Strauss Ii, J.: Most Famous Waltzes, Polkas and Marches, Vol. 2

Featuring

Ondrej Lenárd
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Johann Strauss II (Jr.)
Eduard Strauss
Josef Strauss
Johann Strauss I (Sr.)

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Notable Performances

In 1872, Johann Strauss, Jr. conducted an orchestra of 2000 musicians with 20,000 singers in Boston for the World Peace Jubilee, an event he considered "mercifully unrepeatable."

Composer Biography

Johann Strauss, Jr., the most famous of the Strauss composers, studied violin in secret with his mother's encouragement, as his father intended him for a career as a banker.

Composer Biography

Josef Strauss, another composer on this album and brother to Johann, Jr., was trained as an architect and engineer and even invented a machine for sweeping the streets of Vienna.

Composer Biography

Eduard Strauss, the youngest of the Strauss brothers and a composer on this album, destroyed much of the Strauss orchestras' music by burning cart-loads of scores and orchestral parts in 1907.

Compositional Technique

Johann Strauss, Sr. developed a system of collaboration with flautist Fahrbach to compose new music, starting from a first violin part and adding other instrumental lines in stages.

Composer Biography

Johann Strauss, Sr., the father of the three other Strauss composers on this album, was orphaned and apprenticed to a book-binder, but earned money as a musician during his apprenticeship.