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 ...

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 ...

as it celebrates 200 years since the birth of Johann Strauss II on October 25th, 1825. Throughout the year, the city is ...

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

Reality TV plot lines? Nope. They’re biographic notes for Johann Strauss, father and son, both esteemed classical music composers and performers who took 19th-century Vienna by storm and left it ...

The French composer Hector Berlioz once commented that "Vienna without Strauss is like Austria without the Danube". But he ...

The concert marks the beginning of a special year of celebration commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Strauss II. A selection of the composer’s most popular works is ...

TEHRAN-Tehran Symphony Orchestra (TSO) will perform its first concert in spring at Vahdat Hall in Tehran on April 16.

Johann II’s grandfather was a humble innkeeper on the ... and although they soon went their separate ways, Strauss the composer and conductor was firmly established with the Vienna public. Before long ...