Anyone hearing that the San Antonio Symphony Strauss Festival concert Friday night revolved around waltz music might have expected to hear pieces by Johann Strauss II of the 1800s. Nope. “Blue Danube” ...

His waltzes were a hit from Russia to the US — and female fans swooned over him. And yet, there was also a darker side to Johann Strauss, who is being celebrated in a series of performances in Vienna.

The first operetta by Johann Strauss II took Vienna by storm at its premiere in 1871. His second followed in 1873 and his third — Die Fledermaus — in 1874. What happened to 1872? The answer comes from ...

Music ran through the veins of Johann Strauss II and – despite his father’s opposition – he went on to compose many of the ...

Celebrate the bicentenary of The Waltz King with music by Strauss, Suppé, Sullivan, Bernstein, Offenbach, Lehár and more.

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Johann Strauss, seen here circa 1868, wrote what is probably the most famous waltz of all time: "The Blue Danube." (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Johann Strauss II, known as "The Waltz King," helped ...

As a young boy in the Netherlands, Rieu would watch as his father conducted the Maastricht Symphony Orchestra. And it impressed the budding violinist how the audience reaction shifted every time his ...

Last week the municipality of Vienna seized the estate, the royalty rights, the personal relics of one of its most cherished citizens, Johann Strauss, the “Waltz King.” The city’s action seemed to be ...