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" Viennese society had, since the days of Austria's eclipse at Sadowa, sought to conceal the injured patriotic emotions born of that disaster by affecting a hysterical sort of gaiety which was somewhat foreign to the real character of the people ... like all forced characteristics, the new-found frivility of the Viennese degenerated quickly into a positive mania for wickedness, without, at the same time, taking on any of the picturesque artistry which conceals-and often condones-the refined viciousness of Parisians ... who, also, after 1870, went through for many years a phase of social madness similar to that which affected Austria ... Viennese society was probably the most dissipated in Europe, and so became a happy mart for ladies of that type that serves the foibles of a prince.
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Viennese and society
While Freud's ideas were ignored and embarrassing to Viennese society, his work provoked a serious challenge to Victorian prudishness by providing the groundwork for the ideas of sex drive and infant sexuality.
After all, Viennese society itself was multilingual, with many able to speak German, French, Italian and / or Spanish.
The former military officer Karl von Mirkowitsch made it acceptable both for society and ballroom, and since 1932 the Viennese Waltz has been present on ballroom dance floors.
He is best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake.
Yet, despite his bad health, poverty and depression, Schubert continued to turn out the tuneful, light and gemütlich music that made him the toast of Viennese society: the song cycle Die schöne Müllerin, the octet for string quartet, contrabass, clarinet, horn and bassoon, more than 20 songs, and numerous light pieces for piano.
Richard Lugner ( born October 11, 1932 ) is a successful Austrian entrepreneur in the construction industry, a Viennese society figure, and a former political candidate not affiliated with any of the Austrian political parties.
The public premiere was on 1 April 1798, sponsored by the Tonkünstler-Societät, a Viennese benefit society for musicians.
In 1882, Brüll married Marie Schosberg, a banker's daughter who became a popular hostess to Viennese musical and artistic society.
In 1857 the spa was purchased by the Viennese professor and cosmopolitan Dr. Stein, who invited the cream of Viennese society to the health spa.
Viennese and had
Schoenberg's pupil Anton Webern, in his 1933 lectures, posthumously published under the title The Path to the New Music, claimed Brahms as one who had anticipated the developments of the Second Viennese School, and Webern's own Op.
" He also had predictable habits, which were noted by the Viennese press, such as his daily visit to his favourite " Red Hedgehog " tavern in Vienna, and his habit of walking with his hands firmly behind his back ( once again, like Beethoven ), which led to a caricature of him in this pose walking alongside a red hedgehog.
Some of these Viennese pianos had the opposite coloring of modern-day pianos ; the natural keys were black and the accidental keys white.
Freud stated that homosexuality could sometimes be removed through hypnotic suggestion, and was influenced by Eugen Steinach, a Viennese endocrinologist who transplanted testicles from straight men into gay men in attempts to change their sexual orientation, stating that his research had “ thrown a strong light on the organic determinants of homo-eroticism ”.
Following some inspired matchmaking by his Viennese colleagues, in 1919 Jones met and married Katherine Jokl, a Jewish economics graduate from Moravia, who had been at school in Vienna with Freud ’ s daughters.
In 1697 Victor Amadeus commissioned Le Notre to lay out large gardens at the Palace of Turin where he had previously commissioned the Viennese Daniel Seiter to paint a famous gallery which exists to this day.
At the beginning of the 1935s the Viennese Waltz had its comeback as a folk dance in Germany and Austria.
About the same time, the Viennese Waltz had its comeback as a folk dance in The Greater Cleveland Ohio U. S. A. Area, due to the population of Slovenians ( 60, 000-80, 000 ) settled in the area.
However, this formula had been used in Viennese operetta, such as The Merry Widow.
When Haydn's Capriccio was published by Artaria in the 1780s, the Viennese bass octave had mostly disappeared ( indeed, the harpsichord itself was becoming obsolete ).
In 1839, he had heard a Viennese orchestra play music by Johann Strauss, after which he composed in the same style, eventually earning the nickname " The Strauss of the North ".
Around Easter 1914 he met the Viennese musicologist Franz Haböck, author of the extremely important book Die Kastraten und ihre Gesangskunst ( The Castrati and their Art of Singing, published in Berlin in 1927 ), who had plans to cast Moreschi in concerts reviving the repertoire of the great eighteenth-century castrato Farinelli.
In 1998, Koch and Vadasz saw a presentation by a Viennese scientist, Hermann Hofbauer, about a technology he had developed to make an alternative fuel from wood.
Vilém Tauský was from a musical family: his Viennese mother had sung Mozart at the Vienna State Opera under Gustav Mahler, and her cousin was the operetta composer Leo Fall.
The techniques, which had been first described by the Viennese physician Leopold Auenbrugger ( 1722 – 1809 ) in 1761, became far more widely known following the publication of Jean-Nicolas Corvisart's translation of Auenbrugger's work in 1808.
By 1750, August Carl had obtained a post with the Viennese Schottenkircheorchestra.
Although the first coffehouses had appeared in Europe some years earlier, the Viennese café tradition became an important part of the city's identity.
Even though a majority of Viennese considered his removal from office illegitimate, Seitz's political career had essentially been brought to an end.
He had trained in philosophy, but stated also that the Viennese psychoanalyst Richard Sterba had analyzed him.
It is unclear why he abandoned the work, although Zaslaw has proposed that it was a combination of the difficulties presented by re-writing and adapting the libretto for the Viennese audience and the fact that in 1785, Da Ponte had finally come through with the libretto for Le nozze di Figaro.
Rumours circulated at the Viennese court that had Cosimo as a candidate for King of England, as by Catholic reckoning England had devolved on the Papacy with the death of Mary I in 1558.
Viennese and since
The period is sometimes referred to as the era of Viennese Classic or Classicism (), since Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Antonio Salieri, and Ludwig van Beethoven all worked at some time in Vienna, and Franz Schubert was born there.
* Viennese Opera Ball in New York, annual event that has been running since 1956
They have paid $ 2 million into his Viennese bank account for information about Iraq's military strength, but he has gone to ground since the invasion.
' Liebeslieder ' stands among one of the master works of the Strauss Jr., who had, since 1849 an enduringly difficult time convincing the Viennese that his works deserve the attention it sought.
The final work of the celebrated Viennese artist and architect was ceremonially opened in 2000 as the Hundertwasser Station, Uelzen and has since been a popular tourist magnet.
* Viennese Opera Ball in New York or Wiener Opernball in New York, a charity event at Waldorf Astoria ( since 1956 )
Viennese and days
Set from the days of the Anschluss of 1938 until after the end of the war, Der Bockerer is about a Viennese butcher named Karl Bockerer ( Karl Merkatz ) whose common sense rather than intellect tells him to oppose the Nazis and who dares to show resistance just because he is never fully aware of the possible fateful consequences of his actions.
:" Within days of the new orders, Sousa Mendes was taken to task for having granted a visa to a Viennese refugee, Professor Arnold Wizrntzer.
He studied architecture in Vienna during the waning days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire under the Viennese master Otto Wagner.
Viennese and Austria's
Singer's parents were Viennese Jews who emigrated to Australia from Vienna in 1938, after Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany.
The Wiener Riesenrad ( German for " Viennese giant wheel "), or Riesenrad, is a tall Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna.
Austria's capital city, Vienna, has its own counter-terrorist SWAT team, called WEGA ( Wiener Einsatzgruppe Alarmabteilung ; in English: Viennese Special Task Force Alarm Section ) which is equally trained and capable of handling serious situations such as hostage taking.
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