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58 unusual facts about Vienna


Alan M. Davis

He has held industry positions at GTE (a Director of R&D at GTE Communication Systems in Phoenix, Arizona; and Director of the Software Technology Center at GTE Laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts), BTG (Vice President in Vienna, Virginia), and Omni-Vista (President in Colorado Springs, Colorado).

Aloys Blumauer

Aloys Blumauer, also known as Alois Blumauer or Johannes Aloysius Blumauer, (21 or 22 December 1755 Steyr - 16 March 1798 Vienna) was an Austrian poet.

Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein

Aloys married Karoline Gräfin von Manderscheid-Blankenheim (Köln, 14 November 1768 - Vienna, 11 June 1831) in Feldsberg on 15 November/16 November 1783.

Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein

Aloys married Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau (Vienna, 8 August 1813 – Vienna, 5 February 1881) on 8 August 1831 in Vienna.

Aloys Pennarini

Aloys Pennarini, also spelled Alois Pennarini, was born Aloys Federler on June 27, 1870 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.

Anatol Rapoport

He started studying music in Chicago and continued with piano, conducting and composition at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik where he studied from 1929 to 1934.

Animal testing on non-human primates

A veterinary toxicologist employed as a study director at Covance in Vienna, Virginia, from 2002 to 2004, told city officials in Chandler, Arizona, that Covance was dissecting monkeys while the animals were still alive and able to feel pain.

Archibald Boyd

On the continent during the autumn of 1882, Boyd met with an accident at Vienna, from the effects of which he never fully recovered.

Beč

Vienna, the capital of Austria, in the Serbo-Croatian (Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, Montenegrin) language.

Bernhard Pez

Having studied the classical languages, he was made professor in the Melk monastery school in 1704, and in the same year went to the University of Vienna, where he studied theology.

Blasius Kozenn

After this he traveled to Vienna, where he studied mathematics, physics, and natural history at the University of Vienna, passing his teaching exams in these subjects with distinction.

Bob Brower

Brower attended James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia and graduated in 1978.

Bojidara Kouzmanova

She studied at the Ljubomir Pipkov Music High School in Sofia and at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

Camillo Sitte

Camillo Sitte (17 April 1843, Vienna – 16 November 1903 in Vienna) was a noted Austrian architect, painter and city planning theoretician with great influence and authority of the development of urban construction planning and regulation in Europe.

Carl Gangolf Kayser

Carl Gangolf Kayser was enrolled in the sculpture class of the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna and in that of Munich.

Christopher Wrench

Wrench attended Brisbane Grammar School, the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and undertook postgraduate studies in Vienna at the Vienna Conservatorium and then at the Hochschule für Musik (with Michael Radulescu).

Connie Francis Sings Award Winning Motion Picture Hits

In April 1962, Connie Francis was working mostly in Europe, recording several German language songs at Austrophon Studio, located in the basement of the Konzerthaus in Vienna, and shooting her on-location scenes for the Motion Picture Follow the Boys at the French and Italian Riviera.

Einmal komm' ich wieder

The song's composer, Werner Scharfenberger, also conducted the recording which took place March 15, 1961, at Austrophon Studio, located in the basement of Vienna's Konzerthaus.

Ephraim Lópes Pereira d'Aguilar, 2nd Baron d'Aguilar

Ephraim Lópes Pereira d'Aguilar (born 1739 in Vienna - died 1802 in London) was the second Baron d'Aguilar, a Barony of the Holy Roman Empire.

Gerd Kaminski

Gerd Kaminski (* 14 December 1942 in Vienna) is an Austrian legal scholar and an expert in Chinese affairs.

Gmünd, Lower Austria

The development of the town, first mentioned in a 1208 deed, was decisively pushed by the inauguration of the Emperor Franz Joseph Railway from Vienna to Prague in 1869.

Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg

In 1871 he removed to Innsbruck; in 1873 he was appointed professor at the university of Vienna, and here he was historical tutor to the crown prince Rudolph.

Isidore Konti

Isidore Konti (July 9, 1862 – January 11, 1938) was a Vienna-born (of Hungarian parents) sculptor.

