From 2016. Show more Rainer Hersch champions the most popular waltz Johann Strauss ever wrote – the Blue Danube. In Vienna, he hits the tourist trail and finds that everyone knows it ...

Austrian composer Johann Strauss II was born in Vienna on October 25, 1825. World famous for his Viennese waltzes, including 'The Blue Danube,' Strauss is one of the defining figures in 19th ...

Famous for his iconic waltz The Blue Danube, Die Fledermaus is undoubtedly Johann Strauss’s most popular opera, renowned for ...

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 ...

Johann Strauss II now combined both orchestras and for the rest ... In 1872 he was invited to America to conduct his Blue Danube for the colossal fee of $100,000 for 14 performances (at one concert he ...

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra performs a varied programme of Viennese music, beginning with the Blue Danube Waltz from the waltz-king himself, Johann Strauss II. Then the Orchestra is joined ...

Audiences can expect famous pieces such as The Blue Danube, an iconic symbol of Vienna and of Johann Strauss. The concerts on February 15 at the Nicosia Municipal Theatre and on February 16 at ...