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  1. Apr 2, 2014 · 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...

  2. Richard Georg Strauss ( German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈʃtʁaʊs]; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. [1] .

  3. Apr 10, 2024 · Johann Strauss II (born October 25, 1825, Vienna, Austria—died June 3, 1899, Vienna) was known as “the Waltz King,” a composer famous for his Viennese waltzes and operettas. Strauss was the eldest son of the composer Johann Strauss I. Because his father wished him to follow a nonmusical profession, he started his career as a bank clerk.

  4. 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.

  5. www.encyclopedia.com › people › literature-and-artsStrauss | Encyclopedia.com

    People. Literature and the Arts. Music: History, Composers, and Performers: Biographies. Strauss. views 2,294,530 updated May 29 2018. Strauss, family of celebrated Austrian musicians: (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.

  6. Aug 11, 2023 · Richard Strauss (1864-1949) was a German conductor and composer of both innovative late-Romantic and Modernist music. He is best known for his symphonic poems and operas like Salome and Elektra, both of which caused a sensation.

  7. Richard Strauss in 1938. The table below shows an incomplete list of compositions by Richard Strauss . Catalogues[edit] Only 88 compositions by the German composer Richard Strauss (1864–1949) have been assigned opus numbers; these numbers are shown in the table below in the column "Op."

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