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He began formal art studies at the age of 16 when he entered the Imperial Academy in Vienna where he studied under Edmund von Hellmer.

Jacob Potma

According to Houbraken, who listed him as the most famous pupil of Wybrand de Geest, he was born in Workum and became Kamerling or court painter for the Kurfürst of Vienna.

Jean-Henri Pape

Pape concentrated on defects in square and grand pianos caused by the structural gap between the sounding board and wrest plank allowing the hammers to strike the strings; the solution of placing actions above the strings had been imagined by Marius, then Hildebrand and finally Streicher in Vienna, but instead of levers and counterweights Pape's arrangement used a coil spring to raise the hammers quickly and with almost no effect on touch.

John Lewis Krimmel

From late 1816 to 1818, he travelled back to his home region as well as to Vienna and Salzburg, and his sketchbooks are filled with sketches of European landscapes, people, animals, and flowers.

Joseph Pramberger

Johann Joseph Pramberger, born in 1779, began making pianos in Vienna, Austria.

Josip Stritar

In 1855 he went to study in Vienna and completed his studies in 1874 after which he became an assistant teacher at Hernals Gymnasium and after 1878 professor in Josefstadt where he remained until his retirement in 1901.

Juan Francisco Pacheco y Téllez-Girón, 4th Consort Duke of Uceda

Juan Francisco Pacheco y Téllez-Girón, 4th Consort Duke of Uceda, (Madrid, Spain, 8 June 1649 – Vienna, Austria, 25 August 1718), was a Spanish noble, viceroy of Sicily and Spanish Ambassador in Rome.

Karl Hoschna

Hoschna was born on 16 August 1876 in Kuschwarda, Bohemia, and educated in Austria at the Vienna Conservatory of Music, specializing in the oboe.

Kehl

In 1861, the first railway bridge was built and the first direct connection from Paris to Vienna was established, with locomotives being changed over in Kehl.

Leeds Philharmonic Society

As well as traditional concerts in Leeds Town Hall, the Chorus has toured and performed in many other prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall (London), Bridgewater Hall (Manchester), Symphony Hall, Birmingham, The Sage Gateshead, Franz Liszt Academy of Music(Budapest) and St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna.

Leon Presser

In 1987, Presser co-founded Compass Corporation, a software services company based in Vienna, Virginia.

Lovelight

"Lovelight" features a music video that was directed by Jake Nava and filmed in Vienna, Austria during a break from Williams' European Close Encounters Tour.

Marie Fillunger

She studied at the Vienna Conservatory from 1869-73.

Merchant International Group

Merchant International Group (MIG) was a privately owned British strategic research and corporate intelligence company with offices in London and Vienna.

Midgetville

The "Midgetville" in Vienna, Virginia, visible from the W&OD Trail, was a collection of six small cottages that were torn down in 2008.

Miguel José de Bournonville, 1st Duke of Bournoville

He became Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Spain in Versailles, France, in 1722 and in Vienna in 1726 under Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, (1685–1740).

Nikola Lazarov

Together with Yordan Milanov, he attended the 8th International Congress of Architects in Vienna in 1908.

Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists

After preliminary meetings in Berlin in 1927 and Prague in 1928, at the founding congress in Vienna in 1929 the veterans of the UVO and the student militants met in Vienna and united to form the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Paintings by Adolf Hitler

In his autobiography Mein Kampf, Hitler described how, in his youth, he wanted to become a painter, but his aspirations were ruined because he failed the entrance exam of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Paul Louis Courier

He hastily quit Vienna, escaping the formal charge of desertion because his new appointment had not been confirmed.

Postojna Gate

In modern times, the gap was crossed by the Austrian Southern Railway (Südbahn), the railway that was built between 1839 and 1857 to connect Vienna via Ljubljana to Trieste.

Radio Österreich International

The station had its headquarters and transmitters in Moosbrunn, on the outskirts of Vienna.

Robert O. Ragland

He attended Northwestern University and also earned degrees at the Academy of Music in Vienna.

Rudolf Gamsjäger

Rudolf Gamsjäger (23 March 1909, in Vienna, Austria – 28 January 1985, in Vienna, Austria), was an Austrian opera administrator.

