Vienna metamorphoses

The article focuses on the search for a new language in art and literature as well as some Viennese influences that came to the fore in various fields of art and science at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Waltz was a symbol of Viennese culture, and was largely responsible for the image of the beautiful, dancing Vienna of the 19th century right up to the First World War. Its transformation clearly shows all the changes that faced Austrian culture at the turn of the century. This was manifested in the work of composers who, despite their non-Austrian origin, experienced strong Viennese influences, e.g. R. Strauss, M. Ravel. Waltz turned out to be the measure of things that highlighted new trends. The search for a language is one of the central issues of the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Despite its long-lasting tradition, the Viennese waltz could not resist the trend for change. The choreographic poem Waltz by M. Ravel became the symbol of the new picture of the world

Art · Art history · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Waltz · Central European national history · European Linguistics and Anthropology · History · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy