Abstract
From the experience of my journey through Europe and America last year, I have been interested in the reflection about the relation between music of every country and its background or environment. Here I would mention the Viennese style of music and describe its most conspicuous characteristics as high degree of orderliness and refinement. Such characteristics, of course, has been nourished by the ecclesiastical and aristocratic patronage in this city for long years, but it seems to be necessary to add the recognition that Vienna has maintained the position as boader city. So early as the pre-historic age, there inhabited Celtics, afterwards Romans came from the south, Germans from the northwest, Slavs, Huns and Magyars from the east. Other things aside, from the cultural point of view, concurence of different elements necessitated harmony and order. It is obvious that the music of Vienna, the expression of the citizens' emotional life, can be said to have a style of so high degree of orderliness and refinement.