Soil Stradivarius

The provenance of this violin includes the French luthier and collector Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, the Viennese collector Oscar Bondy, who also owned the Hellier Stradivarius of 1679.

Stojan Novaković

He was also one of the most successful and skilled Serbian diplomats, holding the post of envoy to Constantinople, Vienna and Saint Petersburg.

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He was sent as the Serbian envoy to Constantinople, considered, along with Vienna and St. Petersburg, as one of the most important posts in that period.

Svetozar Ivačković

He, like many Serbian architects of his time, was educated in Vienna, then the centre of contemporary 19th century architecture.

Teatro Massimo

Finally, on 16 May 1897, twenty-two years after the laying of the foundation stone, the third largest opera theatre, after the Palais Garnier in Paris and the K. K. Hof-Opernhaus in Vienna, was inaugurated with a performance of Verdi's Falstaff conducted by Leopoldo Mugnone.

Vienna, Georgia

It is the birthplace of the late Georgia governor George Busbee and the late Hollywood film director Vincent Sherman.

Vintage Stages Live

The concerts were filmed at the WorkPlay Theater and Studios in Birmingham, Alabama, and The Barns at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia.

Walzer aus Wien

Walzer aus Wien ("Waltzes from Vienna," titled The Great Waltz in English) is a singspiel pasticcio in three acts, libretto by Alfred Maria Willner, Heinz Reichert, and Ernst Marischka, music by Johann Strauss II (son), arranged by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Julius Bittner, first performed at the Stadttheater in Vienna on 30 October 1930.

Wheaton College Conservatory of Music

A group of students, formed into a choir and joined by a student brass ensemble, travels and performs in such cities as Budapest, London, Moscow, and Vienna, among others, depending on the year.

Yugoslav Committee

Their liaisons in the homeland were the United Yugoslav Youth, an illegal youth organization formed in 1914 in Vienna, and on the other hand the Government of the Kingdom of Serbia.

Zwardoń

Zwardoń has a rail station along the historic Galician Transversal Railway, which connects Żywiec and other Polish cities with Slovakian town of Zilina, and further on, Vienna.


1930 World Ice Hockey Championships

The 1930 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships were held between January 30 and February 10, 1930 in Chamonix, France, Vienna, Austria, and Berlin, Germany.

2001 CA-TennisTrophy

The 2001 CA-TennisTrophy was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna in Austria and was part of the International Series Gold of the 2001 ATP Tour.

465th Bombardment Wing

On two different missions – to marshalling yards and an oil refinery at Vienna on 8 July 1944 and to steel plants at Friedrichshafen on 3 August 1944 – the group bombed its targets despite antiaircraft fire and fighter opposition, being awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC) for each of these attacks.

Alexander of Courland

On 26 July 1686, he was mortally wounded in the second siege of Buda during the Ottoman wars and died shortly afterwards near Vienna.

Alexei Kornienko

In 2006, in collaboration with his wife, Elena Denisova, he recorded Wien um 1900 ("Vienna around 1900"), a CD of original violin music by Robert Fuchs, Pavel Singer and Alexander von Zemlinsk, which was issued by Gramola Vienna and brought them international recognition.

American Opera Projects

Amongst the venues and festivals where AOP productions have appeared are the Lincoln Center Festival, the Guggenheim Museum, Symphony Space, Philadelphia's Annenberg Center, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Berlin's Stükke Theater, Aleksander Fredro Teatr in Poland and the Ensemble Theater am Petersplatz in Vienna.

Beautiful World Tour 2007

However Howard Donald suffered a crack rib and a collapsed lung during this section of the show in Vienna, resulting in him missing a number of European dates and performing a restricted role in others.

Bernard Gascoigne

In 1672 Gascoigne was sent to Vienna as English envoy to conduct the negotiations for a marriage of James, Duke of York with Claudia Felicitas of Austria, daughter of Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria.

Brienz

In the 5th century BC, the Celts settled in the alpine valleys among the sources of the Rhone, the Rhine and the Danube, eventually stretching from the headwaters down to Vienna and Belgrade.

