PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Johann Strauss
(1825–1899)
Austrian composer Johann Strauss surpassed his father, Johann Strauss the Elder's popularity and productivity, becoming known as the "Waltz King."
Johann Strauss, often referred to as Johann Strauss II, was born on October 25, 1825, in Vienna, Austria.
His father, Johann Strauss the Elder, was a self-taught musician who established a musical dynasty in Vienna, writing waltzes, galops, polkas and quadrilles and publishing more than 250 works.
Johann the Younger went on to write more than 500 musical compositions, 150 of which were waltzes, and he surpassed both his father's productivity and popularity.
Compositions such as The Blue Danube helped establish Strauss as "the Waltz King" and earned him a place in music history. He died in Vienna in June 1899.
Strauss was diagnosed with Pleura-pneumonia, and on June 3, 1899 he died in Vienna, at the age of 73. He was buried in the Zentralfriedhof. At the time of his death, he was still composing his ballet Aschenbrödel
His mother and brother Josef died around the same time, and his wife died of a heart attack in 1878. Strauss married two more times and remained productive right up until his final days
He was working on a ballet, Cinderella, when a respiratory illness turned into pneumonia and caused his death, on June 3, 1899, in Vienna.
His popular sheet music:
The Blue Danube Waltz
