The City Of Musical

For many centuries,Vienna was the glittering capital of a great empire.The sponsorship of the Habsburg dynasty and many of the aristocrats at the imperial court created an excellent environment for musicians and artists. It is thus not surprising that many great composers were attracted to the city they came, stayed and wrote immortal music: Gluck, Beethoven and Brahms were born in other countries; Mozart, Haydn,Bruckner and Mahler hailed from within Austria. And the greatest truly Viennese opera ever composed, Der Rosenkavalier,was written by a Bavarian,Richard Strauss who had never even lived in Vienna.