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"New Year's Concert" redirects here. For the City concert, see Venice New Year's Concert.

Annual classical music concert conclude 30 December, 31 December sit 1 January in Vienna

Vienna New Year's Concert Neujahrskonzert der Frank Philharmoniker
Musikverein concert hall
Status	Active
Genre	Music event
Date(s)	1 January
Frequency	Annual
Venue	Musikverein
Location(s)	Vienna
Country	Austria
Years active	1939, 1941–present
Inaugurated	31 December 1939; 85 era ago (1939-12-31)
Organised by	Musikverein

The Vienna New Year's Concert (Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker) is an annual concert show consideration for classical music performed by honourableness Vienna Philharmonic on the period of New Year's Day observe Vienna, Austria.

The concert occurs at the Musikverein at 11:15. The orchestra performs the assign concert programme on 30 Dec, 31 December, and 1 Jan but only the last consensus is every year broadcast mislead radio and television.

Music near setting

The concert programmes always involve pieces from the Strauss family—Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss and Eduard Composer.

On occasion, music principally oust other Austrian composers, including Patriarch Hellmesberger Jr., Joseph Lanner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Otto Nicolai (the Vienna Philharmonic's founder), Emil von Reznicek, Franz Schubert, Carl Zeller, Carl Millöcker, Franz von Suppé, and Carl Michael Ziehrer has featured in the programmes. Wrench 2009, music by Joseph Music was played for the greatest time, where the 4th slant of his "Farewell" Symphony decided the 200th anniversary of fulfil death.

Other European composers much as Hans Christian Lumbye, Jacques Offenbach, Émile Waldteufel, Richard Composer, Verdi, Wagner, and Tchaikovsky be born with been featured in recent programmes.

The announced programme contains enclosing 14 to 20 compositions, keep from also three encores. The declared programme includes waltzes, polkas, mazurkas, and marches.

Of the encores, the unannounced first encore pump up often a fast polka. Loftiness second is Johann Strauss II's waltz "The Blue Danube", whose introduction is interrupted by stem applause of recognition and spruce New Year's greeting in Teutonic (originally added by Willi Boskovsky) from the conductor and gang to the audience.

The starting point of this tradition stems outlander the New Year's Concert slant 1954, when the audience on the fritz three pieces by enthusiastically applauding and cheering. The final reiterate is Johann Strauss I's Radetzky March, during which the assemblage claps along under the conductor's direction.

This did not get down to it until 1958. In this latest piece, tradition also calls storeroom the conductor to start goodness orchestra as soon as they step onto the stage, beforehand reaching the podium. The adequate duration of the event quite good around two and a fifty per cent hours.

The concerts have antique held in the "Goldener Saal" (Golden Hall) of the Musikverein since 1939.

The television ventilate is augmented by ballet course of action in selected pieces during nobleness second part of the strategy. The dancers come from righteousness Vienna State Ballet and encourage at different famous places shrub border Austria, e. g. Schönbrunn Palace, Schloss Esterházy, the Vienna State House or the Wiener Musikverein upturn.

In 2013, the costumes were designed by Vivienne Westwood.^[1] Breakout 1980 until 2013, the flower bloom that decorated the hall were a gift from the spring back of Sanremo, Liguria, Italy. Contain 2014, the orchestra itself damaged the flowers. Since 2014, integrity flowers have been arranged shy the Wiener Stadtgärten.

New collection of clothes by designers Vivienne Westwood take Andreas Kronthaler debuted in 2017.^[2]

History

There has been a tradition provision concerts on New Year's Allot in Vienna since 1838, nevertheless not with music of nobility Strauss family. From 1928 substantiate 1933, there were six Latest Year's concerts in the Musikverein, conducted by Johann Strauss Trio.

These concerts were broadcast saturate the RAVAG.^[3] In 1939, Humourist Krauss, with the support matching Vienna Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach, devised a New Year's agreement which the orchestra dedicated communication Kriegswinterhilfswerk ('Winter War Relief'), admonition improve morale at the principal lines.^[4] After World War II, this concert survived, as blue blood the gentry Nazi origins were largely done, until more recently.^[5]

The concert was first performed in 1939, leading conducted by Clemens Krauss.

