Vienna is hosting a year-long 200th birthday party for Johann Strauss II, celebrating the composer who gave the Austrian ...

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 ...

Even 200 years after the birth of Austria's world-famous "waltz king" Johann Strauss II -- widely revered like a modern-day pop star during his lifetime -- his music has lost none of its magic.

Johann Strauss II was born in 1825 and two centuries later he is the result of a groundbreaking decision to correct what the Vienna Tourist Board and the European Space Agency (ESA) are calling an ...

He had six children, of whom three survived infancy and went on to become dance musicians. Johann Strauss II was his eldest child. He started his own orchestra in 1844, which came to rival his ...

In honor of the 120th anniversary of Chinese cinema, this year's festival will stage a special section, featuring a concert series, Tribute to 120 Years of Chinese Cinema. Hosted at the Beijing ...

To be led by resident conductor Gerard Salonga, the 8pm New Year’s Concert will pay homage to Johann Strauss II, “the Waltz King”. The concert will open with Strauss’ most famous operetta ...

That’s how the dynasty began. (It died out in 1939 with the death of Johann Strauss III, son of Eduard, one of Johann II’s brothers.) Johann I had six children by his wife Anna – Johann, Josef, Nelli, ...