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55 albums · 1963–2022

Music of Austria, from Wienerlied and Austropop to the electronica of Vienna and today

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The Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, full of flowers and people, before the New Year's concert
Wolfgang Ambros with a guitar and arms spread on stage, two singers behind himA tenor in a red waistcoat singing in front of a seated Schrammel ensemble of violins, contraguitar, button accordion and clarinet
The Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein before the New Year's Eve concert of 2012. Photo: Michal Osmenda, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Wolfgang Ambros at the Donauinselfest in Vienna, 2006. Photo: Christoph Leeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Michael Schade and the Philharmonia Schrammeln Wien at the opening of the Wiener Festwochen, 2013. Photo: Manfred Werner (Tsui), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Austria's popular music has a dialect of its own, the Viennese of the Wienerlied and the Schrammel quartets at the Heuriger, which Roland Neuwirth, Ernst Molden and Voodoo Jürgens still sing, and it found its pop voice in the Austropop of Wolfgang Ambros, Georg Danzer, Ludwig Hirsch, Rainhard Fendrich, STS and the Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung, and then Falco, who took Rock Me Amadeus to the world; around them the Alps of Hubert von Goisern and Attwenger, the jazz of Joe Zawinul, the Vienna downtempo of Kruder & Dorfmeister and Tosca, Fennesz and Parov Stelar, the rock and indie of Naked Lunch, Kreisky, Wanda and Bilderbuch, and the pop and rap of Christina Stürmer, Conchita Wurst, Seiler und Speer, Yung Hurn and RAF Camora. The list has 55 records from 1963 to 2022, one or two by each of the names above and only a small part of what they made; the opera and the symphonies Vienna is known for, the brass bands of the villages and the schlager of the charts would each need a list of their own. About 43 hours of music, 5 days of a few records each.

By genre

Pop 18%Rock 17%Electronic 9%Other 56%
  • Pop 18%
  • Rock 17%
  • Electronic 9%
  • Other 56%

The genres named most: austrian, pop, rock, austropop, indie, electronic.

The colours of the covers

A stripe for each cover, in the colour Tidal picks from it, sorted by hue; the greys at the end.

Where the music comes from

Music from 1 country: Austria 55. The deeper the colour, the more albums: one, two to four, five to nine, ten and more.

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