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Re: Austrian Economics and classical music

Clayton — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:02:36 GMT

Prior to WWI, Vienna had become the "New York" of Europe. It was a center of philosophy, science, art, music, industry, finance. It had long been the musical nexus of Europe... in 1829, for example, the 19-year old Frederic Chopin would debut in Vienna to launch his career as a performer and composer. As you noted already, many of the big names from the classical era - Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Schubert - orbited around Vienna.

Clayton -

Re: Austrian Economics and classical music

Raoul — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:57:38 GMT

Mises loved classical music. According to Hülsmann, when Mises was in his eighties, he could still be moved to tears by a beautiful opera.

Re: Austrian Economics and classical music

SkepticalMetal — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:41:49 GMT

Neodoxy, last time I checked, the most popular genre in Austria was techno.

Re: Austrian Economics and classical music

gotlucky — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:20:47 GMT

Neodoxy, you assume that classical music is popular in Austria. Is that a priori knowledge?

Re: Austrian Economics and classical music

Neodoxy — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 03:48:00 GMT

This doesn't seem to me to be a very compelling thesis because it would not account for why it is that Austrian policy was not especially classically liberal, nor why Mises began writing in a period of very anti-liberal sentiment. If AE and classical music were correlated then it should have been an exceedingly popular school within Austria and it should have permeated into public policy and public opinion

Austrian Economics and classical music

grant.w.underwood — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:10:07 GMT

Is there a correlation between AE and classical music?

Its hard to claim any geographic location has a more illustrious history in music than the viennese music scene. With composers like mozart, haydn, beethoven, Schubert, schoenberg, and im sure im leaving out other major ones, was there something in Austrian society that allowed the arts to thrive and libertarian thinking?

or do we chalk it up to Menger was an anomaly and the wealthy Austrians just enjoyed music the most so they were willing to pay more than the rest of the world?