Café liégeois

However during World War I with the Battle of Liège in full swing and Vienna representing the enemy, Paris' cafés started renaming the dessert café liégeois in honour of Belgium's embattled forts.

Carmen Moral

Since then, several orchestras have entrusted her with the post of Music Director, such as the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra (Colombia), I. Frauen-Kammerorchester von Osterreich (Vienna), the Symphony Orchestra of Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul), and, for a second time, the National Symphony orchestra of Peru.

Chad Van Dixhoorn

He retains a visiting fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and has served as associate minister of Cambridge Presbyterian Church and Grace Presbyterian Church in Vienna, Virginia.

Edward Scheidt

After retiring from the CIA, Scheidt helped found an encryption company called TecSec Inc., in 1990 in Vienna, Virginia, where as of 2011 he works as Chief Scientist.

Ernst Roth

Ernst Roth (1 June 1896 – 17 July 1971) was a music publisher for Universal Edition in Vienna and Boosey & Hawkes in London, and became the company's director in 1968.

Ernst Starhemberg

Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638–1701), army commander of Vienna during the second siege of Vienna, imperial general during the Great Turkish War and President of the Hofkriegsrat

Gœrlingen

In 1314 Gœrlingen was listed among the assets of the Abbey of Lixheim, but by 1542, when fears of a further Turkish attack on Vienna prompted a general census of assets in the empire, Gœrlingen had disappeared from the Lixheim records.

Harald Haas

Haas visited the Höhere Technische Lehranstalt for information technology and networking, based at the Ungargasse school center in Vienna.

Heinrich Eduard Jacob

Jacob attended Gymnasium schools in Berlin and Vienna, obtaining his Abitur school-leaver's qualification from the Ascanian high school in Berlin, under the tutelage of the noted philosopher Otto Friedrich Gruppe.

Hermann Erhardt

Hermann Erhardt (born January 9, 1903 in Landshut, died November 30, 1958 in Vienna) was a German actor who played in more than 50 movies, among them Heimkehr and A Devil of a Woman.

House of Diehl

They are best known for their rock'n'roll-style live fashion performance, called Instant Couture, with which they've supported Sonic Youth, and staged events at New York Fashion Week; at the Life Ball in Vienna, Austria.

Ignaz Döllinger

He commenced his studies in his native town (where he took a doctorate in 1794), continuing them in Würzburg, Pavia and Vienna before returning to Bamberg.

IrfanView

--spelling & no accents per author's webpage-->, from Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, living in Vienna.

Isa Genzken

Genzken's work is included in the collections of many institutions internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Generali Foundation, Vienna; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden; and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

James Craig Annan

James Annan subsequently joined his family’s photographic business, T. & R. Annan and Sons of Glasgow, Hamilton and Edinburgh, and in 1883 went to Vienna to learn the process of photogravure from the inventor, Karel Klíč.

Josef Fahringer

He then taught at Brüx from 1907 to 1910, at Brünn from 1910 to 1913 and again at Vienna from 1918 to 1936.

Kettenbrücke-Walzer

Its title commemorated the construction of the first chain bridge over the branch of the Danube through the inner city of Sophiebrücke in Vienna.

Konstantin Danil

It was in Vienna and Munich, where he became influenced for a while by the works of classicist German painters Asmus Jacob Carstens, Joachim Christian Reinhart, Peter Fendi, Joseph Anton Koch, Gottlieb Schick and Bonaventura Genelli.

Kurt Krenn

Kurt Krenn (28 June 1936 – 25 January 2014) was an Austrian Roman Catholic prelate and Bishop who ran a seminary for priests in Sankt Pölten, near Vienna.

Machold Rare Violins

Machold had branch establishments in Vienna, Zurich (Geigenbau Machold GmbH and Cadenza AG), Alpnach (Bomalu AG), Bremen, Berlin, New York City, Aspen, Chicago, Seoul and Tokyo, buying and selling, among others, Stradivari and del Gesù violins.

Maia Chiburdanidze

She was 1st in tournaments in New Delhi (1984) and Banja Luka (1985) and in the next decade she finished 1st in Belgrade (1992), Vienna (1993) and in Lippstadt (1995).

