!!!Strauß, Johann, Vater

Strauss, Johann, the Elder, b. Vienna, March 14, 1804, 
d. Vienna, Sept. 25, 1849, important composer, violinist and 
musical director of the Biedermeier period, father of Johann  Strauss 
the Younger, Josef  Strauss and Eduard  Strauss. He and J.  Lanner 
created a new form of the waltz, the Viennese  waltz, which developed 
into the most popular dance of the era. Started as a member of the 
dance orchestra of M. Pamer, where he met J. Lanner, whose orchestra 
he joined in 1819. 1825 founded his own dance band, which he expanded 
to a large orchestra and with which he embarked on concert tours to 
Germany, Paris and London from 1833 onwards; 1846 appointed Director 
of the Imperial Court Balls, a title especially created for him. His 
"Radetzky March" is popular to this day.

!Works
152 waltzes, 32 quadrilles, 24 galops, 18 marches, 13 polkas.

!Literature
A. Witeschnik, Die Dynastie Strauss, 1958; J. Eduard, 
Johann Strauss Vater und Sohn, 1960; F. Endler, Das Walzer-Buch, 1975; 
M. Schoenherr, Lanner, Strauss, Ziehrer, 1982; P. Prange, Die 
Strauss-Dynastie, 1991; N. Linke, "Es muss einem was 
einfallen", 1992.


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