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

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 ...

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 ...

You could spill vast rivers of blue Danube ink try to encapsulate the enduring brilliance of Vienna and all that it has ...

it was “the river of exquisite stricken cities of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire,” the “Blue Danube Waltz” of Johann Strauss, the Holocaust and “the clanging into place of the Iron ...

To be led by resident conductor Gerard Salonga, the 8pm New Year’s Concert will pay homage to Johann Strauss ... the second most popular Strauss waltz after The Blue Danube; its title reflects ...

This capital city, set on the banks of the Danube River ... opened House of Strauss, where the waltz king once played. In 2025 Vienna will celebrate the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II ...

It’s also a gas. Few filmmakers would be ballsy enough to swipe one of cinema’s most famous — and parodied — pieces of music, Strauss’ “Blue Danube” waltz, forever synonymous with ...

The use of classical music, which combines the traditional tunes of Johann Strauss's "The Blue Danube" waltz with the unconventional "Waves of the Danube" by Iosif Ivanovici, seems to manifest the ...