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Article: Vienna New Year Concert features Haydn's work
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- December 29, 2008
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Vienna New Year Concert features Haydn's work
VIENNA, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Austria designated 2009 as Haydn Year
to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Austrian
composer Joseph Haydn.
The 2009 Vienna New Year's Concert will perform the final
movement of Haydn's Symphony No.45 -- "Farewell Symphony."
Director of the Vienna Philharmonic Clemens Hellsberg told a
press conference on Monday that this is the first New Year's Concert
featuring Haydn's work.
This New Year's Concert will be conducted by Daniel Barenboim, a
Russian Jewish immigrant who was born in Argentina's Buenos Aires in
1942. This will be the first time for this famous pianist to conduct
the Vienna Philharmonic ...