Johann
Strauss Jr. (1825-1899)
Johann Strauss Jr. was born on
the 25th of October 1825, as the first son of Johann Strauss
Sr. Although his father, a famous musician himself, forbid
him a musical career, he rather cared for violin lessons,
than his schoolwork. In 1844 he performed his first concert
at the Dommayer in Hietzing and soon, he was the most dangerous
competitor to his father.
When his father died in 1849, Strauss Jr. had already established
himself as the Viennese Waltz King. He conquered big crowds
of fans with his tours through Europe and America and trigged
a world wide Strauss hysteria.
Jaque Offenbachs operettas inspired Johann Jr. to trift towards
Stagework himself titeling his work as comical operas. His
first operetta "Die Fledermaus" had its premiere
in 1871, and in 1874 he released "Der Zigeunerbaron".
He was married three times, he wrote 17 operettas and an uncountable
amount of waltzes and his "Schöne Blaue Donau"
is kind of an unoffizial anthem for Austria to this day.
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