Johann Strauss II composed over 500 waltzes, polkas and other kinds of dance music. This earned him the name "The Waltz King." Strauss' waltz "The Blue Danube" is considered to be one of the most ...

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 ...

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

Show more Show less Johann Strauss II's persistent popularity ... frantically jumping up and down A score of the waltz 'On the Beautiful Blue Danube', pictured at the Johann Strauss Museum in ...

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 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 ...

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. The Deep Space ...

Best known for his rousing waltz "The Blue Danube", which became ... like that," Eduard Strauss told AFP. "Life had to be earned," said the retired judge, 69. Johann made his debut at the age ...

Even 200 years after the birth of Austria's world-famous "waltz king" Johann Strauss II -- widely ... Best known for his rousing waltz "The Blue Danube", which became Austria's unofficial ...

He was a mama's boy," he said. A score of the waltz 'On the Beautiful Blue Danube', pictured at the Johann Strauss Museum in Vienna. Photo: AFP When his father died in 1849, the younger Strauss took ...