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Jacob, H. E. Johann Strauss, Father and Son: A Century of Light Music. The Greystone Press, 1940. Johann Strauss II list of works at Classical Archives; External links. List of works by Johann Strauss Jr. at the International Music Score Library Project
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Johann Strauss: Greatest Hits. Album • The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic • 1994. 15 songs • 1 hour, 16 minutes. Play. Save to library. 1. An der schönen, blauen Donau, Op. 314 - The Blue Danube. George Szell & The Cleveland Orchestra 48K plays. 9:45.
- Who Was Johann Strauss?
- Early Years
- The Musician
- The Composer
- Later Years and Death
Johann Strauss, often referred to as Johann Strauss II, was born in 1825 in Austria. His father, Johann Strauss the Elder, was a self-taught musician who established a musical dynasty in Vienna, writing waltzes, galops, polkas and quadrilles and publishing more than 250 works. Johann the Younger went on to write more than 500 musical musical compos...
Johann Strauss, often referred to as Johann Strauss II or "the Younger," was born on October 25, 1825, in Vienna, Austria. He was the oldest son of Johann Strauss (the Elder), also a composer, but one whose reputation would eventually be eclipsed by his son's. Strauss the Elder wanted his son to follow a different career path than he himself had fo...
A year after the restaurant appearance, Strauss formed his own band and suddenly found himself competing with his father. He also began writing at this point—quadrilles, mazurkas, polkas and waltzes, which were then performed by his orchestra. He soon began receiving praise for his work and, in 1845, was awarded the honorary bandmaster position of ...
The 1860s saw Strauss hit a few touchstone moments, as he married singer Henriette Treffz in 1862 and toured in Russia and England, extending his reputation. He would soon, however, quit conducting for the most part (exceptions being engagements in New York City and Boston in 1872) to focus on writing music, turning his orchestra over to his two br...
On the heels of his American tour and his international rise, Strauss encountered his share of loss in the 1870s: His mother and brother Josef died around the same time, and his wife died of a heart attack in 1878. Strauss married two more times and remained productive right up until his final days. He was working on a ballet, Cinderella, when a re...
Apr 10, 2024 · Johann Strauss II, ‘the Waltz King,’ a composer famous for his Viennese waltzes and operettas. His most famous single composition is An der schonen blauen Donau (1867; The Blue Danube), the main theme of which became one of the best-known tunes in 19th-century music.
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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. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas ...
Apple Music Classical. The most famous member of Vienna’s dynasty of waltz composers, Johann Strauss II (1825-99) was master not only of the waltz, but an array of ballroom favorites—you may recognize the exhilarating polkas “Unter Donner und Blitz” or “Tritsch-Tratsch.”. And there’s his ever-fresh masterpiece of operetta, Die ...
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