Vienna
Name
Vienna
Variant Names
Wien, Vienne
Province/County/State
Vienna State (state)
Nations
Austria (nation)
Descriptive Note Text
Wien is the current capital of the Rep. of Austria.
From the late 19th century to 1938, the city remained a center of high culture and later modernism. A world capital of music, the city played host to composers such as Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Richard Strauss. The city's cultural contributions in the first half of the 20th century included, amongst many, the Vienna Secession movement, psychoanalysis, the Second Viennese School, the architecture of Adolf Loos and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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