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Bond With Music
ienna is the music capital
of the world. No other city Vienna is a city which has a very
evokes such immediate special and long relationship
associations with the great with Music. The Music museum in
classical composers and the king Vienna is one of its kinds. This
of waltz. The House of Music was new interactive museum
opened in the First District, in specializes in Vienna’s amazing
2000 as a museum of the 21st musical history, with exhibits on
century. The building is a former all of the city’s musical legends
Habsburg palace where Otto and displays on the mechanics of
Nicolai, founder of the Vienna music.
Philharmonic, once lived. The
creative concept of the museum Envision standing at the podium
combines futuristic new media and conducting the world’s most
applications with a strong renowned orchestra, the Wiener
didactic element. Here visitors Philharmoniker. Dreams can nearly
can learn how a musical come true at the House of Music,
instrument works and can try where one can earn a degree as a
composition, conducting and ‘virtual conductor’ without even
playing. A big attraction is the having graduated from the Academy
virtual orchestra where anyone of Music. The venerable orchestra
can take a baton and conduct the keeps the proper time, whether
Vienna Phil on a large screen one chooses to conduct in the
with the score of the Blue Danube manner of Herbert von Karajan or
or Radetzky March. If successful Hans Knappertsbusch.
the orchestra will reward the
newcomer with applause but if the One floor of the museum is a
tempo is wrong the players down “sonosphere” where sounds can be
instruments with cries of felt such as those experienced by
disapproval. an embryo in the womb. A “future
sphere” is concerned with For another type of experience
electronic music. On a floor for one can use the “Mind Forest” to
the great composers where create music by using one’s
visitors can learn with the aid voice, hands, and body, or turn
of a computerized landscape more your impromptu compositions into
of their work and lives. A large sound in the “Future Music
map of Vienna from the beginning Blender.” A CD is prepared for it
of the nineteenth century marks if one wants to take the music
all 68 apartments where Beethoven home.
once lived as well as the
surrounding woods and spa resorts For the serious music lover one
where he spent the summers. A can explore the Vienna
“virtual Vienna” gives visitors Philharmonic Museum (which
the chance to savor the city’s celebrates the history of the
musical haunts. One section, “the 150-year-old orchestra) and tour
Exodus”, is an artistic reminder Genius Loci, a permanent
of the musicians who were forced exhibition with documents and
into exile or murdered by the memorabilia from the lives of
Nazis. Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven,
Schubert, Johann Strauss, Mahler,
One can poke his/her head into a and Schönberg.
device that looks like a salon
hairdryer, sing into the The House of Music also has a
microphone, and view images that café and a collection of shops
are harmonious or discordant where you can buy instruments,
according to the person’s singing sheet music, recordings, and
skills. other musical wares.
About the Author:
Anil Gupta recommends that you visit http://www.bookings.be/city/at/vienna.html?aid=305255 for more information on Vienna hotels.
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