Vienna - the City of Music

Famous Composers from Vienna
  (and Composers who spent at least 
 a major part of their lives in Vienna)

18^th and 19^th century:

Mozart, Gluck, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner, Lanner, Strauß (both senior & junior, the "King of Waltz")

20^th century:

Mahler, J. M. Hauer, Schönberg, Alban Berg, Webern, v. Zemlinsky, Lehár, Stolz, G. v. Einem
             

Institutions:

• Opera House ("Staatsoper", State Opera, the former Imperial Opera)

• Vienna Philharmonic

• The "Musikverein" (where the famous New Year's Concert is broadcast from every year into millions of households all over the world)

• "Konzerthaus" (Vienna Concert Hall, a fine Art Nouveau building)

• "Wiener Sängerknaben" (Vienna Choir Boys)

• Arnold Schönberg Center

• Herbert von Karajan Centrum (Karajan Center)

In several historic places concerts are held by orchestras of various size (and different fame), some of them performed even in historic costumes.  Tickets are sold all over the "Inner City" by street vendors.