Johann Strauss Senior is known as 'the father of the waltz', though it was his son, 21 years his junior, who earned the title 'the Waltz King'. Strauss's mother died when he was seven and his father ...

Even 200 years after the birth of Austria's world-famous "waltz king" Johann Strauss II -- widely revered like a modern-day ...

2025 is a special year for the Austrian city of Vienna, as it celebrates 200 years since the birth of Johann Strauss II on October 25th, 1825. Throughout the year, the city is marking the ...

This year, the Austrian capital is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Strauss Jr., who ended up ...

That’s how the dynasty began. (It died out in 1939 with the death of Johann Strauss III, son of Eduard, one of Johann II’s brothers.) Johann I had six children by his wife Anna – Johann, Josef, Nelli, ...

A view of the Johann Strauss monument in Vienna's Stadtpark, created by artist Edmund von Helmer. The Vienna Philharmonic is to play Johann Strauss' "The Blue Danube" in the Austrian capital on ...