Essays Tagged: "vienna austria"

Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The movie takes place in Vienna, Austria in the 1700's. The film begins with the attempted suicide of Antonio Salieri, a cour ... ly became a popular musician and teacher in the Emperor's court. When he heard Mozart was coming to Vienna from Salzburg, he eagerly sought him out. He finally found him at a party, way from the other ...

(4 pages) 168 2 3.3 Apr/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Austria

to the north; Hungary and Slovakia to the east; and to the south Italy and Slovenia. North-East is Vienna, Austria's capital and largest city, where about a fifth of the people live.PopulationAustria ... the capital and largest city, more than one and a half-million of the Austrian population lives in Vienna. Other cities with more than 100,000 people living in them consist of Graz, Innsbruck, Linz, ...

(7 pages) 128 0 4.2 Jan/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Report on Konrad Z. Lorenz-nobel prize winner for research on genetic imprinting

INTRODUCTIONKonrad Lorenz was born in Vienna in 1903. Lorenz became interested in animals at a very young age and maintained his enthusias ... ting. Konrad Zacharias Lorenz died at the age of 85 at his home in Altenburg, 30 miles northeast of Vienna.LIFE HISTORYKonrad Lorenz was born on November 7, 1903 in Vienna, Austria. As a child, his pa ... nd paleontology, but instead followed his father's orders to study medicine. He studied medicine in Vienna, and in 1933, he earned a medical degree and a Ph.D. in zoology. He then became a professor a ...

(5 pages) 44 0 3.7 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays

Sigmund Frued.

n. Freud had two older brothers and seven other siblings. "When Freud was four, his family moved to Vienna, Austria, where Freud spent most of his life until 1983, when he was forced to flee to Englan ... e Nazi invasion"(WU,2003 par.2).At the age of 17 Freud began to study medicine at the University of Vienna. Freud graduated in 1882, and got a job at the Vienna General Hospital, specializing in neuro ...

(2 pages) 131 0 5.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Biography of Hugo Wolf

uch authors as Mrike and Goethe. Hugo Wolf lived to be forty-three and died on February 22, 1903 in Vienna, Austria. Many would say the reason for death was illness and depression which finally led to ... r footsteps. At age fifteen, Wolf met Wagner who in-turn became his idol. Wagner taught Wolf at the Vienna Conservatory. Wolf was hard to get a hold of because of his lack of discipline. Wolf fell tot ...

(2 pages) 22 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

How far did the congress of Vienna solve the problems faced by its delegates?

The Congress of Vienna was held in Vienna, Austria between September 1814 and June 1815. The congress produced short ... were sufficient and must not bare the brunt of any accusation aimed at citing that the Congress of Vienna was a failure.The Congress of Vienna had many problems to deal with. Over the course of the y ...

(5 pages) 75 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Wystan Hugh Auden

Also known as W. H. AudenBorn: February 21, 1907 in York, EnglandDied: September 28, 1973 in Vienna, AustriaEnglish-born American poet, critic, essayist, dramatist, editor, translator, and libr ... in a cottage provided by Christ Church. He died of a heart-attack after giving a poetry reading in Vienna. Auden was buried in nearby Kirchstetten.TIMELINE OF W. H. AUDEN'S CAREER1907 Born in York, E ...

(4 pages) 84 1 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

------------------------------------------------------Marie Antoinette was born November 2, 1755 in Vienna, Austria. She was the youngest and most beautiful daughter of Francis I and Maria Theresa, Em ...

(3 pages) 50 0 4.4 Oct/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Sigmund Freud

rothers and six younger siblings. When he was four or five -- he wasn't sure -- the family moved to Vienna, Austria, where he lived most of his life. Freud was a brilliant child, always at the head of ... d of his class, he went to medical school, one of the few viable options for a bright Jewish boy in Vienna those days. There, he became involved in research under the direction of a physiology profess ...

(6 pages) 157 3 4.6 Nov/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Taiwan Independence Movements since 1970

rters in Kearny, New Jersey and headquarters in Taipei (Taiwan), Tokyo(Japan), Toronto(Canada), and Vienna(Austria). WUFI publishes Tai-Dok in Taiwanese, Taiwan Chenglien in Japanese, and an English e ... ons of the Taiwanese in Japan, the United States, Canada, Brazil and Europe voluntarily gathered in Vienna and established the World Federation of Formosan Clubs.Since 1970, the independence movement ...

