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Painting in Austria
Gothic church art is best presented in the collection of medieval paintings in the Orangery in Vienna's Lower Belvedere. Renaissance elements first appeared in the works of the Danube school, which combined landscape and religious themes. They are included in …
Austrian literature
One of Austria's most outstanding medieval works is the Song of the Nibelungen, written around 1200 r. by an unknown poet. This epic poem tells a colorful story of passion, fidelity and revenge, taking place at the Burgundian court in Worms. The theme of this epic remained …
Franciszek Schubert
Living in years 1797-1828, he was the last of the greatest composers of the Vienna School of the Classicist period (1740-1825). Being a native Viennese, he became a restorer of the old tradition of German song (Lieder) and introduced the custom of organizing musical evenings, called Schubertiads. His skills and achievements …
Ludwig van Beethoven
This great creator (1770-1827) was born in Bonn, Germany, in a family with deep musical traditions. However, he was not a prodigy, and his genius only began to emerge in his teens. W 1787 r. Beethoven stayed …
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This composer (1756-1791) is perhaps the most famous classical music virtuoso of all time. Many other composers were worshiped by his music – Haydn considered him "the greatest composer”, and Schubert melted in delight, arguing, that "the magic of Mozart's music …
Music in Austria
Music, classical music in particular, is this field of art, which Austria is most famous for. Already in the 12th century. Vienna was known worldwide for the performances of minezingers and other traveling musicians. W 1498 r. Maximilian I. …
Zygmunt Freud
Zygmunt Freud will give birth! myself 6 house 1856 r. in Freiberg, Moravia. Three years later his father, Jewish wool merchant, will carry out! with his family to Vienna, where he lived in the district of Leopoldstadt. There Freud got all his …
Salzburg-born physicist and mathematician Christian Johann Doppler (1803-1853) observed, that the wavelengths of light and sound decrease in relation to the recipient as they approach and increase as their source moves away. This explains the change in pitch of the police siren …
A MINILEXICON OF ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE
But (should. „pan”) – superior, supervisor. Officer title in the Ottoman Empire, clerical and courtly, which both officers enjoyed, as well as governors, and even to the heads of the eunuchs and the court servants; after the proclamation of the republic, the title is purely honorific.
Now – …
Whirling dervishes
The great Turkish poet and mystic Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi was born in September 1207 r. in the city of Balkh (in northern Afghanistan). The nickname "Mevlana” his disciples gave him, and it means more or less "our great master” (arab ), to Rumi …