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 ...

Like many eventual conservatives, the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) began as a radical, effectively reinventing the orchestral tone poem in the late 19th century, then testing the limits of ...

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 ...

From that point on, all Strauss’s music would have a literary or philosophic outline. By the turn of the century Strauss was recognised not only among the most important and provocative composers of ...

The Madison Symphony Orchestra will explore the legacy of two influential composers this weekend through their final works.

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

and of the music of some of the modern-day composers. This classic of the late Romantic choral repertoire is very rarely performed in concert, due to its extreme technical difficulty. It requires ...

What better way to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of a world-renowned composer than to ensure his music has a ...

Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his local debut in Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto, followed by a fantasia on Arabella conceived ...

A view of the Johann Strauss monument in Vienna's Stadtpark, created by artist Edmund von Helmer. The Vienna Philharmonic is to play Johann Strauss' "The Blue Danube" in the Austrian capital on ...

In this short film Howard Goodall looks at how musicians such as Dmitri Shostakovich and Richard Strauss ... that composers work in can have a massive influence on their music.

His ambition was to play the kind of entertainment music he had grown up with and he set about ... and although they soon went their separate ways, Strauss the composer and conductor was firmly ...