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	Johann Strauss II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Son of the composer Johann Strauss I, and brother to the composers Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss, Johann II is the most famous of the family.
		Strauss was not granted a divorce by the Roman Catholic church and therefore changed religion and nationality and became a citizen of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha on January 28, 1887.
		Johann Strauss II died from pneumonia in Vienna in 1899 at the age of 74 and was buried there in the Zentralfriedhof.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johann_Strauss_II (1944 words)

	Johann Strauss I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johann Strauss I was the father of Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss.
		Johann Strauss II often played his father's works and openly declared his admiration of them although it was no secret to the Viennese that their rivalry was intense, with the press at that time fuelling it.
		Johann Strauss I himself refused to play ever again at the Dommayer's Casino who offered his son his conducting debut and was to tower over his son during his lifetime in terms of career advancement although Strauss II was to eclipse him in terms of popularity in the classical repertoire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johann_Strauss_I (1020 words)

	Music in Vienna - Johann Strauss jun.: Biography
		The publisher Haslinger assigned Johann Strauss with to write annually 5 to 8 waltzes, 3 to 5 quadrills, 3 to 5 polkas and 2 to 4 marches.
		It was not unusual that Strauss directed the first pieces on one event and hurried then to another performance, where he directed the rest of the concert by replacing the subdirector.
		Johann Strauss jun. recovered after cures in summer 1853 and 1854 and signed an concert performance contract for five months to the Russian yard in Pawlowsk, 30km outside of pc.
	www.vienna.cc /e/music/strauss_jun_biography.htm (1470 words)

	Music in Vienna - Johann Strauss: Curious
		Johann Strauss sr.'s grandfather Johann Michael Strauss was a baptized Jew from Hungary.
		This waltz (op.314) by Johann Strauss II is also known as Donauwalzer (Danube waltz) and is said to be Austrian's second hymn.
		On Juni 29, 1872 the "Jubilee Waltz" was performed by Johann Strauss jun. to the 100.Geburtstag of the USA in Colosseum in Boston/USA.
	www.vienna.cc /e/music/strauss_curios.htm (464 words)

	Strauss Johan English
		His father, Johann Sr., who had already established a reputation as "Father of the Waltz", had decided that one musician in the family was enough and went to great lengths to keep his sons from following in his footsteps.
		Strauss encouraged his sons to learn the piano, he intended Johann for a banking career.
		Johann was madly in love with her for the first 10 years and deeply devoted, although not faithful to her for the remaining 5 years.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /strauss_johan_english.html (3193 words)

	Johann Strauss (II)
		Strauss was ill throughout 1891-3, but wrote his first opera, Guntram, which was a modest success but a failure later in Munich.
		Strauss followed it with Ariadne auf Naxos, at first linked with a Moliere play, later revised as prologue (behind the scenes at a private theatre) and opera, mixing commedia dell'arte and classical tragedy to a delicate, chamber orchestral accompaniment.
		When Germany was defeated, and her opera houses destroyed, Strauss wrote an intense lament, Metamorphosen, for 23 solo strings; this is one of several products of a golden 'Indian summer', which include an oboe concerto and the Four Last Songs, works in a ripe, mellow idiom, executed with a grace worthy of his beloved Mozart.
	www.musica.co.uk /composers/StraussR.htm (753 words)

	Johann Strauss, Jr. Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		His father, Johann Sr., had decided that one musician in the family was enough and went to great lengths to keep his sons from following in his footsteps.
		Johann was unable to face life alone, and only seven weeks after Jetty's death, at the age of 52 Strauss married the actress and singer Angelika "Lili" Diettrich, 30 years his junior.
		It was in the process of writing a ballet (Aschenbroedel) that he was taken ill with a respiratory ailment, developed pnumonia and died on June 3, 1899 at the age of 73 in the arms of his devoted wife, Adele.
	www.straussfestival.com /bio.html (1184 words)

	Cornerstones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Virtually synonymous with the city of Vienna itself, Johann Strauss II is author to 16 operettas as well as hundreds of waltzes, polkas, quadrilles and marches.
		It was under these circumstances that she had met Strauss and the two fell in love at first sight.
		Johann soon met his third and final wife, a recently widowed friend of the family, Adele Strauss (no relation).
	www.operaworld.com /cornerstones/fleder/fledbio.htm (841 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Culture \| Beyond the Danube (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Johann Strauss junior preluded with the overture to his three-act operetta The Bat, a colourful opening, enchantingly presented.
		Strauss junior's Annen- Polka, Opus 117, followed by the Egyptian March, Opus 335 and Acceleration Waltz, Opus 234, were all admirably performed; spirited, and energetic the maestro swayed to the tunes with nonchalant precision: his waltzes exuberant, his marches ardent and his baton remarkably entertaining.
		His eldest son, Johann Strauss junior, deservedly known as the Waltz King, produced over 400 waltzes and numerous operettas, polkas, gallops, marches and Perpetuum Mobile, as well as a ballet, Cinderella, completed by Bayer as Aschenbrodel.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/672/cu2.htm (978 words)

