Johann Strauss - Vienna Waltz

One wonderful waltz of Johann Strauss
Johann Strauss II (October 25, 1825 -- June 3, 1899; also known as fully Johann Baptist Strauss, and Johann Strauss, Jr. was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as "The Waltz King", and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century.
Strauss was born in St. Ulrich (now a part of Neubau), the son of Johann Strauss I, another composer of dance music. His father did not wish him to become a composer, but rather a banker; however, the son defied his father's wishes, and went on to study music with the composer Joseph Drechsler and the violin with Anton Kollmann, the ballet répétiteur of the Vienna Court Opera. Strauss had two younger brothers, Josef and Eduard Strauss, who became composers of light music as well, although they were never as well-known as their elder brother.
Some of Johann Strauss's most famous works include The Blue Danube, Vienna Waltz, Kaiser-Walzer, Tales from the Vienna Woods, the Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka, and the Pizzicato Polka. Among his operettas, Die Fledermaus and Der Zigeunerbaron are the most well-known.

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[angelexa1]

That pearl of music is named Wiener Blut aka Vienna Waltz

[worras2007]

I am still trying to comprehend as why this waltz music was at first intended to be banned and/or considered low level "pop music" of those times...I think that those people who told that waltz is low level cheap music, would rise from the dead if they hear what pop music is today :)

[Ignauhak]

@pspence The fact that a comparitively modest ballroom dance such as waltz was ever thought risque when you think about the grinding done in modern nightclubs shows how conservative & prudish society was back then.........

I think personally we need such dances like this to help people learn to touch one another with respect, because physical contact is a vital element of our growth. We must somehow regain our comfort with it.

It's beautiful :o)

[Zofijka1000]

NAJPIĘKNIEJSZY WALC NA ŚWIECIE!...

[alfacobra1]

@metalfrost i noticed to :P

[suzana244]

Yes!

[d123alexandro]

NOSSA QUE LINDO

[mihaljnadj]

bravo....



[richiemayne]

@worras2007 Your comment is seeped in irony aha.

[113Chris1]

So peaceful, I love Rap, Rock n Roll, but man this is REAL music....this and Childish Gambino!!

[pspence]

@worras2007 Waltz music was thought to be very risque because the men and women would be dancing very closely and touching each other throughout the dance, unlike previously popular dances where a number of partners would be had and the amount of contact was low compared to waltzing.

[TheGuardianizz]

Does anyone reccognise the picture at 1:28? Is it some sort of ball, a debutante ball or a dance competition?