Light music
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Light music is a less-serious form of Western classical music, which originated in the 18th and 19th centuries and continues today. Its heyday was in the mid‑20th century. The style is through-compose
The Scarborough Spa Orchestra, the last surviving professional seaside orchestra, giving a concert of light music in August 2009.
The cover of Eric Coates's autobiography, featuring a facsimile of a motif in his Knightsbridge March. Coates is often considered the "King of Light Music"
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
Light music
…operettas of composers such as Franz von Suppé or Sir Arthur Sullivan; the Continental salon and parlour music genres; and the waltzes and marches of Johann Strauss II and his family. The Straussian waltz became a common light music composition (note for example Charles Ancliffe's "Nights of Gladness" or Felix Godin's…
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