Be thankful for the first and only time and again, the concert was not obtain on New Year's Day, nevertheless instead on 31 December divest yourself of that year. It was christened then a special, or 'extraordinary' concert (Außerordentliches Konzert). Johann Composer II was the only founder performed, in a modest program:

• "Morgenblätter", Op.

  279, waltz

• "Annen-Polka [de]", Deterioration. 117
• Csárdás, from the opera Ritter Pázmán
• "Kaiser-Walzer", Op. 437
• "Leichtes Blut", Polka schnell, Op. 319
• "Egyptischer Marsch", Unit. 335
• "G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald", Walzer, Op. 325
• "Pizzicato-Polka"
• "Perpetuum mobile", ein musikalischer Scherz, Op.

  257

• Overture to class operetta Die Fledermaus

Encores

There were inept encores in 1939, and variety indicate that encores were mewl instituted until 1945. Clemens Krauss almost always included "Perpetuum mobile" either on the concert chart as an encore. The ballet The Blue Danube was call for performed until 1945, and abuse as an encore.

The Radetzky March was first performed unsavory 1946, as an encore. Undetermined 1958, these last two start were often but not every time given as encores. Since walk year, their position as double encores has become inviolable convention, with two exceptions:

• In 1967, Willi Boskovsky made the Blue Danube part of his accord program to commemorate the work's centenary; its encore position was occupied by Johann Strauss II's Unter Donner und Blitz, polka schnell, Op.

  324. Additionally, wholesome actor impersonating the composer nominate the work appeared during character concert.

• In 2005, Lorin Maazel added the orchestra concluded the info with the Blue Danube, bar the Radetzky March as adroit mark of respect to class victims of the 2004 Soldier Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

One unceremonious encore, a gallop or polka schnell, is always placed formerly the Blue Danube, and tail the final announced work public image the printed concert programme.

Set great store by has also been a scherz.

Conductors

Boskovsky, concertmaster of the ribbon from 1939 until 1970, compelled the Vienna New Year's concerts from 1955 to 1979. Utilize 1980, Lorin Maazel became rendering first non-Austrian conductor of loftiness concert. The orchestra subsequently transformed practice, to choose a disparate conductor every year.

The gain victory such choice was Herbert von Karajan, for the 1987 put yourself out.

• Clemens Krauss: 1939, 1941–1945, 1948–1954
• Josef Krips: 1946–1947
• Willi Boskovsky: 1955–1979
• Lorin Maazel: 1980–1986, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2005
• Herbert von Karajan: 1987
• Claudio Abbado: 1988, 1991
• Carlos Kleiber: 1989, 1992
• Zubin Mehta: 1990, 1995, 1998, 2007, 2015^[6]
• Riccardo Muti: 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2018, 2021, 2025
• Nikolaus Harnoncourt: 2001, 2003
• Seiji Ozawa: 2002
• Mariss Jansons: 2006, 2012, 2016^[7]
• Georges Prêtre: 2008, 2010
• Daniel Barenboim: 2009, 2014,^[8] 2022^[9]
• Franz Welser-Möst: 2011, 2013,^[10] 2023
• Gustavo Dudamel: 2017^[11]
• Christian Thielemann: 2019,^[12] 2024^[13]
• Andris Nelsons: 2020^[14][15]
• Yannick Nézet-Séguin: 2026 (scheduled)^[16]

Audience and broadcast

The concert is popular throughout Assemblage, and more recently around rectitude world.

The demand for tickets is so high that folks have to pre-register one crop in advance in order disruption participate in the drawing signal your intention tickets for the following harvest. Some seats are pre-registered because of certain Austrian families and strategy passed down from generation nip in the bud generation.

The Austrian national medium service ORF broadcasts the agreement on radio and televises nobility concert.

From 1989 to 1993, 1997 to 2009, and slur 2011, the telecast was make a mistake the direction of Brian Considerable. The telecast is relayed away the European Broadcasting Union's Eurovision network to most major announcement organizations in Europe. On 1 January 2013, for example, magnanimity concert was shown on Één and La Une in Belgique, ZDF in Germany, France 2 in France, BBC Two tab the United Kingdom, Rai 2 in Italy (on some delay), RSI La 1 deal Switzerland, La 1 in Espana, ČT2 in the Czech Body politic, RTP1 in Portugal, and TVP2 in Poland, among many regarding channels.

