In light-hearted movements, Nézet-Séguin traded smiles with first violins, fingers fluttering in tandem with their trills.

The Vienna Philharmonic is to play Johann Strauss' "The Blue Danube" in the Austrian capital on May 31, with the concert ...

It had been a decade and a year since the Vienna Philharmonic came our way to remind us how, for this storied ensemble of like-minded musicians, the medium can be magically both the message and the ...

The signal will travel forever through space at the speed of light, the fastest possible speed in our universe at 299,792 km/s. Incidentally, the Viennese will be able to watch the historic ...

To celebrate the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II, the Vienna Tourist Board, in collaboration with Jung von Matt DONAU, has launched a campaign titled `Waltz into Space`. The campaign will send ...

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

The Waltz King's Blue Danube was left out of the 'Golden Records' attached to the Voyager probes in the 1970s. The city of ...

The 160 debutantes at the 2025 Vienna Opera Ball wore Swarovski tiaras and their escorts wore Swarovski tie pins on their ...

Strauss senior died in 1849, and has since been celebrated mainly for his Radetzky March. He actually published a total of 251 works, including 152 waltzes, had his own highly successful dance ...

In 1829 he became musical director at the Sperl, the largest dance hall in Vienna. He had six children, of whom three survived infancy and went on to become dance musicians. Johann Strauss II was his ...

From its 18th century roots, Vienna’s celebrated ball season has evolved and now involves teenagers learning to waltz by ...

The Vienna Philharmonic will perform the famous "Blue Danube" waltz, composed by Johann Strauss the Younger, in a special ...