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The Blue Danube. For other uses, see Blue Danube (disambiguation). " 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.
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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.
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J Strauss II made his American debut in Boston on June 17, 1872, conducting The Blue Danube for the World Peace Jubilee. For the occasion, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, an Irish bandmaster, assembled an orchestra of 2000 and a choir of 20,000.
