Austrian musicians

composers of the Classical period in Western art music in late-18th-century Vienna: Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven (Franz Schubert is occasionally added to the list)

group of composers comprising A. Schönberg and his pupils and associates in early 20th century Vienna, initially characterized by late-Romantic expanded tonality, later by a totally chromatic atonal expressionism, and still later by 12-tone serialism