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The First Viennese School is a name mostly used to refer to three classical music composers who wrote in the classical music era late eighteenth century in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
, Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
 and Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
. Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
 is sometimes, but rarely, added to the list.

The term was created retrospectively, and purely as a result of the name 'Second Viennese School
Second Viennese School

The Second Viennese School is the term generally used in English language-speaking countries to denote the group of composers that comprised Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils and close associates in early 20th century Vienna, Austria, where, with breaks, he lived and taught between 1903 and 1925....
' having become attached to the group of composers connected with Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School....
 in the Vienna of the early twentieth century.

Whilst, Schubert apart, these composers certainly knew each other (with Haydn and Mozart even being occasional chamber-music partners), there is no sense in which they were engaged in a collaborative effort in the sense that one would associate with 20th century 'schools' such as the Second Viennese School, or Les Six
Les Six

Les Six is a name, inspired by The Five, given in 1923 by critic Henri Collet in an article titled ?Les cinq Russes, les six Fran?ais et M. Satie? to a group of six composers working in Montparnasse whose music is often seen as a reaction against Richard Wagner and Impressionist Music....
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The First Viennese School is a name mostly used to refer to three classical music composers who wrote in the classical music era late eighteenth century in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
, Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
 and Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
. Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
 is sometimes, but rarely, added to the list.

The term was created retrospectively, and purely as a result of the name 'Second Viennese School
Second Viennese School

The Second Viennese School is the term generally used in English language-speaking countries to denote the group of composers that comprised Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils and close associates in early 20th century Vienna, Austria, where, with breaks, he lived and taught between 1903 and 1925....
' having become attached to the group of composers connected with Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School....
 in the Vienna of the early twentieth century.

Whilst, Schubert apart, these composers certainly knew each other (with Haydn and Mozart even being occasional chamber-music partners), there is no sense in which they were engaged in a collaborative effort in the sense that one would associate with 20th century 'schools' such as the Second Viennese School, or Les Six
Les Six

Les Six is a name, inspired by The Five, given in 1923 by critic Henri Collet in an article titled ?Les cinq Russes, les six Fran?ais et M. Satie? to a group of six composers working in Montparnasse whose music is often seen as a reaction against Richard Wagner and Impressionist Music....
. Nor is there any significant sense in which one composer was 'schooled' by another (in the way that Berg and Webern were taught by Schoenberg), though it is true that Beethoven for a time received lessons from Haydn.

Attempts to extend the 'First Viennese School' so as to include such later figures as Anton Bruckner
Anton Bruckner

Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known primarily for his symphony, mass , and motets. His symphonies are often considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romantic music because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length....
, Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
, and Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler was a Bohemian-born Austrian composer and conducting. He was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day....
 are merely journalistic, and never encountered in academic musicology.

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