	Wine, Woman and Song - or: A Toast to Johann Strauss Junior and Senior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Johann Senior metamorphosed from a lowly tavern-keeper's son into one of the most well-known musicians in Vienna in the 1830s and 40s and, with Joseph Lanner, one of the most sought-after band leaders.
		Johann Junior led the waltz out of the smoke-filled cafés, restaurants and dance halls where his father used to play, and into the elegant salons of the nobility and the grand concert halls of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
		However, after Johann's death in 1899, the famous Strauss Orchestra soon ground to a halt and was disbanded in 1901.
	www.unitel.de /uhilites/010299.htm (584 words)

	StrausstheElder.html
		Johann Strauss I was born in a shabby tavern, the Good Shepherd, in a shoddy part of Vienna in 1804.
		Johann Strauss the Elder had, in essence, two families: one was legitimate and one was not.
		Johann Strauss the Younger was born in Vienna on October 25, 1825.
	teachers.edenpr.org /~rolson/ArcadiaWeb/Waltz/StraussBiographies.html (995 words)

	..:: The Tom and Jerry Online :: An Unofficial Site ::..
		Johann secretly studyed the violin with his mother's encouragement, making his first attempt at writing a waltz at 6 years of age.
		Johann's mother, Anna Strauss, died in February, brother Josef in July, and his aunt in November.
		Johann was unable to face life alone, and only seven weeks after Jetty's death, at the age of 52 Strauss married the actress and singer Angelika "Lili" Dittrich, 25 years his junior.
	www.tomandjerryonline.com /music_tunes.cfm?id=3 (1002 words)

	"The Strauss Family" (1972) (mini) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		THE STRAUSS FAMILY (1972), directed by David(s) Reid and Giles, and Peter Potter (Episode 4), is an eight part mini-series about what the title indicates, the Strauss Family.
		The legacy and lives of the Strauss family is given the soap-opera treatment (illicit affairs, jealousy, brief bedroom love scenes not reenacted to the extreme) and well written screenplay the surpasses all previous efforts on screen.
		While much of the Strauss works are heard mostly as underscoring mood pieces, the best melodies, notably "Tales of the Vienna Woods," are re-conducted for ballroom dancing sequences, all conducted by the London Symphony Orchestra.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0069639 (981 words)

	www.johann-strauss.at (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Many writers on Strauss, unfortunately even quite recent ones, tell their readers that Johann Strauss junior conducted an orchestra of 12 to 15 players.
		It is impossible to imagine that the young novice could afford the cost of having more or less a complete second orchestra sitting, as it were, on the substitutes’ bench.
		Beside that Strauss would have needed these 25 musicians – including himself, that is – to give performances of competitive standard of the works on the programme of his debut concert.
	www.johann-strauss.at /wissen/debuet_e.html (230 words)

	Brunton Theatre East Lothian Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Johann Strauss Junior, the most talented son of Johann Strauss Senior was born in the former Viennese suburb of Lerchenfeld on 25th of October 1825.
		Strauss played at Empress Elisabeth’s wedding ball and later in life he finally went off to St. Petersburg for the lucrative engagement, which was to lay the foundation of his wealth.
		Strauss conducted his most famous waltz “Blue Danube Waltz”; at the 1867 International Exposition in Paris as well as in Boston and within a few years over a million copies was printed.
	www.bruntontheatre.co.uk /webpages/news_results_full.php?id=61 (1832 words)

	Strauss J. Sr.English
		ounder of the Strauss dynasty of Viennese light music composers, Johann Strauss the Elder was the son of a Tavern keeper, Franz Strauss.
		A staple of the concert programs was the Waltz, a dance form which Strauss developed from the Landler Dance.
		The eldest and most famous was Johann II, who formed and directed his own orchestra, between 1844 and 1849, in rivalry with his father's.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /strauss_j__sr_english.html (302 words)

	Classical 102.5 WCRB - Facts and Anecdotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Johann, the elder, had taken a mistress and fathered several children with her, including another son named Johann.
		When in his twenties, Strauss Junior formed his own dance orchestra and toured Europe, in direct competition with his father's orchestra.
		When Johann Strauss Senior died in 1849, Johann junior merged the two orchestras and became the toast of Europe.
	www.wcrb.com /entertainment/facts.asp?show=9 (879 words)

	SEE Magazine: April 22nd, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The death 100 years ago of Vienna’s "Waltz King," Johann Strauss, Jr., heralded much more than the end of a century, the end of an era and the end of an age.
		In 1819, a 15-year-old Johann Strauss joined the string trio of one Joseph Lanner as their viola player.
		Eduard’s son Johann (III) attempted to resurrect the popularity by forming the Kapelle Johann Strauss Junior in Berlin in 1905, but that orchestra lasted only until the outbreak of the First World War.
	www.seemagazine.com /Issues/1999/0422/mus3.htm (583 words)

