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The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra has announced the program for its New Year’s Concert on New Year’s Day 2026. The conductor for 2026 will be Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who will be making his first appearance.

The highlight of the 2026 program will be the work of Florence Price (1888-1953), a black American female composer. In 2025, Riccardo Muti set a precedent for female composers by taking up the works of Austrian Constanze Geiger (1835-1890) for the first time.

Price was born in Little Rock and was accepted into the prestigious New England Conservatory in Boston at the age of 14. Her Symphony No. 1 won first place in a composition competition in 1932. It premiered the following year with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, making her the first black woman to compose a symphony.

The New Year’s Concert is an annual event held by the Vienna Philharmonic every New Year’s Day at the Vienna Philharmonic’s home grounds, the Musikverein. It is a musical New Year’s card from the capital of music, featuring waltzes and polkas by the Strauss family.

　Johann Strauß II：Overtüre to the Operetta “Indigo and the Forty Thieves”
　Carl Michael Ziehrer：Donausagen. Walzer, op. 446
　Joseph Lanner：Malapou-Galoppe, op. 148
　Eduard Strauß：Brausteufelchen. Polka schnell, op. 154
　Johann Strauß II：Fledermaus-Quadrille, op. 363
　Johann Strauß I：Der Karneval in Paris. Galopp, op. 100
　Franz von Suppè：Ouvertüre zur Operette “Die schöne Galathée”
　Josephine Weinlich：Sirenen Lieder. Polka mazur, op. 13 [Arr. W. Dörner]
　Josef Strauß：Frauenwürde. Walzer, op. 277
　Johann Strauß II：Diplomaten-Polka. Polka francaise, op. 448
　Florence Price：Rainbow Waltz
　Hans Christian Lumbye：Københavns Jernbane-Damp-Galop
　Johann Strauß II：Rosen aus dem Süden (Roses from the South), Waltz, op. 388
　Johann Strauß II：Egyptischer Marsch (Egyptian March), op. 335
　Josef Strauß：Olive Branch Waltz, op. 207

PHOTO：Wiener Philharmoniker


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