Alison Knowles: Make a Salad 1962/2012

Foto: Liz Ligon Courtesy of the High Line

Arnold Schönberg in einem Photomaton, Berlin 1930

Foto: Arnold Schönberg Center

Susanne Blumenthal

Foto: Frank Schemmann

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS

Foto: Henri-Louis de Lagrage / Les Amis de Xenakis

Concert

ERÖFFNUNGSKONZERT WIEN MODERN

Festivalpass
Wednesday, 30. Oct.
7:30pm
Wednesday 30. Oct
Wiener Konzerthaus, Großer Saal

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End ca. 1:00am

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Foto: Liz Ligon, Courtesy of the High Line

Concert

FESTKONZERT
SCHÖNBERG 150 / ALISON KNOWLES

Wednesday, 06. Nov.
8:00pm
Wednesday 06. Nov
Wiener Rathaus, Festsaal

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End ca. 1:00am

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Foto: Belmont Music Publishers, Los Angeles/ASC

Station theatre

MANOS TSANGARIS: ARNOLD ELEVATORS 1
BLICKE

Wednesday, 13. Nov.
7:40pm
Wednesday 13. Nov
Secession

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Foto: Manu Theobald

Concert

BEAT FURRER 70
BEGEHREN

Festivalpass
Tuesday, 19. Nov.
8:00pm
Tuesday 19. Nov
Wiener Konzerthaus, Großer Saal

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End ca. 1:00am

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Open Calendar

TICKETS

Viel Publikum bei Wien Modern — © Markus Sepperer

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New Music for an Audience

Music brings people together. How does it do that? What does it feel like? And why don't we talk about it much more often?

For what feels like forever, music history has revolved exclusively around masterpieces and ‘individual strokes of genius’, and this includes what has been known as ‘new music’ since 1919. Festival Wien Modern, with its tens of thousands of yearly visitors, is the perfect setting to shift the perspective a little.

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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