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Johann Strauss II (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger, the Son (German: Sohn), Johann Baptist Strauss, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as "The Waltz King", and was largely then responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century.
Strauss had two younger brothers, Josef and Eduard Strauss, who became composers of light music as well, although they were never as well known as their elder brother. Some of Johann Strauss' most famous works include "The Blue Danube", "Kaiser-Walzer" (Emperor Waltz), "Tales from the Vienna Woods", and the "Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka". Among his operettas, Die Fledermaus and Der Zigeunerbaron are the best known.
Strauss was admired by other prominent composers: Richard Wagner once admitted that he liked the waltz "Wein, Weib und Gesang" Op. 333. Richard Strauss (unrelated to the Strauss family), when writing his Rosenkavalier waltzes, said in reference to Johann Strauss, "How could I forget the laughing genius of Vienna?"
Johannes Brahms was a personal friend of Strauss; the latter dedicated his waltz "Seid umschlungen, Millionen!" ("Be Embraced, You Millions!"), Op. 443, to him. A story is told in biographies of both men that Strauss's wife Adele approached Brahms with a customary request that he autograph her fan. It was usual for the composer to inscribe a few measures of his best-known music, and then sign his name. Brahms, however, inscribed a few measures from the "Blue Danube", and then wrote beneath it: "Unfortunately, NOT by Johannes Brahms."
Strauss J
Johann Strauss II (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger, the Son (German: Sohn), Johann Baptist Strauss, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as "The Waltz King", and was largely then responsible for th...
J S BACH Suite No. 2 for Flutes and Strings
J C BACH Sinfonia in B flat
BEETHOVEN Leonore Overtures 1 & 3, Coriolan Overture et al
BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 - Academic Festival Overture
GRIEG Two Elegiac Melodies
LISZT Les Préludes
RAVEL Boléro
J STRAUSS II Perpetuum Mobile
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 in F minor
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 in E minor
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet – Fantasy Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Waltz from Serenade for Strings
WAGNER Tannhäuser Overture - Lohengrin Prelude
WEBER Der Freischütz, Euryanthe, Oberon - Overtures
music by Cheubini, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Suppé, Bizet, Mahler, Tchaikovsky
Studio recordings, 1926-32
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
conducted by Willem Mengelberg
RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2 (world première recording)
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished”
BORODIN Polovtsian Dances
and works by Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Brahms, J. Strauss, Sibelius and others
Studio recordings, 1924-28
Total duration: 3hr 0:20
The Cleveland Orchestra
conducted by Nikolai Sokoloff
BRAHMS
Symphony No. 2
HINDEMITH Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
R. STRAUSS Symphonia Domestica
R. STRAUSS Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier
J. STRAUSS II Three Waltzes
WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - excerpts
Studio recordings, 1937-41
Total duration: 2hr 19:12
The Philadelphia Orchestra
conducted by Eugene Ormandy
Recorded 1950-51
Total duration: 89:47
Lily Pons
Martha Lipton
Richard Tucker
Charles Kullman
John Brownlee
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
conducted by Eugene Ormandy
Recorded 20 September, 1950
Total duration: 59:19
Jan Peerce • James Melton • Robert Merrill
RCA Victor Orchestra
Robert Shaw Chorale
Fritz Reiner, conductor
ALBÉNIZ Ibéria - El Corpus en Sevilla
BACH Toccata & Fugue in D minor
BACH Two Chorales
BARBER Symphony in One Movement
BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1
BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 1
DEBUSSY Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
DEBUSSY Nuages & Fêtes
DOHNÁNYI Suite for Orchestra
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8
GLINKA Ruslan and Ludmila - Overture
HINDEMITH Mathis der Maler Symphony
HUMPERDINCK Hänsel und Gretel - Prelude
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1
RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte
RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances
SCHREKER Der Geburtstag der Infantin
SCRIABIN Symphony No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
STAROKADOMSKY Concerto for Orchestra
STRAVINSKY Firebird Suite
J. STRAUSS II Die Fledermaus - Overture
J. STRAUSS II Tales from the Vienna Woods
R. STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
R. STRAUSS Rosenkavalier Waltzes
R. STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
VIVALDI Concerto in D minor
WAGNER Die Meistersinger - excerpts
WEBER Oberon - Overture
Broadcast recordings, 1938
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Artur Rodziński
