Vienna
20
January 2027

Tales from Vienna

Welcome to The Arts Society Welwyn Garden
Wednesday, January 20, 2027 - 10:30
The Hawthorne Theatre
Campus West Welwyn Garden City AL8 6BX
Online Event

With musical excerpts and sumptuous illustrations, this lecture brings Vienna in its heyday to life.

Mozart, Haydn, Gluck, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, Mahler, Bruckner, Schoenberg – each of these musical geniuses lived and worked in Vienna. The city’s proximity to nature, its politics and its burgeoning middle classes were all factors in its cultural blossoming, but most important was its location at the heart of the Habsburg Empire and the "wine, women and song" philosophy of the Viennese. With musical excerpts and sumptuous illustrations, this lecture brings Vienna in its heyday to life.

Emma Johnson
With 30 CDs to her name, Emma Johnson is one of the few clarinettists to have performed as a soloist all over the world. She also enjoys giving talks about music - Woodwind Wizardry and The Poet John Miltonwere both broadcast by BBC radio and she has lectured about composers Gerald Finzi and Malcolm Arnold for the internet company Tonebase, as well as about Schubert and Brahms for Martin Randall Travel. Johnson studied Music and English at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, where she was the first woman to be made an Honorary Fellow. She was honoured by the Queen with an M.B.E. in 1996. Her charity, the Emma Johnson Music Foundation, gives workshops in primary schools to introduce children to instrumental music