Strauss is a junior biography

The grave of Strauss Eduard son. Central cemetery, Vienna, Austria. Johann Strauss is a father - an Austrian composer, a violinist and conductor, the founder of the musical dynasty of the Strauss, the so -called "Father of the Waltz", was the son of a baptized Jew. Three of his sons - Johann, Joseph and Edward - also became famous composers. The composer's legacy has the creation of a waltz from them.

This heritage was carefully preserved by Johann Strauss as a son and published in Leipzig. Against the name of the groom, on the page of the marriage book, it was indicated: "Baptized Jew." The church registrar, who issued the above wedding, did not fail to make a note about the parents of the groom in the marriage book: "Wolf Strauss is a great-grandfather of Strauss-Father, as well as his wife, Teresia, both Jews." The founder of the legendary kind of Strauss Wolf Strauss, a native of the Jewish quarter of Budapest.

His son was born there - Johann -Michel Strauss, who turned into Catholicism. In X, the secret of Jewish origin of the idol of Austria, the entire German and the rest of the world revealed. The finds of the Viennese archivists began to be considered in fascist Germany as a source of danger to state interests. Strauss Johann Father. The results of the surveys in the Cathedral of St.

Stefan in Vienna were classified. An attempt was made to hide the Jewish roots of Johann Strauss by the father by falsification of documents. Strauss had a difficult childhood: when he was seven years old, his mother died from a fever, and five years later a ruined father drowned in the Danube.

The music of Johann Strauss was in the blood from childhood. He played masterly, at a frantic pace and with a huge temperament. Contemporaries compared him to Paganini. At 23, he scored his first orchestra. With a young musician plays in the Vienna dance quartet of Michel Pamra, and becomes an assistant to the conductor of the orchestra Joseph Lanner. The orchestra at that time played in the zucchini "At the Red Rooster" in the Vienna suburb of the Tur.

The owner of the establishment, Joseph Straim, had a daughter Anna - a big lover of music and dancing. Johann marries her, and on October 25 the first successor of the dynasty is born-Johann Strauss Jr. The first waltz, written by Johann Strauss, was sounded as the composition of Joseph Lanner. The success of the waltz gave the composer faith in his strength - he collects his orchestra, writes waltzes, polka, gallopes.

Johann Strauss received the most invitations to local holidays and for performances in other countries. By the age of 28, he became so famous that even during the cholera in Vienna, the hall was crowded during his performance. In the triumphal procession of the music of Johann Strauss, the father in Europe began in Europe. The composer was the first to present dance music to the world - before him, as art, it was not perceived.

London musical critics called him “Mozart Waltz”, “Beethoven Cotillons”, “Paganini Galopes”, “Rossini Potyrri”. In the season, dedicated to the coronation of Queen Victoria, held 72 concerts in London. Among the compositions of Johann Strauss, the Father was specially successful by the “Crying of Lorelei on the Rhine”, “hanging bridges” and other waltzes, after which Strauss soon appeared - “Radetskaya march”.

He worked to exhaustion. Therefore, he practically did not engage in and did not devote time to children. The only thing he strictly followed and demanded the same thing from Anna’s wife was that his children do not compose music and play the violin. It was possible to play piano. Once Johann found his son Johann Jr. behind a violin game. He came into terrible rage, took the violin and locked it in a chest of drawers.

Anna bought a new violin to her son. Johann Jr. not only continued to secretly improve in music, but also addicted to the violin of the brothers-Joseph and Edward. Surviving from the stage of his son became an obsessive idea for Johann Strauss. He forbade the entrepreneurs to conclude contracts with his son. For five years, the father waged war with his son.

During the revolution, they found themselves on different sides of the barricades. Strauss Jr. played Marseelus for the rebels, and his father supported the Habsburgs and composed in honor of their successes “Radetskaya march”, which later became one of the unofficial hymns of Austria. The crowns for the fact that Strauss did not support the revolution, began to ignore his concerts.

Once, in a fit of anger, he broke a bow and the next day leaned in a fever. Emilia The second wife, thinking that his disease was contagious, left Strauss of her father and left the children from the house. Upon learning that Johann Strauss was death, the ex-wife of Anna and Johann Jr. went to him, but they no longer found him alive. The great composer died of scarlet fever in Vienna on September 25, forty -five years old.

The funeral of Johann Strauss was grandiose, they were attended by about 30 thousand people. Son Johann on the grave played Mozart's “Requiem”. Each year in Europe, the famous Strauss Festival is held, dedicated to the work of Strauss.Spain, Italy, Austria, Portugal, France, Germany - enjoy magnificent waltzes, polka, marches, gallopes, overtures and arias from the operetta of the famous dynasty of composers and conductors of the 19th century - Strauzes.

Some of the works he wrote: Waltz :.