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Josef Strauss. Josef Strauss (20 August 1827 – 22 July 1870) was an Austrian composer . He was born in Mariahilf (now Vienna ), the son of Johann Strauss I and Maria Anna Streim, and brother of Johann Strauss II and Eduard Strauss. His father wanted him to choose a career in the Austrian Habsburg military. He studied music with Franz ...
Johann Baptist Strauss II (German: [ˈjoːhan bapˈtɪst ˈʃtʁaʊs]; 25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (German: Johann Strauß Sohn), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas as well as a violinist.
Johann Strauss I, 1835 lithograph by Josef Kriehuber. Johann Baptist Strauss I (German: [ˈjoːhan bapˈtɪst ˈʃtʁaʊs]; 14 March 1804 – 25 September 1849), also known as Johann Strauss Sr., the Elder or the Father (German: Johann Strauß Vater), was an Austrian composer of the Romantic Period.
Revealing the origins of the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert, Lang considers how Strauss was appropriated as a National Socialist icon in the 1930s and 1940s, and explores the Strauss family's Jewish ancestry, along with the infamous forgery of paperwork about their lineage during the 1940s.
- Zoë Alexis Lang
- 2014
Actually Josef Strauss, brother of the “Waltz King” Johann Strauss had taken up the bourgeois profession of an engineer and harbored no ambitions to become involved professionally in music. But when his musician brother fell severely ill in 1853, and his physicians orderedn him to take a half-year pause, the inexperienced Josef Strauss had to the leadership of the famous ...
(1) Johann (Baptist) Strauss (I), violinist, conductor, and composer, known as “The Father of the Waltz”; b. Vienna, March 14, 1804; d. there, Sept. 25, 1849. He was born into a humble Jewish family of Hungarian descent.
Apr 10, 2024 · Johann Strauss I, one of the principal composers of Viennese waltzes. His works are remarkable for their rhythmic verve and charm of melodic design, and they represent the style of Viennese dance music at its best. His son, Johann Strauss II, was also a composer, famous for writing The Blue Danube.
