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

Even 200 years after the birth of Austria's world-famous "waltz king" Johann ... "The Blue Danube", which is featured in the prestigious Vienna New Year's concert every year. Although Strauss ...

and in particular the great swirling tune that has become the country's unofficial national anthem - Johann Strauss II's An ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 (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 ...