Manfred Hausleitner

He began learning about jazz when he signed up for the jazz institute at the Konservatiorium and Highschool in Vienna, where he studied with Erich Bachtraegl for 8 years in addition with Tino Contreiras/Mexico D.F. and Damaso Gonzales/Acapulco.

Marianna Martines

The musicologist Charles Burney, visiting Vienna, found that she also could speak English.

Marxism and the National Question

"Marxism and the National Question" (Russian:Марксизм и национальный вопрос) is an article written by Joseph Stalin at the end of 1912–1913 in Vienna, at the insistence of Lenin.

Mexico and the United Nations

Mexico maintains permanent representation to the United Nations headquarters in New York City and to the other main UN agencies based in Geneva, Nairobi, Paris and Vienna.

Otto Wiener

He was born in Vienna, joined the Vienna Boys' Choir at the age of six, and started his adult career as a concert singer before making his stage debut in 1953 at Graz in the title-role of Simon Boccanegra.

Paride ed Elena

Paride ed Elena (Paris and Helen) is the third of Gluck's so-called reform operas for Vienna, following Alceste (Alcestis) and Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice), and the least often performed of the three.

Paul Procopolis

The recording of the second Chopin concerto has been identified as that of the Brazilian pianist Carmen Vitis Adnet (who lived in Vienna and was married to pianist Hans Graf) with the Vienna Symphony under Hans Swarowsky.

Petra Feriancova

Her work has been exhibited extensively, solo at ISCP (New York, 2011), House of Arts Brno (2012), Slovak National Gallery (Bratislava, 2011), Moravian Gallery (Brno, 2008), and within group institutional exhibitions at BWA (Wroclaw, 2011), Sztuki Museum Lodz (2011), Secession (Vienna, 2010), Museum of Modern Art of Saint-Etienne (2008) and many others.

Riccardo Buscarini

In 2010 he received a danceWEB scholarship for Impulstanz, Vienna's international contemporary dance festival and one of the 16 choreographic commissions of The Place Prize, sponsored by Bloomberg.

Robert Schöller

When applying to the Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts in 1968, he showed up at the interview with only two etchings which he had to borrow back from clients, and eventually was told to go and paint on his own because there was not much to teach him, but, he also was invited to join a master's class.

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

In addition he gave guest lectures and composition seminars in Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Darmstadt, Bilthoven (the Netherlands) and Buenos Aires, and from 1973 held a professorship at the Musikhochschule in Vienna.

Rudi Bass

Born in Vienna, Austria, Rudi (named Rudolf at birth) was the only child of Friedrich Bass and Auguste Erlich Bass.

Rudolf Inzinger

Born in Vienna, he was a student at the Technische Hochschule in the same city.

Rudolf Koppitz

While working in Vienna early in his career, Koppitz photographed many of the picturesque aspects of the city - St. Stephen's Cathedral, Karl's Church - and traveled to photograph Hungarian villages, fishing boats near Delft, views of Dresden and alpine landscapes.

Sachertorte

Hotel Sacher's "Original Sacher Torte" is sold at the Vienna and Salzburg locations of the Hotel Sacher, at Cafe Sacher branches in Innsbruck and Graz, at the Sacher Shop in Bolzano, in the Duty Free area of Vienna airport and via the Hotel Sacher's online shop.

United Nations Youth and Students Association of Austria

Social programs may vary from a dinner at a typical Austrian “Heurigen”, a reception at the city hall of Vienna hosted by the mayor of Vienna, a reception at the famous Spanish Riding School of Vienna, or a clubbing at a fashionable disco in Vienna.

Vladimir Rebikov

Rebikov taught and played in concerts in various parts of the Russian Empire: Moscow, Odessa, Kishinev, Yalta, as well as in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, Florence and Paris, where met Claude Debussy, Oscar Nedbal, Zdenek Needly, and others.

Werner projection

Stab-Werner refers to two originators: Johannes Werner (1466–1528), a parish priest in Nuremberg, refined and promoted this projection that had been developed earlier by Johannes Stabius (Stab) of Vienna around 1500.