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 ...

Bicentenary of the birth of the great Johann Strauss, an incredibly successful composer, best known for his Viennese waltzes ...

From 2016. Show more Rainer Hersch champions the most popular waltz Johann Strauss ever wrote – the Blue Danube. In Vienna, he hits the tourist trail and finds that everyone knows it ...

Johann Strauss Senior is known as 'the father of the waltz', though it was his son, 21 years his junior, who earned the title 'the Waltz King'. Strauss's mother died when he was seven and his father ...