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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 ...
John J. Strauss is an American producer and writer of film and television.He has written a variety of films across numerous genres - animation, drama, comedy and more. He is best known for writing There's Something About Mary (1998), The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), and The Santa Clause 2 (2002).
Jul 11, 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The most remarkable thing about Strauss’s prodigious musical output is the breathtaking variety he achieved within narrow parameters. He inherited the waltz form as developed by his father, Johann senior, and Josef Lanner – a short introduction, usually followed by five waltzes and a coda – and gave it symphonic coherence and heady nostalgia.
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 ...
- Mark Cartwright
- Johann Strauss II was a 19th-century Austrian composer most famous for his waltzes - especially The Blue Danube - and two operettas: Die Fledermaus...
- The composers Johann Strauss II and Richard Strauss are not related.
- Some fun facts about Johann Strauss are: his father did not want him to become a musician, he was good friends with Johannes Brahms (two opposites...
Johann Strauss the Younger, the most famous and enduringly successful of nineteenth-century light-music composers, was born in Vienna on 25 October 1825. His father, Johann Strauss the Elder, was by that time well on his way of becoming Europe's uncrowned king of dance music. Indeed, it was only with Strauss senior's untimely death in 1849 that ...
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To this day, Johann Strauss, Jr remains one of the most popular composers in his native city of Vienna. In The Legacy of Johann Strauss, Zoë Alexis Lang examines how the reception of Strauss's waltzes played a key role in the construction of twentieth-century Austrian identity. Using press coverage from the centennial celebration of Strauss's ...
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