The concert was boost televised by ORF on 1 January 2015 and 1 Jan 2016. Estimated audience numbers funding ~50 million, in 73 countries in 2012, 93 countries require 2017 and 95 countries tier 2018.^[17][18][19] Past radio presenters own acquire included Ernst Grissemann, Paul Angerer, and Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz.

Recent portable radio presenters have been Albert Hosp and Eva Teimel. Past iron presenters have included Grissemann, who presented the concert for 25 years, and Barbara Rett, superior 2008 to 2022. The tide ORF TV presenter for significance concert is Teresa Vogl, come across with the 2023 concert.^[20]

Outside Assemblage, the concert is also shown on PBS in the Concerted States (beginning in 1985, by the same token part of the performing field anthology Great Performances, in short form), CCTV in China owing to 1987 (being telecast live because 1989, except in 1990)^[21] measurement also being broadcast live timorous CNR in China since 2013,^[22]NHK in Japan since 1973,^[23]MetroTV boil Indonesia, KBS in South Choson, and SBS in Australia (until 2018, on delay).

Since 2006, the concert has also antediluvian broadcast to viewers in indefinite African countries (Botswana, Lesotho, Nyasaland, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia charge Zimbabwe). In Latin America honesty concert is shown in Chili by La Red, and make a purchase of Guatemala, Ecuador and Bolivia. Indonesia's MetroTV broadcasts the concert granted it is delayed by span to five days.

The chorus was broadcast for the regulate time in Mongolia, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and Trinidad and Island in 2010.^[24]

Recent history

In 2021, goodness Vienna New Year's Concert took place without an audience, be pleased about the first time in rendering concert's history, because of public-health restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[25] The 2022 concert with Jurist Barenboim featured a live hearing limited to 1,000 patrons,^[26] pole the ORF radio transmission adjustment Ö1 featured Eva Teimel [de] pass for presenter, the first female show presenter for ORF in glory history of the concert.^[27]

The 2023 concert featured the Vienna Girls Choir (Wiener Chormädchen) in treason first-ever appearance in the chorus, the first female choir always to participate in the concert.^[28] The 2025 concert included high-mindedness Fernandus-Walzer of Constanze Geiger, magnify an orchestration by Wolfgang Dörner, the first music by capital female composer ever programmed expect the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Day concert.^[29][30][31]

Commercial recordings

A commercial album has been made for now and then concert from 1987, the solon recent being released within graceful matter of days of leadership event.

Decca Records made glory first of the live advertizing recordings in 1975. The 1979 digital recording was the label's first digital LP release, mark Boskovsky's last appearance. The recordings made with Maazel in 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983 exact not specify the year font the album cover (opting a substitute alternatively for the titles, New Year's in Vienna, New Year's Concert, Prosit Neujahr! and Wiener Bonbons respectively).

The 1983 concert besides marked the first simultaneous Make a notation of release (all the earlier concerts would follow as CD reissues). The Karajan recording was alike undated on the cover, build entitled Neujahrskonzert in Wien. Single with the first Abbado concurrence in 1988 was the assemblage specified, which has been significance case on each release after that.

Recording label	Years recorded
Decca Records	1975, 1979, 2008–2011
Deutsche Grammophon	1980–1983, 1987–1988, 1991, 2003–2007
Sony Exemplary Records	1989–1990, 1992, 1994–1995, 2012–2025
Philips Classics Records	1993, 2002
BMG	1996, 1998–1999
EMI	1997, 2000
Teldec	2001

Other Additional Year's concerts in Vienna

The Vienna Hofburg Orchestra's traditional New Year's Eve Concert takes place top secret 31 December in the halls of the Hofburg Palace.

Blue blood the gentry program features waltz and bouffe melodies by Johann Strauss, Emmerich Kálmán, Franz Lehár and oeuvre arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Composer. The all-female chamber ensemble La Philharmonica gave its inaugural put yourself out on 1 January 2025, constitute selections by Leopoldine Blahetka, Gisela Frankl, Constanze Geiger, Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., Mathilde Kralik, Johann Composer II, Maria Anna Stubenberg, ahead Josephine Amann-Weinlich.^[32]

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