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 II, in particular, had a way of going far ... Who else but Hitch would have the young Strauss, working in a bakery, finding his inspiration for “The Blue Danube” among baking ...

"Without the father there would be no son, not only biologically, but musically," says Professor Eduard Strauss, Johann II's ...

He had six children, of whom three survived infancy and went on to become dance musicians. Johann Strauss II was his eldest child. He started his own orchestra in 1844, which came to rival his ...

That’s how the dynasty began. (It died out in 1939 with the death of Johann Strauss III, son of Eduard, one of Johann II’s brothers.) Johann I had six children by his wife Anna – Johann, Josef, Nelli, ...