Wiener Hofburg Orchester

Wiener Hofburg Orchester
»Caprice Viennois«
20., 22. - 24. September 2025

Performers:

Wiener Hofburg Orchester
Daniel Auner, violin, conductor

The world-famous melodies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and waltzes by Johann Strauss have their origins in Vienna. They belong to this beautiful city just like St. Stephen's Cathedral or the »Heuriger« and are its cultural heritage and landmark at the same time.
The Vienna Hofburg Orchestra presents popular compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Strauss family, as well as Franz Lehár and Emmerich Kalman. In the best tradition, the orchestra is accompanied by internationally renowned opera singers and classical ballet.
The orchestra is under the direction of the young violin conductor Daniel Auner, who will also perform as a virtuoso soloist in this concert. You can look forward to a special homage to the legendary Viennese violinist Fritz Kreisler. The charming melody to »Caprice Viennois« will be played by Daniel Auner on a unique instrument by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini from the Austrian National Bank's collection of valuable stringed instruments.
Experience an evening with internationally renowned soloists and dancers – full of melodies that touch your soul, peppered with musical jokes and delivered at a high artistic level.

Wiener Hofburg Orchester
»Strauss & Mozart«
27. & 29. September 2025

Performers:

Wiener Hofburg Orchester

The world-famous melodies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and waltzes by Johann Strauss have their origins in Vienna. They belong to this beautiful city just like St. Stephen's Cathedral or the »Heuriger« and are its cultural heritage and landmark at the same time.
The Vienna Hofburg Orchestra presents the most famous works by Josef and Johann Strauss, as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Lively opera and operetta arias, as well as duets by Emmerich Kálmán and Franz Lehár complete the program. The Vienna Hofburg Orchestra was founded in 1971 when musicians from all of Vienna's major orchestra associations joined forces under Gert Hofbauer as conductor with the aim of cultivating Viennese waltz and operetta music and bringing it out into the world.
National and international radio and television productions, engagements in symphonic concerts and recordings have repeatedly ensured international recognition.
Experience an evening with internationally renowned soloists and dancers – full of melodies that touch your soul, peppered with musical jokes delivered at a high artistic level.

Place

Hofburg Palace is a palace located in Vienna, Austria, that has housed some of the most powerful people in European and Austrian history, including the Habsburg dynasty, rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire. It currently serves as the official residence of the President of Austria. It was the Habsburgs' principal winter residence, as the Schönbrunn Palace was their preferred summer residence.

The Hofburg area has been the documented seat of government since 1279 for various empires and republics.[1] The Hofburg has been expanded over the centuries to include: various residences (with the Amalienburg), the chapel (Hofkapelle or Burgkapelle), museums (the Naturhistorisches Museum & Kunsthistorisches Museum), the Imperial Library (Hofbibliothek now the Prunksaal), the treasury (Schatzkammer), the national theatre (Burgtheater), the riding school (Hofreitschule), the horse stables (the Stallburg and Hofstallungen) and the Hofburg Congress Center.

The Hofburg faces the Heldenplatz ordered under the reign of Emperor Francis Joseph, as part of what was to become a Kaiserforum that was never completed.

Numerous architects have executed work at the Hofburg as it expanded, notably the Italian architect-engineer Filiberto Luchese (the Leopoldischiner Trakt), Lodovico Burnacini and Martino and Domenico Carlone, the Baroque architects Lukas von Hildebrandt and Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach (the Reichschancelry Wing and the Winter Riding School), Johann Fischer von Erlach (the library), and the architects of the grandiose Neue Burg built between 1881 and 1913.