Full name: Johann Strauss II
Born: 1825-1899
Nationality: Austrian
Johann Strauss the Younger, the most famous and enduringly successful of nineteenth-century light-music composers, was born in Vienna on 25 October 1825. His father, Johann Strauss the Elder, was by that time well on his way to becoming Europe’s uncrowned king of dance music; indeed, it was only w ith Strauss senior’s untimely death in 1849 that the younger man could advance his own musical standing in his native Vienna.
Works Include
- The Blue Danube
- Die Fledermaus
- The Gypsy Baron