	Austria. Europe with a Difference
		Johann Strauss senior and Joseph Lanner are generally considered precursors of the genre, but this does not accurately reflect their role in the development of light music in the nineteenth century.
		Strauss senior learned the craft of bookbinding as an apprentice, and as a child became familiar with the popular music of his time in his father’s inn.
		Probably the most famous piece composed by Johann Strauss senior, who principally wrote waltzes and marches, is the ”Radetzky March”.
	homes.tiscover.com /project/oesterreich_werbung/kultur_detail...2.html?_h=kultur&id=33975&_hm=31462&_um=&_b=c2&_ks=1 (349 words)

	Allianz - Allianz in Austria Sponsors Johann Strauss Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Institute is also planning to publish the new Strauss Allianz Catalog for the works of Johann (senior), Josef, Eduard and Johann (grandson) as a thematic bibliography in 2004.
		Eduard Strauss – a Strauss descendant – is president of the Vienna Institute for Strauss Research and the honorary committee included composer Gottfried von Einem (who died in 1996).
		There was also new information to the effect that Johann Strauss (junior) was a sympathizer of the March revolution in 1848.
	www.allianz.com /azcom/dp/cda/0,,21938-44,00.html?entry=Vx (608 words)

	This is Hampshire \| CommuniGate \| CONCERT REVIEWS 2005
		Understandably, the waltzes of Johann Strauss (Junior) featured prominently throughout the evening and the tone was perfectly set from the very beginning with Penny’s beautiful interpretation of The Blue Danube, followed by the Annen Polka.
		Vienna For Aye (Schrammel) and Wiener-Damen (Schubert) were followed by another well known Strauss composition — The Emperor Waltz — and a memorable evening was concluded with the Radetzky March, composed by Johann Strauss (Senior).
		As her classical contribution, Rebecca selected the 'Artist's Life' waltz (Johann Strauss II), and the rich sound of violins and orchestra filled the hall.
	www.communigate.co.uk /hants/weos/page6.phtml (5578 words)

	The Politically Incorrect Show - 28/01/2000 - The Free Radical Online
		Strauss says, "And how!" In Mencken's words,"The essence of a Viennese waltz, and especially of a Strauss waltz, is merriment, good humor, happiness" - as opposed to Laila Harre, Phillida Carbuncle, and the Women's Studies Department at Victoria University.
		Hanslick would have been appalled to learn that no less "great and serious" a composer as Brahms autographed the fan of Johann Strauss Junior's wife with the opening measures of The Blue Danube and the words, "Alas, not by Johannes Brahms."
		I venture to say that the compositions of Johann Strauss have lured more fair young creatures to compliance than all the movie actors and white slave scouts since the fall of the Western Empire.
	www.freeradical.co.nz /content/pishow/pi000128.php (375 words)

	Alfred Hitchcock - Waltzes from Vienna (1933) \| Movie Review
		There's discord in the Strauss household as composer Johann senior (Edmund Gwenn) resents the competition from his own son.
		Johann junior (Esmond Knight) gets his big break with a commission from a wealthy countess (Fay Compton) and, hey presto, comes up with
		This tedious period drama, laced with the Waltz King's music, was an unsuitable and uncharacteristic assignment for Alfred Hitchcock and is completely devoid of even his earliest signature trademarks.
	www.leninimports.com /hitchcock_waltzes_from_vienna.html (185 words)

	BSC Music: Caffé Concerto Strauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Romanian / Italian group CAFFÈ CONCERTO STRAUSS, founded 1990 in Cesena, Italy are a homogenious ensemble of excellently educated virtuoso musicians – each of the orchestras eight members combines a deep musicality with academically based historical knowledge of the fin de siecle era.
		Their tours have led the eight virtuosos right across Europe, and they have also charmed audiences in Nigeria with their deeply European music.
		Of course this excellent little orchestra has an artistic reach that surpasses the oeuvre of Johann Strauss junior by far.
	www.bscmusic.com /prudence/artists/caffconcerto/caffe_01di.html (115 words)

	August Symphony: Viennese music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Richard Strauss: Serenade for Winds in E Flat Major, Op.
		Opening and closing with Mozart, it was interspersed with nineteenth-century works whose composers' names are forever associated with crown jewel of the Danube: Johann Strauss, Junior, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.
		Leaping ahead into the Vienna of the nineteenth century, the next offering was the exuberant "Weiner Blut" by Johan Strauss, Junior, a presentation of the elegant, carefree, and slightly decadent life enjoyed by the wealthy of the swinging city.
	www.reviewvancouver.org /VS6.html (496 words)

	What does your name mean?
		In the apocryphal Gospel of James, Saint Joachim was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of the Virgin Mary.
		Johann Gutenberg was the inventor of the printing press in the 15th century.
		Other famous bearers are German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, Austrian composers Johann Strauss and his son Johann Strauss Junior, and German novelist and poet Johann Goethe.
	website.lineone.net /~sascha1/name/j.htm (2430 words)

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