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On the 100th birthday of Pierre Boulez

Conversation concert on March 26, 2025

On March 26, 2025, the music world will commemorate the 100th birthday of Pierre Boulez. The Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien is paying tribute to its honorary member with a conversation concert in which Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Pierre Boulez’s pianist par excellence, plays a central role. Read more about this topic.

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Encores

Would you like to know which work was played as an encore at your last concert? You can find the answer in our concert archive. Enter the concert date, orchestra or performer to search for the concert. You will find the respective encore on the programme page.

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The 2024/25 season

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Conducting on the royal route

Zum bereits dritten Mal in Folge präsentiert die Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien einen Christian-Thielemann-Zyklus. Er reicht ins Jahr 2025 hinein, in dem sich ein Vierteljahrhundert Interpretationsgeschichte rundet, das Christian Thielemann, Wien und den Musikverein…

© Felix Broede

Suction effect

The focus “Prokofiev | Levit” is a dream come true for Igor Levit. On three evenings in March, the German pianist will perform Sergei Prokofiev’s five piano concertos with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván…

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The master with the hammer and the fine blade

The Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna is honoring its honorary member Pierre Boulez with a special event to mark his 100th birthday.

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Musikverein Perspektiven: Anton Zeilinger

The physicist Anton Zeilinger is passionate about music. This will become clear in the Musikverein Perspektiven: in concerts and talks developed with the Nobel Prize winner.

© Julia Wesely

Colorful, open and honest

Víkingur Ólafsson does not shy away from musical boundaries. As an artist in the focus of the Musikverein, the Icelandic pianist can be experienced with excellent artistic partners – and with a repertoire that represents…

Manu Theobald

A spirit of experimentation and research

Clara Iannotta is the composer in focus at the Musikverein in the 2024/25 season. Works by female composers are also central to a cooperation project that will run for several years.

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Contemporary music

For more than two centuries, the “revival of music in all its branches” has been the main goal of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.

© Julia Wesely

Simply conduct

Four orchestras in six concerts: Klaus Mäkelä brings all his orchestras from Oslo, Paris and Amsterdam to the Musikverein. He will also make his debut conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in the Großer Musikvereinssaal.

© Stephan Trierenberg

Musikverein Festival: Claras Blumenalbum

Among the countless treasures preserved in the archives of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, this is perhaps the finest, most delicate – and certainly the most tender.

© Julia Wesely

Strong relationships

The subscription program for the 2024/25 season brings leading contemporary artists to the concert hall of the Musikverein. Tailor-made festivals and focal points invite you to listen to familiar works with new ears and discover…

Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna

Colossal sounds

A comprehensive concert series for the 2023/24 season with works by Arnold Schönberg to mark his 150th birthday. Birthday takes place on 13. and September 14, 2024, with the “Gurre-Lieder” premiered in the Großer Musikvereinssaal.

© Deutsche Grammophon I Rita Newman

Jewels in a rollercoaster of emotions

Franz Schubert is one of the composers that Rudolf Buchbinder has grown particularly fond of during his decades-long career, alongside Beethoven

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How do we want to live together?

The popular series “Auf ein Glas mit…”, in which artists have spoken about a wide variety of topics after events at the Musikverein, will have a common theme in the 2024/25 season: “How do we…

© Julia Wesely

Warmth, feeling and expression

With Janine Jansen, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna is focusing on one of today’s best and most extraordinary violinists: in 2024/25, the Dutch violinist will perform as a soloist with orchestra, with a recital…

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Fine and fragrant

No music better illustrates the musical lightness of the 19th century, framed by dancing congress and fin de siècle.

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With charisma and temperament

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla attracted international attention in 2016 with her great success as chief conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Since then, the versatile Lithuanian has been a guest in the world’s most important…

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Brahms-Hall Musikverein Vienna

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Guided Tours

Of course, the best way to get to know the Musikverein is to attend a concert. In addition, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde opens its magnificent house for tours.

Musikverein Wien, interior, Großer Musikvereinssaal, Golden Hall, architecture, organ, rows of seats, seating, ceiling painting

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Being a member of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde has always been something special. Belonging, identification and love for the common cause gave the impetus for the founding of the association 200 years ago.

Musikverein Wien, red carpet, staircase to the Großer Musikvereinssaal and Brahms Saal

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The concert visit

How to travel in a ‘green’ way? Where to park? What are the gastronomic options? Here you will find everything you need to know in order to spend a wonderful evening at the Vienna Musikverein.

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