Wiener Konzerthaus
Grand nineteen-thirteen concert house with four halls and a pipe organ hidden entirely behind its stage wall.
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This guide to the Wiener Konzerthaus traces its 1913 origins as a deliberate rival to Vienna's grander Musikverein, built to be open to everyone rather than the well-connected few. It follows the emperor Franz Joseph laying the ceremonial final stone, and the opening night pairing of a new Richard Strauss piece with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Listen for the organ built by the Rieger brothers, tucked somewhere behind the Great Hall's curved wall.
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