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This article is simply to raise awareness of Austrias contributions to European culture, enjoy!

With Austria’s powerful imperial past, Austria has influenced central Europe and beyond in a variety of ways.

The most prominent of these is Austria’s musical contributions.
Vienna has long been a centre for Music, as many composers from all around the globe came there during the reign of the Habsburgs, as they were self declared Patrons of all the arts. This has meant that a wealth of said composers became famous, like Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Anton Bruckner, Johann Strauss Senior, Johann Strauss Junior, and Gustav Mahler. The most famous, however, is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; He is often considered to be the greatest classical composer ever, and is recognised by the associated board of Music as the most prominent romantic classical composer of all time.
As well as classical, Austria has produced many Jazz artists. These include keyboardist Josef Zawinul who helped pioneer electronic influences in jazz as well as being a notable composer in his own right.

In Architecture; Austria was the back bone of the Baroque style. Buildings all over Austria comply with this style, which makes cities like Innsbruck and Vienna popular with architecturally enthusiastic tourists from across the world.

Austria has also provided some influence in Literature, especially poetry. While no Austrian Poets have reached international fame, nationally a large culture has sprung up around them. In fact, Austria has the largest number of budding poets in the world and is expected to continue like this forever.
The Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek is famous for writing contemporary Plays, and Peter Handke is an internationally renowned novelist.

One does not usually think of Austria as a great nation cuisine wise, but there are a fair few very popular dishes that originate in Austria…
-Wiener Schnitzel
-Strudel (Notably Apfelstrudel)
-Krapfen (Doughnuts filled with apricot marmalade or custard)
-PEZ Candy
-Chocolate Balls (Usually with pictures of Mozart on the wrappers)
-Austrian Coffees (e.g. the Viennoise)
-(Due to popular demand) Red Bull energy drink

In science Austria was renowned though the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; it produced great minds like Ludwig Boltzmann, Ernst Mach, Victor Franz Hess, Christian Doppler, Lise Meitner, Erwin Schrödinger and Wolfgang Pauli.
The last three of these researched Nuclear power and were renowned Quantum Physicists. The rate of great scientific minds Austria produces has decreased recently, but Anton Zeilinger (a Present day quantum Physicist) is noted as the first scientist to demonstrate ‘Quantum teleportation’.

Philosophy is and interesting subject for many, and especially the Austrians it seems.
Austria has been home to many of the worlds greatest philosophers, like the infamous Sigmund Freud. Others include Alfred Adler, Paul Watzlawick and Hans Asperger and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl.
Paracelsus, an Austrian doctor in the middle ages, is considered to be the first person to study Medicine.

The national sport in Austria is alpine skiing and Austria shows constant dominance in the Nations-Cup. Similar sports such as snowboarding or ski-jumping are also widely popular. The most popular team sport in Austria is football.

I hope you have enjoyed reading these few facts as much as I have enjoyed compiling them, and I hope that Austria continues to prosper and strengthen both in the real world and the eWorld.