(2 pages) 20 0 3.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Concert Critique for Santa Clara Senior Orchestra

ernational Music Meeting in Abano Terse, Italy and the International Festival of Youth and Music in Vienna, Austria. At the festival, the Symphony won second place in the orchestra competition. During ...

(1 pages) 38 0 4.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Biography of Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)

Friedrich Hayek was born on May 8th 1899 in Vienna, Austria. His father was a physician and botanists, and he grew up in a distinguished but mod ... ut modest family. In March of 1917, he enrolled in the army to fight in World War I. He returned to Vienna in November 1918, attending the University of Vienna as a law student. Hayek was also interes ... s a law student. Hayek was also interested in economics and psychology, and he also studied them at Vienna. He received a doctorate in 1921 for law and another in 1923 for economics from the Universit ...

(3 pages) 27 0 4.3 Feb/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Economic History

Information on The Danube River

Drava, Tisza, Sava, and Prut. Among the important cities on the river, three are national capitals: Vienna (Austria), Budapest (Hungary), and Belgrade (Serbia).Economic ImportanceThe waters of the Dan ... ia and completed in 1992.Industrial use of the Danube is mainly present in the major cities, namely Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade. The irrigated areas are in the second half of the river, especially i ...

(6 pages) 23 0 3.5 Mar/2005

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Hitlers biography. Adolf hitlers life. Born,ect............

vernment worker as he had been. Hitler, however, wanted to become an artist.In 1907, Hitler went to Vienna Austria. in an attempt to fulfill his dream of becoming an artist. This attempt ended when he ... trance exam to the Academy of Fine Arts. When Hitler's mother died in 1907, he decided to remain in Vienna. He took the entrance exam a year later and failed again. He did not have steady work in Vien ...

(3 pages) 21 0 2.3 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

Why weren't the Italian revolutionaries of 1848-49 able to remove foreign influence?

y other countries took this as an example that revolutions did work. There had been a revolution in Vienna (Austria) which meant most of the Austrian troops that occupied Italy had to leave. There had ...

(3 pages) 17 0 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The Holocaust and the rise of Nazism

tranced the nation; it begins with a boy named Adolph Hitler. Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Vienna Austria to Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara. Hitler had a very difficult childhood, as ... e an artist, then an architect. He failed at both. Hitler soon found himself drifting and alone in Vienna. He could barely keep a regular job and would occasionally stay at a homeless shelter. Hitler ...

(7 pages) 164 1 4.4 Jun/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Bill Brandt-photographer-bio+study of "Perspective of Nudes"

atment for tuberculosis in a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, in the 1920s. In 1927 he traveled to Vienna, Austria, where he was taken up by another doctor. She found him a position in a portrait stu ...

(2 pages) 24 0 3.5 Jun/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

The Diary of Marie Antoinette

774: Cher Journal,Je m'appelle Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. I was born on November 2, 1755 in Vienna, Austria to wonderful parents, Francis Stephen I and Maria Theresa (Marie Antoinette Queen of ... a queen is so boring! I'm tired of spending my time in nonstop court rituals! I miss the freedom of Vienna! Euh! I'm spending less time at court. Instead, I spend it with my friends (Marie Antoinette ...

(6 pages) 26 0 4.3 Dec/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution

A Funeral In Austria

y people would not think that a funeral could be beautiful, but it can be. My husband and I were in Vienna, Austria two years ago on vacation, and we decided to visit his grandparents' gravesite. Whil ... eath is treated impressed me.First of all, the cemetery was located almost in the heart of downtown Vienna. As we approached the cemetery, my thoughts veered to, "I do not know if I want to do this."& ...

(3 pages) 9 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Untitled

itzerland. Price = $130.00 March 24- Day ten the group will leave Geneva by plane on flight 584 for Vienna, Austria. Price = $150.00 March 27- Day thirteen the group will be leaving for its final dest ... of Switzerland the German mark will be a means of money. Price in Marks = 2180.10DM - $1.00=1.69DM Vienna, Austria March 25-26 Hotel Aclon suite $400.00, $50.00 for each additional person per night. ...

(2 pages) 1032 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays