Middle Ages, the serenade (ger. ständchen) is a love song composed for one vocal line and…

October 7, 2021
Piano
Alla Turca: Janissary-music piano inspired by Mozart's best-known piece

Alla Turca, also known as the Turkish Rondo or Turkish March, is undoubtedly Mozart's most famous piano composition…

September 1, 2021
Poetry
On the Massacre of Glencoe: Walter Scott lyrics set to Beethoven's arrangement of folk melody

The Massacre of Glencoe is one of the darkest chapters in Scottish history which saw the treacherous slaughter of…

August 27, 2020
Nature Sounds
8 orchestral pieces depicting thunderstorms

Of all the meteorological phenomena, thunderstorms are perhaps one of the most imposing forces of nature, so it is not…

August 23, 2020
Classical Guitar
Innovative tremolo technique by Johann Kaspar Mertz and his contribution to terz guitar

Johann Kaspar Mertz was an Austro-Hungarian composer and outstanding guitarist of the Romantic era who is credited with…

April 26, 2020
Orchestra
Grosse Fuge: Armageddon or the birth of atonality featured in Beethoven’s last major work

The Grosse Fuge is one of Beethoven’s most controversial works which he finished shortly before his death while being…

April 1, 20201 comment
Music Theory
Lydian mode: famous examples throughout the music history

Major and minor modes are the most used diatonic scales in classical and popular music due to their versatile structure…

January 12, 2020
Film
Symphonic scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold established new standards in the film industry

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian pianist and composer whose contribution to film music has actually set the…

January 1, 2020
Classical Guitar
Anton Diabelli: prolific composer and arranger excelled in publishing guitar and piano music for beginners

Anton Diabelli was an Austrian composer best known during the early Romantic period for his work as a music publisher…

December 11, 20191 comment
Orchestra
Mozart and Tom Waits wrote music for the glass armonica which was rumored to cause mental health damage

The glass armonica is one of many curious instruments that came into use with small ensembles during the transition…

September 3, 20191 comment
Music Theory
Classic examples of the Phrygian mode through the music eras

From Middle Ages to modernity, Western music has been largely based on diatonic scales that organize seven notes into…

August 24, 20194 comments
Orchestra
The many attempts of Romantic composers to adapt Shakuntala love story from Mahabharata epic

The love story of Shakuntala is first mentioned in the oldest Sanskrit epic of the Mahābhārata which could be traced…

July 17, 2019
Nature Sounds
Why birds sing their songs: great maestros proving the musicality of nightingale, cuckoo, yellowhammer

It is no coincidence that the sounds emitted by birds are known in many languages as "songs", rather than simple animal…

June 23, 20191 comment
Piano
Beethoven's famous piano trio carried the genre to the Romantic era

Compositions written for a group of three instruments where the leading piano is usually accompanied by a violin and…

March 29, 20192 comments
Piano
Zawinul incited his electric piano to report the jazz weather

European jazz pianist Joe Zawinul is best known for his founding the iconic band Weather Report which is highly…

March 8, 2019
Orchestra
Classic textbook by great Austrian composer eclipsed his talent

Johann Joseph Fux was an Austrian composer, music theorist, and teacher of the late Baroque era. He is most famous as…

September 8, 2018
Orchestra
Modern jazz trumpet for gifted Mozart scholar

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) was an Austrian composer and outstanding virtuoso pianist during the transition…

July 15, 2018
Orchestra
Im Sommerwind is an atypical work of the typical modernist composer

Austrian composer Anton Webern rose to fame as a member of the Second Viennese School, a prominent movement known for…

July 1, 2018
Orchestra
Comic 'Italienische Serenade' was the end of Hugo Wolf

The inspiration for the Italian Serenade came to Hugo Wolf from the novella Leben eines Taugenichts by the German…

June 2, 2018
Cello
The lost Haydn concerto was found among the Czech castle documents

Cello Concerto in C demonstrates the many facets that are unique to the cello only, from growling low chords to sweet…

May 20, 20181 comment
Wind Ensemble
Mozart's rewritten serenade inspired by street musicians

The Serenade in E-flat major exists in two versions: a sextet of two clarinets, two bassoons, and two horns, and an…

April 15, 2018
Cello
The surviving pearl of Mademoiselle Paradis, contemporary of Mozart

Maria Theresia von Paradis was a contemporary of Mozart and Haydn. She achieved significant glory as both a composer…

April 7, 2018