In 1966, the conductor arrived in Vienna with a mission: to restore Gustav Mahler’s place in 20th-century music.

The Vienna Philharmonic sound is so sumptuous it takes a rare conductor to resist its advances. A Salonen or Dudamel is just as likely to get the Viennese to try something new. Yannick Nézet ...

Since 1933, the Vienna Philharmonic has selected a new guest conductor each season: Herbert von Karajan, Karl Böhm, Leonard ...

Vienna hadn’t heard such music in years—and it was all because the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s two conductors hated each other so. Wilhelm Furtwängler had the edge in prestige but ...

The other day I read about the ignoring by the Austrian authorities of events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the defeat ...

The thunderous sounds we hear in a concert hall — summoned with the subtlest flick of a conductor’s wrist — are the result of painstaking trial, error and trust.

Dynamic conductor Gustavo Dudamel’s passionate music-making ... This season he returns to the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic, along with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France ...

Founded in 1842, the Vienna Philharmonic is a world-renowned musical institution admired for generations. Through its Academy, the Vienna Philharmonic nurtures the next generation of musicians ...

Abbado studied at the Mozarteum and the Vienna Academy of Music ... a mystery why he should want to dally as an assistant conductor at Philharmonic Hall. “He’ll spend a year just watching ...