When you think of a waltz, it’s likely that your thoughts turn to Johann Strauss, the Viennese composer often dubbed ‘The ...

Best known for his rousing waltz "The Blue Danube", which became Austria's unofficial national anthem, many of his 500 dance pieces live on in Vienna's roaring ball season.

Vienna is hosting a year-long 200th birthday party for Johann Strauss II, celebrating the composer who gave the Austrian ...

They’re biographic notes for Johann Strauss, father and son ... and arguably Strauss’s most famous composition – The Blue Danube Waltz. “The way it’s played is completely wrong ...

Live from Vienna, Petroc Trelawny presents a concert marking a year of celebration commemorating the 200th anniversary of Johann Strauss ... By the Beautiful Blue Danube and the foot-stamping ...

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 ...

Johann Strauss II was born in 1825 and two centuries ... we are sending ‘By the Beautiful Blue Danube’ in the direction of the space probe that is already traveling through interstellar ...