Wienerkonsert nyårsdagen
The concert occurs at the Musikverein at The orchestra performs the same concert programme on 30 December, 31 December, and 1 January but only the last concert is regularly broadcast on radio and television. On occasion, music principally of other Austrian composers, including Joseph Hellmesberger Jr. In , music by Joseph Haydn was played for the first time, where the 4th movement of his "Farewell" Symphony marked the th anniversary of his death.
The announced programme contains approximately 14 to 20 compositions, and also three encores. The announced programme includes waltzes , polkas , mazurkas , and marches. Of the encores, the unannounced first encore is often a fast polka.
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The second is Johann Strauss II's waltz " The Blue Danube ", whose introduction is interrupted by light applause of recognition and a New Year's greeting in German originally added by Willi Boskovsky from the conductor and orchestra to the audience. The origin of this tradition stems from the New Year's Concert of , when the audience interrupted three pieces by enthusiastically applauding and cheering.
The final encore is Johann Strauss I's Radetzky March , during which the audience claps along under the conductor's direction. This did not start until In this last piece, tradition also calls for the conductor to start the orchestra as soon as they step onto the stage, before reaching the podium.
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The complete duration of the event is around two and a half hours. The television broadcast is augmented by ballet performances in selected pieces during the second part of the programme. The dancers come from the Vienna State Ballet and dance at different famous places in Austria, e. In , the costumes were designed by Vivienne Westwood. In , the orchestra itself provided the flowers.
Since , the flowers have been arranged by the Wiener Stadtgärten. New attire by designers Vivienne Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler debuted in There has been a tradition of concerts on New Year's Day in Vienna since , but not with music of the Strauss family.
New Year's Concert
The concert was first performed in , and conducted by Clemens Krauss. For the first and only time, the concert was not given on New Year's Day, but instead on 31 December of that year. It was called then a special, or 'extraordinary' concert Außerordentliches Konzert. Johann Strauss II was the only composer performed, in a modest program:. There were no encores in , and sources indicate that encores were not instituted until Clemens Krauss almost always included "Perpetuum mobile" either on the concert or as an encore.
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The waltz The Blue Danube was not performed until , and then as an encore. The Radetzky March was first performed in , as an encore. Until , these last two pieces were often but not always given as encores. Since that year, their position as twin encores has become inviolable tradition, with two exceptions:. One unannounced encore, a gallop or polka schnell , is always placed before the Blue Danube , and after the final announced work on the printed concert programme.
It has also been a scherz. Boskovsky, concertmaster of the orchestra from until , directed the Vienna New Year's concerts from to In , Lorin Maazel became the first non-Austrian conductor of the concert. The orchestra subsequently changed practice, to choose a different conductor every year.