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The Blue Danube. " The Blue Danube " is the common English title of " An der schönen blauen Donau ", Op. 314 (German for "By the Beautiful Blue Danube "), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866. Originally performed on 15 February 1867 [1] [2] at a concert of the Wiener Männergesang-Verein (Vienna Men's Choral ...
The Blue Danube, Op. 314, waltz by Austrian composer Johann Strauss the Younger, created in 1867. The work epitomizes the symphonic richness and variety of Strauss’s dance music, which earned him acclaim as the “waltz king,” and it has become the best-known of his many dance pieces. The Blue Danube was originally written as a choral piece ...
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May 30, 2023 · Definition. Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), aka Strauss the Younger, was an Austrian composer best known for his waltzes such as The Blue Danube. Famed throughout Europe and the United States in his own lifetime, Strauss was known as the 'Waltz King', but he also wrote many polkas, marches, quadrilles, and operettas such as Die Fledermaus and ...
Strauss recalled a poem by Karl Isidor Beck (1817-79). Each stanza ends with the line: ‘By the Danube, beautiful blue Danube’. It gave him the inspiration and the title for his new work – although the Danube could never be described as blue and, at the time the waltz was written, it did not flow through Vienna.
