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News 17.02.2026

Elfriede Jelinek: Science – Art – Democracy 

From 2 to 4 November 2026, the Joint Research Network Elfriede Jelinek will host an interdisciplinary workshop for early career researchers and early career artists. The workshop will take place at the University of Vienna and the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna, in cooperation with Wien Modern and the Musikverein.

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Wien Modern 38 - The Great Learning

We find ourselves in year 37 after the founding of Wien Modern. The population of Vienna has grown by an astonishing 37 percent. Vienna feels noticeably different and less backward-looking than it did 37 years ago, at the low point of the population curve. What music is to be discovered in a growing, increasingly diverse metropolis? Which stages reach which people? Who stands on these stages and who doesn't? And what can music, an astonishingly diverse, touching and inspiring art form, do to help us navigate the learning curves of the present as elegantly as possible?

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Cornelius Cardew: The Great Learning

Cornelius Cardew: The Great Learning

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Cornelius Cardew: The Great Learning

Cornelius Cardew: The Great Learning

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Cornelius Cardew: The Great Learning

Cornelius Cardew: The Great Learning

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Cornelius Cardew: The Great Learning

Cornelius Cardew: The Great Learning

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New music for the city

With around a month of events at countless locations all over the city, Wien Modern is the biggest festival for contemporary arts music in Austria and one of the biggest of its kind worldwide. It was founded in 1988 at the initiative of Claudio Abbado, conductor and the general music director of the city of Vienna at the time. Since then, it takes place every year in November in Vienna.

Exactly what is to be expected from "contemporary arts music" and from a festival with the name "Wien Modern", which is at odds with all the clichés of Vienna?

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