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The sound of music in Vienna's cinemas, 1910–1930

Claus TieberAnna K Windisch

pp. 84-102

Abstract

This comment, entitled Wünsche eines Kino-Stammgastes (desires of a movie theater patron) and printed in an Austrian trade paper in 1915, aptly describes a number of issues related to the musical repertoire heard in Vienna's cinemas: exorbitant waltzes and marches, interspersed by opera and operetta arias, Wienerliederz and pieces from the "classical" canon had accounted for a considerable portion of the musical repertoire used in film accompaniment up to that point. However, despite this notion of a relatively small variety of typical Viennese music played in the city's movie theaters the actual modes of musical accompaniment display a diverse and differentiated picture of the cinema sound in the "city of music" during the silent film era.

Publication details

Published in:

Tieber Claus, Windisch Anna K (2014) The sounds of silent films: new perspectives on history, theory and practice. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 84-102

DOI: 10.1057/9781137410726_6

Full citation:

Tieber Claus, Windisch Anna K (2014) „The sound of music in Vienna's cinemas, 1910–1930“, In: C. Tieber & A.K. Windisch (eds.), The sounds of silent films, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 84–102.