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 ...

Did you know? Johann Strauss I forbade his children to become musicians, knowing only too well the tough lifestyle of those in the music business ... but they went on to follow him into the business ...

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 ...

Dances for each of the four element have been choreographed to different pieces of classical music including JS Bach, Karl Jenkins, Aaron Copland, Johann Strauss, Claude Debussy and John Adams.