Vienna, Viennese Slavs, musical culture, networking, music

Vienna in the sense of “Musikstadt Wien” is primarily an association for musical German-language phenomena such as Hofoper, Wiener Philharmoniker, Universal Edition Mozart, Bruckner, Schönberg, Zerha, etc. Until 1918, however, Vienna was a city with a Slavic enclave of about 300,000 people, consisting mainly of Czechs and Moravians. There was intensive cooperation between representatives of the Slavic nations of the Habsburg monarchy and of the Slavic nations outside the monarchy. The local Slavic societies of various character (for example, academic, working class, social and religious), as well as the purely musical ones, generated a number of musical activities (sometimes amateur, at other times professional). Their impact was not only local, but often also influenced the development of musical culture in their homeland. The aim of the study is to focus on the societies’ activities in terms of mutual cooperation, to describe their activities in more detail and to document not only the musical form of “Slavic reciprocity”, but also controversial topics. In addition, the study aims to point out that the image of the Slavic musical Vienna was not only made up of individuals, but also of a network of societies.