Even 200 years after the birth of Austria's world-famous "waltz king" Johann ... "The Blue Danube", which is featured in the ...

The Vienna Philharmonic is to play Johann Strauss' "The Blue Danube" in the Austrian capital on May 31, with the concert transmitted to the Voyager 1 probe in interstellar space. Helmut Fohringer ...

Johann II’s grandfather was a ... publicists and booking agents, the Strauss music business was a highly lucrative concern. In 1872 he was invited to America to conduct his Blue Danube for the ...

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

They’re biographic notes for Johann Strauss ... unofficial anthem of Austria – and arguably Strauss’s most famous composition – The Blue Danube Waltz. “The way it’s played is ...

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

Johann Strauss II (1825–1899) is known as the 'Waltz King'. He was the greatest of all Viennese dance music composers. Life and Music The young Strauss had started composing and directing his own ...