Johann Strauss II

Johann Strauss II (German: "Johann Strauss (son)"; in English also Johann Strauss the Younger, Johann Strauss Jr., Johann Sebastian Strauss) (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899) was an Austrian composer known especially for his waltzes, such as The Blue Danube. The (in German) often used "Strauß" form is wrong, since he always wrote his name with "ss" and never with "ß". Son of the composer Johann Strauss I, and brother to the composers Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss, Johann II was the most famous of the family. According to the The Blue Danube Songfacts, his father did not wish him to become a composer, but rather a banker. Nevertheless, Strauss Junior studied the violin secretly as a child and when his father discovered his son secretly practicing the instrument one day, he gave him a severe whipping, saying that he was going to beat the music out of the boy. Fortunately, this did not discourage the budding musician. He was known in his lifetime as "the waltz king," and the popularity of the waltz in Vienna through the 19th century is due in large part to him. He became the "waltz king" by his revolutionary elevation of the waltz from lowly peasant dance to sparkling entertainment for the royal Hapsburg court. Not only did he revolutionize the waltz, but his work enjoyed greater fame than his predecessors such as his father and Josef Lanner. Some of his polkas and marches are also well known, as is his operetta Die Fledermaus. More recently, there is a concert broadcast on television and radio to many countries worldwide "The New Year Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra". This concert is a celebration of the music of the Strauss family, and has also become a traditional way to see in the New Year. This concert is played live each year in the morning of January 1 in Vienna, Austria. Due to the worldwide popularity of the event, which is always a packed venue, tickets are drawn by lottery if you want to attend the concert. Each year at this concert a different conductor is chosen and some pick a general theme of that days concert. Among such themes of recent years were the launching of the European currency the Euro, and the expansion of the European Union. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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The Blue Danube
Also sprach Zarathustra
An der schönen blauen Donau, Op.314
An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314
Die Fledermaus Overture
The Beautiful Blue Danube
Pizzicato Polka
Die Fledermaus: Overture
Tales from the Vienna Woods
The Blue Danube Watlz Op 314
Radetzky March
Blue Danube Waltz
Die Fledermaus - Overture
The Blue Danube, Op. 314
the blue danube waltz, op. 314
Die Fledermaus (The Bat), Overture (RV 503-1)
An der schönen blauen Donau, Walzer, op. 314
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
An der schönen blauen Donau
Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka, Op. 214
Frühlingsstimmen, Op. 410
Emperor Waltz
On the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz, Op. 314
Marcha Radetzky, Op.228
On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314
Voices of Spring, Op. 410
The Blue Danube Waltz
On The Beautiful Blue Danube - Waltz, Op.314 (Extract)
Tritsch Tratsch Polka
Emperor Waltz, Op. 437
Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka, Op. 214 Triqui Traqui - Arr. by Paul Desenne
Strauss Jr., J.: Frühlingsstimmen, Op. 410 (Excerpt)
Persischer Marsch, op. 289
Vienna Blood
Wiener Blut (Vienna Blood), Waltz For Orchestra, Op. 354 (RV 354)
Thunder and Lightning Polka
On the Beautiful Blue Danube
Rosen aus dem Süden, Op. 388
On the Beautiful Blue Danube - Waltz op. 314
An Der Schönen Blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube), Op. 314
Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka, op.214
Perpetuum Mobile, Op. 257
Annen-Polka, Op. 117
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op. 214
Perpetuum Mobile
Voices of Spring
Unter Donner und Blitz, Polka, Op. 324
Blue Danube
Radetzky Marsch
The Blue Danube (Reprise)

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