In 1865, Johann Herbeck, choirmaster of the Vienna Men’s Choral Society, commissioned Strauss to write a choral work; due to the composer’s other commitments ... Twenty-three years later, Franz von ...

Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was ...

Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz has finally made it into space, nearly a half-century after missing a ride on NASA's Voyagers.

Like many eventual conservatives, the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949 ... s voices and he seems in excelsis here. His ...

Only a few weeks later Strauss remarried, this time to the actress ‘Lili’ Dittrich. This less-than-happy arrangement survived only four years – Lili eventually went off with Franz Steiner, a theatre ...

The classical piece will be beamed into the cosmos as it’s performed by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. The celestial send-off ...

is checking other graves in the cemetery of such great Viennese composers as Ludwig von Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Arnold Schoenberg. Strauss was known as "The Waltz King." His "Blue Danube ...

The Department of Music at Hope College will celebrate composer Richard Strauss’ 160th ... The works being performed are Strauss’ “Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Op. 28 (arr. Franz Hasenöhrl),” ...

The Story Of The Waltz Kings. Today Donald Macleod charts the rise of Johann Strauss I and the emergence of the waltz, from a rustic village dance into an elegant art-form sweeping Europe.

Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was ...