Waltz Symphony

Johann Strauss never wrote a symphony, but the 500 dances he produced earned him the sobriquet “demonic composing machine”. And with his admiration for technical progress he might have welcomed the real thing. Plans are now afoot for a new waltz symphony by a man-machine collective. Johann Strauss 2025 Wien and the Ars Electronica Futurelab are inviting four young composers to collaborate with an AI-based composition system (see following pages). The same programme also features the first performance of an all-human waltz symphony by Roland Neuwirth.

Accelerationen
Waltzes, op. 234

Scho laa, fü‘s au!
A Viennese Waltz Symphony

A new waltz symphony