Editing Vienna New Year's Concert (section)

==Recent history==
In 2021, the Vienna New Year's Concert took place without an audience, for the first time in the concert's history, because of public-health restrictions during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000122874280/neujahrskonzert-der-wiener-philharmoniker-begruesst-ohne-publikum-2021 | title=Neujahrskonzert 2021 ohne Publikum, 2022 mit Barenboim |work=[[Der Standard]]| date=2021-01-01 | access-date=2021-01-04}}</ref> The 2022 concert with [[Daniel Barenboim]] featured a live audience limited to 1,000 patrons,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000132260487/philharmoniker-barenboim-und-etwas-polizeischutz | title=Neujahrskonzert: Virtuoses in der Tonart der Versöhnung |newspaper=[[Der Standard]]|location=Vienna| author=Ljubiša Tošić | date=2022-01-01 | access-date=2022-01-17}}</ref> and the ORF radio transmission on [[Ö1]] featured {{ill|Eva Teimel|de}} as presenter, the first female radio presenter for ORF in the history of the concert.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.heute.at/s/corona-orf-tauschte-kurzfristig-neujahrskonzert-team-100181942 | title=Corona bei Neujahrskonzert – ORF musste improvisieren |newspaper={{ill|Heute (Austrian newspaper)|de|Heute (österreichische Zeitung)|lt=Heute}}|location=Vienna| date=2022-01-01 | access-date=2022-01-17}}</ref>

The 2023 concert featured the Vienna Girls Choir (Wiener Chormädchen) in its first-ever appearance in the concert, the first female choir ever to participate in the concert.<ref>{{cite news | title=Neujahrskonzert mit Franz Welser-Möst: Knapp am Klimaprotest vorbei! | url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000142218381/neujahrskonzert-mit-franz-welser-moest-knapp-am-klimaprotest-vorbei | work=Der Standard | author=Ljubiša Tošić | date=2023-01-01 | access-date=2023-01-02}}</ref> The 2025 concert included the "Fernandus-Walzer" of [[Constanze Geiger]], in an orchestration by Wolfgang Dörner, the first music by a female composer ever programmed in the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Day concert.<ref name="Presse2024">{{cite news| author= | title=Philharmoniker spielen bei Neujahrskonzert erstmals Komposition einer Frau | url=https://www.diepresse.com/18979387/philharmoniker-spielen-bei-neujahrskonzert-erstmals-komposition-einer-frau | work=Die Presse | date=2024-12-18 | access-date=2025-01-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | author=Rebecca Schmid | title=A Child Star of the 19th Century Gains New Fame in the 21st | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/arts/music/composer-constanze-geiger.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date=2024-12-23 | access-date=2025-01-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | author=Ljubiša Tošić | title=Muti über erste Komponistin beim Neujahrskonzert: "Es ist ein tolles Stück!" | url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000250944/neujahrskonzert-2025-als-friedensbotschaft-von-wien-in-die-welt | work=Der Standard | date=2024-12-28 | access-date=2024-12-30}}</ref>