Poll
Question:
... the most impact?
Option 1: Mozart
votes: 4
Option 2: Schubert
votes: 0
Option 3: Haydn
votes: 2
Option 4: Bruckner
votes: 1
Option 5: Mahler
votes: 2
Option 6: Strauss II
votes: 1
Option 7: Freud
votes: 3
Option 8: Schrödinger
votes: 2
Option 9: Porsche
votes: 0
Option 10: Zweig
votes: 0
Option 11: Arnold
votes: 3
Option 12: other
votes: 0
Option 13: Adolf Hit Ler
votes: 10
Option 14: Schönberg (added)
votes: 2
Which Austrian has had the most impact?
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Mozart and Mahler weren't Austrians. Salzburg was not part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during Mozart's lifetime. Mahler was a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but he was Bohemian German, not Austrian. Not any more than Dvořák or Janáček or Bartók.
Quite true but irrelevant, as Arnie is the clear choice.
Quote from: Wanderer on March 10, 2008, 01:13:11 AM
Quite true but irrelevant, as Arnie is the clear choice.
I agree, definitely Arnie Schoenberg. But why aren't Albie Berg and Antie Webern on the list? ;D
Clearly, it's Hit Ler.
His bombs and racial policies had the greatest impact of all, surely?
Quote from: M forever on March 09, 2008, 10:59:37 PM
Salzburg was not part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during Mozart's lifetime.
OTOH, there was no such thing as an Austro-Hungarian Empire during Mozart's lifetime.
Voted for Johann Strauss II just to mess with everybody's minds. :)
Quote from: Brian on March 10, 2008, 08:15:50 AM
Voted for Johann Strauss II just to mess with everybody's minds. :)
obviously, without Strauss, you won't have that lovely segment on 2001 a space odyssey, i'll vote for him too!
I vote for Steve Irwin
I added Schönberg.
Quote from: Gustav on March 10, 2008, 09:35:15 AM
obviously, without Strauss, you won't have that lovely segment on 2001 a space odyssey, i'll vote for him too!
That's Richard...
Quote from: Figaro on March 10, 2008, 10:15:53 AM
That's Richard...
Actually, its both! :D --The
Blue Danube is used in the opening scene immediately following the ape-men/monolith scene) and then of course, the opening of
Zarathustra.
Quote from: bwv 1080 on March 10, 2008, 09:52:14 AM
I vote for Steve Irwin
Irwin wasn't Austrian. Melbourne was not part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during Irwin 's lifetime.
Quote from: head-case on March 10, 2008, 11:08:23 AM
Irwin wasn't Austrian. Melbourne was not part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during Irwin 's lifetime.
In that case I will just vote for FA Hayek, or perhaps Charlemagne
I hope he gets out of the frame before pulling the trigger.
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The one and only : Schnitzel.
Quote from: Que on March 10, 2008, 11:48:14 AM
Don't know if I find your new avatar very agreeable. ::)
Q
You don't like his books?
Quote from: Que on March 10, 2008, 01:10:27 PM
Is that a picture of an author? Anyway, I was refering to the picture as such.
Q
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Quote from: pjme on March 10, 2008, 11:56:03 AM
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The one and only : Schnitzel.
This dish, consisting of a thin slice of meat coated in breadcrumbs and fried comes from the times of the Romans and is a common dish in many countries.
Why, Schönberg of course!
I guess it is a no brainer really. Hitler, in that how he directed events meant we may have lost several Schönbergs or thinkers of the standing of Freud. But whereas, in two hundred years Hitler will have been consigned to the history books; Freud's thinking will still form the basis for much influential thinking. I want to vote Freud, but it has to he the H man.
Mike
There are so many other famous Austrians who aren't listed in this poll. I would add these as well:
1. Hedy Lamarr, actress; also co-inventor of spread spectrum radio technology.
2. Fritz Lang, film director.
3. Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, father of psychoanalysis.
4. Gregor Mendel, pioneer of genetics.
Now if I had to choose one from the existing poll choices I would probably go with Franz Josef Haydn, the father of the symphony.
It is sad that the only mediocre austrian mentioned in the list was the one who had a greatest impact: Adolf Hitler.
I would like to mention two great Austrians: one of the greatest poets in German language, Georg Trakl, and one of the greatest philosophers of the century, Karl Popper.
Was Salazar an ally?
Quote from: Hollywood on March 10, 2008, 11:56:24 PM
1. Hedy Lamarr, actress; also co-inventor of spread spectrum radio technology.
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That's
Hedley!!
Funny austrians.
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