Legal notice
Information under § 5 of the Austrian E-Commerce Act, § 14 of the Commercial Code and § 25 of the Media Act.
Last updated: 31 October 2026
Service provider and media owner
- Company
- Beethoven Conservatory of Vienna GmbH
- Legal form
- limited liability company (GmbH), registered in Vienna
- Address
- Mühlgasse 28–30, 1040 Vienna, Austria
- Phone
- +43 1 367 37 17
- office
@beethovengroup.at ; competitions: golden_lyre_ competition @beethovengroup.at - Company register
- FN 546524 m, Commercial Court of Vienna
- VAT ID
- ATU76412026
- Managing director
- Hon. Prof. (UA) Siranush Galoyan-Tkachenko
- Joint authorised officer
- Vaagn Tkachenko-Galoyan
- Business purpose
- Conservatory of music, music school, art school, private school, cultural education, performing arts and related services, retail, publishing (as entered in the company register)
- Chamber
- Vienna Economic Chamber; trade groups for leisure and sports businesses and for trade
- Trade authority
- Municipal District Office for Vienna’s 4th and 5th districts
- Professional law
- Austrian Trade Regulation Act 1994 (Gewerbeordnung), ris.bka.gv.at
Golden Lyre
Golden Lyre is a brand of Beethoven Conservatory of Vienna GmbH. The competitions and the festival are organised by the Vienna Beethoven Group, the shared name of the company’s institutions; it is not a separate legal entity.
Disclosure under § 25 Media Act
Media owner: Beethoven Conservatory of Vienna GmbH, Mühlgasse 28–30, 1040 Vienna
Represented by: managing director Hon. Prof. (UA) Siranush Galoyan-Tkachenko; joint authorised officer Vaagn Tkachenko-Galoyan
Ownership: Hon. Prof. (UA) Siranush Galoyan-Tkachenko holds 100% of the shares and voting rights.
Editorial line: information about the Golden Lyre competitions, festival and summer academy. The website has no party-political orientation.
Image credits
Photos of competitions, concerts and jury: Vienna Beethoven Group.
Golden lyre and stage: 3D rendering by ORT301 based on the Golden Lyre mark.
- Burg Plankenstein from the south-east: white walls, towers and red roofs above wooded hills: C. Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Burg Plankenstein amid the green of the Mostviertel, hills and fields beyond: Christian Jansky, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- The western gate tower of Burg Plankenstein with flowering shrubs: BSonne, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Liability for content and links
We maintain this content with care. Dates and conditions may change; the regulations in their current version are binding. The operators of linked websites are solely responsible for their content.
Copyright
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