Connected with the Viennese piano manufacturer Bösendorfer, it was opened in 1872, and many famous musicians performed there.

The concert hall was created in the former riding stables of Palais Liechtenstein, Herrengasse [de], the location of the sale-rooms of the company, and the home of Ludwig Bösendorfer (1835–1919), son of the founder Ignaz Bösendorfer and inheritor of the business.

Among the performers were Eugen d'Albert, Ferruccio Busoni, Fritz Kreisler, Franz Liszt, Ignaz Paderewski, Max Reger, Anton Rubinstein, Pablo Sarasate and Hugo Wolf.

[1][3] In November 1983, a new concert hall for chamber music, seating 150, was opened in the company's factory building in Graf Starhemberggasse in Wieden, where pianos had been made since 1870.

In that year a venue for concerts and other events at Mozarthaus Vienna, in a Baroque vault, was named Bösendorfer-Saal, by arrangement with the Bösendorfer company.