Which Vienna concert is traditionally broadcast worldwide on New Year's Day, featuring music by the Strauss family?

The Vienna New Year's Concert is the annual concert traditionally broadcast worldwide on New Year's Day, featuring music by the Strauss family.

Performed by the Vienna Philharmonic at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria, the concert centers on light classical works, especially waltzes, polkas, and marches by Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, and Eduard Strauss. The program usually ends with the “Blue Danube” waltz and the “Radetzky March.”

The first concert in the modern New Year's tradition took place on January 1, 1941. Clemens Krauss conducted the early editions, and the event later became a major international television tradition.

The concert is sometimes mistaken for a New Year's Eve event because of its close association with the holiday. Its principal performance is held on the morning of January 1.