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Pages in category "Strauss family" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Johann Strauss I; Johann Strauss III; Johann Strauss II;
Johann Strauss I, 1835 lithograph by Josef Kriehuber. Johann Baptist Strauss I (/ s t r aʊ s /; German: [ˈjoːhan bapˈtɪst ˈʃtʁaʊs]; 14 March 1804 – 25 September 1849), also known as Johann Strauss Sr., the Elder or the Father (German: Johann Strauß Vater), was an Austrian composer of the Romantic Period.
Strauss, Strauß, or Straus is a common Germanic surname. Outside Germany and Austria Strauß is usually spelled Strauss (the letter "ß" is not used in the German-speaking part of Switzerland). In classical music, "Strauss" most commonly refers to Richard Strauss or Johann Strauss II.
Levi Strauss was born to a Jewish family in Buttenheim on February 26, 1829, in the Franconia region of the Kingdom of Bavaria in the German Confederation. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was the son of Hirsch Strauss and Hirsch’s second wife, Rebecca Strauss (née Haas).
Strauss claims to be a descendant of Austrian composer Johann Strauss through her father, [36] although she is not listed on Johann Strauss's known family-tree. The site does however state that "[i]llegitimate children, like the descendants of Johann Strauss I. and Emilie Trampusch, are - as a rule - not part of this diagram". [37]
Strauss also conducted from the violin in the style of the Vorgeiger and of his family. In 1903, he elevated the Strauss family to a new age of development when the Deutsche Grammophon AG of Germany recorded his conducting of the Johann Strauss Orchestra on eight single-sided records of works by his family. Principally, he was the first ...
Strauss was born into a Catholic family in St Ulrich near Vienna (now a part of Neubau), Austria, on 25 October 1825, to the composer Johann Strauss I and his first wife, Maria Anna Streim. His paternal great-grandfather was a Hungarian Jew – a fact which the Nazis, who lionised Strauss's music as "so German", later tried to conceal. [ 2 ]
Eduard Strauss successfully filed a court action against Ziehrer for the improper and misleading use of his name, but Ziehrer would eventually surpass the Strauss family in popularity in Vienna, particularly after the deaths of his more talented brothers, Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss. Their rivalry was to extend until the Strauss ...