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A famous writer once said, \u201cAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.\u201d* Visit Vienna and discover what inexpressible sounds like. You\u2019ll find new meaning because it\u2019s overwhelming with orchestras, opera houses and choirs, including the 500-year-old Vienna Boys Choir. It\u2019s also home to some of the greatest composers who ever lived\u2014Haydn, Schubert and Strauss. And there are countless museums dedicated to music, including the popular House of Music devoted to the sweet sound of music. (Meaning actual music, not the von Trapp variety!)<\/p>\n
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Vienna\u2019s city centre is a UNESCO World Heritage site and<\/em> walker\u2019s (not to mention, waltzer\u2019s) paradise. Stop by Mozarthaus, Mozart\u2019s actual 18th<\/sup> century apartment, where he\u2019s said to have hosted lavish concerts and wild parties (that got particularly out of hand when his good friend Haydn was on the guest list.) Make your next stop at St. Stephen\u2019s Cathedral where legend has it Beethoven realized that he was deaf after seeing birds fly from the bell tower without hearing the bells. And opposite the Konzerthaus (or Concert House) is the Beethoven Memorial that was built in 1880 and funded, partially, by the proceeds of Liszt\u2019s final public performance 50 years after Beethoven\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n If you feel crotchet<\/em>-ty about classical music and prefer to keep it to a minim-<\/em>um, check out Vienna\u2019s Guglgasse Street for more modern sounds.\u00a0 It\u2019s in this industrial enclave that you\u2019ll find the Walk of Stars, Austria\u2018s version of Hollywood\u2019s Walk of Fame, with contributions from modern rockers Kim Wilde, Alice Cooper, Jamie Cullum and Suzi Quatro. You can also explore four 19th<\/sup> century gas tanks, named gasometers, which were transformed into an impressive urban center in the 1990s. One now stands as a music hall that entertains up to 3,000 music lovers at a time.<\/p>\n *Aldous Huxley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A famous writer once said, \u201cAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.\u201d* Visit Vienna and discover what inexpressible sounds like. You\u2019ll find new meaning because it\u2019s overwhelming with orchestras, opera houses and choirs, including the 500-year-old Vienna Boys Choir. It\u2019s also home to some of the greatest composers who ever Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[256,58,254,255],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teachers","tag-austria","tag-educational-travel","tag-get-to-know","tag-vienna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}