Johann Strauss II
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Johann Baptist Strauss II, also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger, the Son, or simply just Johann Strauss, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas, as we
Strauss in 1876
His father, Johann Strauss I, in an etching from 1835
Johann Strauss in his younger years
Strauss at the beginning of his career
Die Fledermaus
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Die Fledermaus is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874.
Johann Strauss II
…Kaiser-Walzer" (Emperor Waltz), "Tales from the Vienna Woods", "Frühlingsstimmen" (Voices of Spring), and the "Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka". Among his operettas, Die Fledermaus and Der Zigeunerbaron are the best known. Strauss was the son of Johann Strauss I and his first wife Maria Anna Streim. The two younger brothers, Josef…
Johann Strauss II
Die Fledermaus, Düsseldorf, 1954
Poster for the first French production, La Tzigane, an adaptation of two Strauss operettas