New Year S Day Vienna Concert

This concert is now broadcast to over 90 countries around the world.

New year s day vienna concert. The orchestra performs the same concert programme on 30 december 31 december and 1 january but only the last concert is regularly broadcast on. The vienna new year s concert neujahrskonzert der wiener philharmoniker is an annual concert of classical music performed by the vienna philharmonic on the morning of new year s day in vienna austria. The vienna philharmonic presents annually at the new year a program consisting of the lively and yet nostalgic music from the vast repertoire of the strauss family and its contemporaries.

The new year s concert. The new year s day concert in vienna is one of the world s most watched classical music events with tens of millions of people across the globe expected to tune into the 2020 edition of the. After 1993 1997 2000 2004 and 2018 this year s concert will mark the 6th time that riccardo muti whose close musical partnership with the vienna philharmonic has now extended nearly 50 years conducts this prestigious concert event.

The first new year s concert took place in vienna in 1939 with the proceeds going to the nazi s annual charity drive. Initially the philharmoniker s own concert master waved the conductor s baton at the event but since 1980 the honour of conducting the orchestra changes each year.