Vienna has been an important center of musical innovation. 18th- and 19th-century composers were drawn to the city due to the patronage of the Habsburgs, and made Vienna the European capital of classical music. Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Johann Strauss II, among others, were associated with the city, with Schubert being born in Vienna. During the Baroque period, Slavic and Hungarian folk forms influenced Austrian music. Vienna's status began its rise as a cultural center in the early 16th century, and was focused on instruments including the lute.
Franz von Suppè was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungarian Empire. A composer and conductor of the Romantic period, he is notable for his four dozen operettas.
Egon Joseph Wellesz CBE was an Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music.
The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (German: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig) is a public university in Leipzig (Saxony, Germany). Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatorium der Musik (Conservatory of Music), it is the oldest university school of music in Germany.
Christoph Graupner was a German composer and harpsichordist of late Baroque music who was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel.
Paul Wranitzky was a Moravian-Austrian classical composer. His half brother, Antonín, was also a composer.
Friedrich Goldmann was a German composer and conductor.
Thomas Daniel Schlee is an Austrian composer, arts administrator, and organist.
The Répertoire International des Sources Musicales is an international non-profit organization, founded in Paris in 1952, with the aim of comprehensively documenting extant historical sources of music all over the world. It is the largest organization of its kind and the only entity operating globally to document written musical sources. RISM is one of the four bibliographic projects sponsored by the International Musicological Society and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, the others being Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, Répertoire international d'iconographie musicale, and Répertoire international de la presse musicale.
Anselm Hüttenbrenner was an Austrian composer. He was on friendly terms with both Ludwig van Beethoven—he was one of only two people known to be present at his bedside at the time of his death—and Franz Schubert, his recollections of whom constitute an interesting but probably unreliable document in Schubertian biographical studies.
Daniel Vnukowski is a Polish Canadian pianist and classical music broadcaster.
The Beethoven House in Bonn, Germany, is a memorial site, museum, and cultural institution serving various purposes. Founded in 1889 by the Beethoven-Haus association, it studies the life and work of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Thomas Raber is an Austrian composer and producer.
Violeta Dinescu is a Romanian composer, pianist and professor, living in Germany since 1982.
Wolfgang Mitterer is an Austrian composer and musician.
Julius Bittner was an Austrian composer.
The Eggner Trio is a piano trio from Vienna. The members are three brothers: Georg Eggner (violin), Florian Eggner (cello), and Christoph Eggner (piano). The trio performs and records a range of classical and modern chamber works. It has appeared in such distinguished venues as Wigmore Hall in London and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and in 2003 won the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition.
"Der Mondabend", WAB 200, is a lied composed by Anton Bruckner in c. 1850 for Aloisia Bogner.
Cybele Records is a German record label based in Düsseldorf, specializing in classical music, namely contemporary music. Founded in 1994, their motto is "Klassik der Zukunft", focused on contemporary composers and advanced recording technologies such as Super Audio CD and surround sound.
Bijan Khadem-Missagh, بیژن خادم میثاق, is an Austrian violinist, composer and conductor of Iranian descent. He is the founder and was the artistic director of the International Chamber Music Festival until 2016. Allegro Vivo.
