What nationality is Johann Strauss?

Johann Strauss (1825-1899).

Austrian composer, conductor and violinist. Born in Vienna to a ** family. Same name as father.

Little Strauss was very fond of ** since he was a child. I was influenced by my father. Strauss the Elder was the orchestrator of the court round ballroom, and he also knew how to compose, and became famous in Europe.

But the elder Strauss knows that the competition in the world, especially in the light world, is fierce, and it is not easy to succeed. At the age of 7, he composed a waltz and studied the violin at the opposition. After graduating from high school, his father enrolled him in a technical school, however, he was determined to make it to the top of the world.

Fortunately, his mother quietly bought him a musical instrument and gave him money to study. When the father found out, he was furious, reprimanded the mother, and made trouble to the point where the husband and wife separated. After graduating from technical school, he worked in a bank as a job that he was bored with and had to do.

At the age of 19, he conducted performances of his father's music and his own works in Vienna, during which his father's music was still very successful, and his own works returned six times to great acclaim. This successful performance decided the fate of Strauss Jr. After that, his father no longer objected to his determination to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the family.

After his father's death, he became his own conductor and composer, leading the orchestra on tour through Europe and all the way to Russia. In 1863 he was appointed conductor of the court waltz. His most famous works include more than 120 Viennese waltzes, including "The Beautiful Blue Danube", "The Artist's Life", "Song of Wine and Women", "Viennese Temperament", "Tales of the Vienna Woods", "Vienna Sweets" and "The Sound of Spring".

He also composed more than 120 other dance songs such as "Thunder and Lightning". In 1870, after the age of 45, he wrote 16 operettas, such as: "The Bat", "The Roman Carnival", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", "The Baron of Gypsy", etc., which laid the foundation for the formation of Viennese operetta.

Vienna, Austria. Johann Strauss the elder was particularly disgusted with Johann Strauss Jr.'s learning, and hoped that he would not get up early and write music in the evening, and that he would become a great Austrian banker. But Johann Strauss Jr. secretly learned from Amun, who played the violin, behind the back of Johann Strauss Sr.

If the old Johann Strauss knew, the consequences could be imagined.

Johann Strauss the Elder was born in Vienna on March 14, 1804. His grandfather, Wolf, was a Hungarian who originally lived in Leopoldstad, also on the banks of the Danube, not too far from Vienna. His father, Franz, played the violin, and the family moved to Vienna, where Johann Strauss the Elder was influenced by his father to play the violin in elementary school, and later to study with violinist Igraz von Wheeli at the Vienna Opera.

After 1817, he played the viola in the popular dance band led by Michael Panpe. In 1819 he played the piano in Josef Lanner's Viennese Waltz Ensemble, sometimes as conductor. In 1825, when he married Maria Anna Streim and had three sons, he left Le Lanna to form his own orchestra and write many pieces for it.

Johann Strauss the Elder died in Vienna on September 25, 1849, at the age of forty-five.

** The size of the world Strauss is paternity.

The father is the big Strauss, and the son is the little Strauss, and the words "big" and "small" here are added by later generations. For both father and son were called John. In order to distinguish them, they had to add the words "big" and "small" in front of their names.

Johann Strau Jr. and his two younger brothers, Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss, were also famous. But John Jr. is the most accomplished and famous of the entire family. and made a great contribution to the popularity of the Viennese waltz in the 19th century.

Strauss the Great had the same name as his eldest son, Johann Strauss the Younger, so he was called Johann Strauss the Elder. He wrote waltzes all his life, as well as gallop and polkas, but none more popular than the Radetzky March.

Character stories

In the Johann Strauss family, the younger Johann Strauss is the most respected in the world, and the old Johann Strauss became depressed in the later period precisely because his son's light was too strong and his reputation overshadowed him, and he was also unpopular abroad.

In fact, the shape of the Johann Strauss family is dramatic, after the elder Johann Strauss married his wife Anna and gave birth to three children, due to the long hours of performing outside, the old Johann Strauss often did not come home at night, and found a new love outside, and finally the old Strauss broke off relations with the family.

In order to take revenge on old Johann Strauss, Anna saved money and used all the money she saved to provide for her three children to study**, among which Johann Strauss Jr. had the best talent, and finally through a series of efforts, she finally surpassed her father in reputation, even if she supported the rebel army in the Vienna Uprising, she was still sought after after the failure of the uprising. On the other hand, Johann Strauss the Elder was ostracized at every turn, and he continued to do so even after leaving the country.

The father is the big Strauss, and the son is the little Strauss, and the words "big" and "slow down the small" are added by later generations. For both father and son were called John. In order to distinguish them, they had to add the words "big" and "small" in front of their names.

Johann Strauss and Johann Strauss Sr. were father and son.

Johann Strauss the Elder (the father of waltzes) had three sons. The eldest son Johann Strauss (king of waltzes), the second son Josef Strauss (waltz Schubert), and the third son Eduard Strauss (pretty Eddie).

Johann Strauss the Elder wrote more than 150 waltzes, dozens of polkas and marches during his lifetime. Johann Strauss the Elder is known as the "Father of Waltz Celebration".