Eventually he ran six orchestras running simultaneously. With his assistant conductors, copyists, librarians, publicists and booking agents, the Strauss music business was a highly lucrative concern.

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 ...

Following Strauss I's death, Strauss II merged the two orchestras. Did you know? Johann Strauss I forbade his children to become musicians, knowing only too well the tough lifestyle of those in the ...

A view of the Johann Strauss monument in Vienna's Stadtpark, created by artist Edmund von Helmer. The Vienna Philharmonic is to play Johann Strauss' "The Blue Danube" in the Austrian capital on ...

A modest and affable old-school gent, Sawallisch prided himself on these qualities and on the longevity of his devotion to one company especially: he was music director of the Bavarian State Opera for ...

Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his local debut in Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto, followed by a fantasia on Arabella conceived ...

It goes without saying that Nita Strauss knows a thing or two about good guitar riffs, and recently the Alice Cooper electric guitar hero sat down with Guitar World to run through the five riffs ...

What better way to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of a world-renowned composer than to ensure his music has a truly universal audience. Johann Strauss II was born in 1825 and two ...

During her chat with Guitar World (posted to YouTube on March 1), Strauss went over five guitar ... and when I was growing up and getting into heavy music, I was always really drawn by these ...

Her voice echoed throughout the hall with power and control, which left concertgoers entranced by Strauss’s enchanting harmonies. The orchestra supported Majeski completely. Soloists from the ...