Why the waltz? What gives with this senescent New Year's tradition of still waltzing 200 years since the birth of the dance's greatest maker, Johann Strauss II? One simple answer is that this ...

Why the waltz? What gives with this senescent New Year’s tradition of still waltzing 200 years since the birth of the dance’s greatest maker, Johann Strauss II? One simple answer is that this ...

The Waltz King, born in Vienna, led a vibrant life in three-quarter time: from the initial rivalry with his father, the composition of the first hit in music history, to his status as a pop star ...

From 2016. Show more Rainer Hersch champions the most popular waltz Johann Strauss ever wrote – the Blue Danube. In Vienna, he hits the tourist trail and finds that everyone knows it ...

Johann Strauss Senior is known as 'the father of the waltz', though it was his son, 21 years his junior, who earned the title 'the Waltz King'. Strauss's mother died when he was seven and his father ...

And standing here at Tanzschule Elmayer, one of Vienna’s greatest dance schools, a strange but certain sense of well-being washes over me. Despite the fact that it’s almost time to waltz.

Markus Poschner and the Bruckner Orchestra paid virtuoso homage to the "Waltz King" Johann Strauss at the Brucknerhaus. Matthias Achleitner and the Upper Austria Philharmonic Orchestra set off ...

Famous for his iconic waltz The Blue Danube, Die Fledermaus is undoubtedly Johann Strauss’s most popular opera, renowned for ...

That’s how the dynasty began. (It died out in 1939 with the death of Johann Strauss III, son of Eduard, one of Johann II’s brothers.) Johann I had six children by his wife Anna – Johann, Josef, Nelli, ...

Vienna’s tourism sector reported its strongest ever performance in 2024, with 18.9 million bednights (up 9% on 2023) and ...