The Vienna New Year’s Concert is an annual concert of classical music performed by the Vienna Philharmonic. The announced programme contains approximately 14-20 compositions, and also three encores. The television broadcast is augmented by ballet performances in selected pieces during the second part of the programme.
About Vienna New Year’s Concert in brief
The Vienna New Year’s Concert is an annual concert of classical music performed by the Vienna Philharmonic. The concert occurs at the Musikverein at 11: 15. The announced programme contains approximately 14-20 compositions, and also three encores. The final encore is Johann Strauss I’s Radetzky March, during which the audience claps along under the conductor’s direction. The television broadcast is augmented by ballet performances in selected pieces during the second part of the programme. In 2013, the costumes were designed by Vivienne Westwood. The flowers that decorated the hall were a gift from the city of Sanremo, Liguria, Italy. In 2014, the orchestra itself provided the flowers.
Since 1980, the flowers have been arranged by the Wiener Stadtgärten. The orchestra choose a different conductor every year, with two exceptions: Boskovsky, master of the orchestra from 1939 until 1970, and Maazel, conductor from 1955 to 1979. In 2009, music by Joseph Haydn was played for the first time, where the 4th movement of his \”Farewell\” Symphony marked the 200th anniversary of his death. Other European composers such as Hans Christian Lumbye, Jacques Offenbach, Émile Waldteufel, Richard Strauss, Verdi, and Tchaikovsky have been featured in recent programmes. The complete duration of the event is around two and a half hours.
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