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- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
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- Musical Examples
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Identity and Place
- Part II Local Traditions and Instruments
- Part III Institutions, Organizations and Venues
- Part IV Composers, Performers and Critics
- 12 Music and Musicians in Vienna from the Middle Ages to the Mid Eighteenth Century
- 13 Viennese Musicians and Musical Culture in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
- 14 Composition in Vienna from the Vormärz to the Anschluss, 1830–1938
- 15 Rupture, Paradox and Continuity: Vienna Musical Life post-1933 through 1999
- 16 Twenty-First-Century Vienna
- Guidelines for Further Reading
- Index
14 - Composition in Vienna from the Vormärz to the Anschluss, 1830–1938
from Part IV - Composers, Performers and Critics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2026
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Book contents
- Vienna
- Vienna
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Musical Examples
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Identity and Place
- Part II Local Traditions and Instruments
- Part III Institutions, Organizations and Venues
- Part IV Composers, Performers and Critics
- 12 Music and Musicians in Vienna from the Middle Ages to the Mid Eighteenth Century
- 13 Viennese Musicians and Musical Culture in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
- 14 Composition in Vienna from the Vormärz to the Anschluss, 1830–1938
- 15 Rupture, Paradox and Continuity: Vienna Musical Life post-1933 through 1999
- 16 Twenty-First-Century Vienna
- Guidelines for Further Reading
- Index
Summary
The thriving musical culture of the mid to late nineteenth century and early twentieth century is addressed in this chapter. It examines the Vormärz, Revolution and Nachmärz (1830–60), Liberal Vienna (1860–97), the fin de siècle to the end of the Empire (1897–1918), Red Vienna (1919–34) and the years preceding the Anschluss (1938). The Viennese products of luminaries such as Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler, Anton Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern and Alexander von Zemlinsky are considered alongside those of less well-known Viennese figures from this period.
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- ViennaA Musical History, pp. 272 - 297Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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