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The music is mostly that of the Strauss family ( Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss). The flowers that decorate the Wiener Musikverein concert hall are a gift each year from the city of San Remo, Liguria, Italy.

The concert always ends with several encores after the main programme. The musicians then collectively wish the audience a happy new year, and close with Johann Strauss II's Blue Danube Waltz followed by the Radetzky-March. During this last piece, the audience claps along in time and the conductor turns to conduct them instead of the orchestra.

The concert was first performed in 1939 (paradoxically on December 31st of this year) conducted by Clemens Krauss .

1 Conductors of New Year's Concert

• Clemens Krauss , 1939, 1941-1945, 1948-1954
• Josef Krips , 1946-1947
• Willi Boskovsky, 1955-1979
• Lorin MaazelLorin Varencove Maazel (born March 6, 1930) is a conductor, violinist and composer. Maazel was born to American parents in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France and brought up in the United States. He was something of a prodigy, making his conducting debut before h, 1980-1986, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2005 (projected)
• Herbert von KarajanHerbert von Karajan ( April 5, 1908 July 16, 1989) was a conductor, one of the most prominent of the postwar period. Karajan conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for many years. Life Early years He was born in Salzburg, Austria, as Heribert von Kar, 1987
• Claudio AbbadoClaudio Abbado (born June 26, 1933) is a noted Italian conductor. Abbado was born in Milan. He studied piano at the Milan Conservatory with his father Michelangelo Abbado, and went on to study conducting with Hans Swarowsky at the Vienna Academy of Music., 1988, 1991
• Carlos KleiberCarlos Kleiber ( July 3, 1930 July 13, 2004) was an Austrian conductor. Kleiber was born in Berlin, the son of the conductor Erich Kleiber. As a boy, he moved to Buenos Aires with his father, who had resigned his post at the Berlin Opera in protest over t, 1989, 1992
• Zubin MehtaZubin Mehta (born April 29, 1936 in Bombay, India) is an internationally renowned conductor of European classical music. Zubin Mehta was born into an aristocratic Parsi family. His father Mehli Mehta was a violinist and founding conductor of the Bombay Sy, 1990, 1995, 1998
• Riccardo MutiRiccardo Muti (born July 28, 1941) is an Italian conductor best known for being the music director of Milan's La Scala opera house, a position he has held since 1986. Muti was born in Naples. In 1967, he won the Cantelli Prize for young conductors. From 1, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004
• Nikolaus HarnoncourtNikolaus Harnoncourt (born December 6, 1929) is an Austrian conductor, known for his historically accurate performances of music from the classical era and earlier. Harnoncourt at the New Year's Concert in Vienna ( Musikverein, January 1, 2003) Harnoncour, 2001, 2003
• Seiji OzawaSeiji Ozawa (born September 1, 1935) is a Japanese conductor. He is particularly noted for his interpretations of large-scale late Romantic works. He was born in Hoten ( Shenyang), Manchukuo. He studied at the Toho School of Music in Tokyo, graduating in, 2002